Kodak Sponsors Graphic Design: USA’s Dimensional Digital Print Cover Contest

Through Graphic Design: USA’s (GDUSA) Dimensional Digital Print Cover Contest, sponsored by Kodak, participants can design an insert that could serve as the cover of the magazine’s September issue. GDUSA editors will choose the winners based on overall visual appearance, effective communication, and the integration of NEXPRESS Dimensional Printing System capabilities into the cover design. The winning designer of the cover will also be Kodak’s guest at Graph Expo 2010.

With the NEXPRESS Dimensional Printing System, designers can create collateral materials, point-of-sale displays, direct mail, business cards, photo products, invitations and other applications that truly stand out. Characteristics previously unattainable with digital printing, such as a 3D tactile photo surface, raised print, and distinctive textures can easily be incorporated into the design of materials, providing a look and feel that sets them apart.

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Social media offers avenues for business networking

Connecting with people on Facebook, Twitter or LinkedIn is the new way to exchange business cards. And it makes professional networking easier, fun and more personable.

You can find valuable professional contacts, interact with them and build relationships on social media — opportunities that may not be possible in person.
There are hundreds of social networks and many specifically geared to certain professions, but here are three of the most popular: Facebook, linkedin and twitter.

You can read full story here: www.sun-sentinel.com

I.R.I.S.: I.R.I.S. Unveils its Brand-New Totally Mobile Business Card Scanner

I.R.I.S specializes in optical character recognition technology and has grown up as a provider of products in the intelligent document recognition and electronic document management. I.R.I.S has revealed and demonstrated IRIScard anywhere 4, which is considered to be the very powerful business card reader. It can easily capture the contact information from business cards.

For more information, visit here: www.tradingmarkets.com During the breakout sessions of its annual convention IRISLink 2010, I.R.I.S. revealed and demonstrated the IRISCard Anywhere 4, the brand-new generation of its powerful business card reader.

Quick on The Draw to Network with Students

The Robot Gordon University UK, a professional university with an international reputation for providing education from undergraduate to Doctorate level. This year university is using latest computer technology for attracting future students. They have created quick response cards to be distributed to maths, science and computing teachers across scotland to pass on to pupils. These cards look like a normal business card with barcode displayed across the font. This code is the link to RGU's school of computing's new web page.

Read more here: www.pressandjournal.co.uk AN ABERDEEN university is hoping to attract future students with the latest computer technology.

Penpower's WorldCard Mobile Application Scans Business Cards Into the iPhone

Even though online social networking sites are becoming an important hub for creating and storing business contacts. but still business cards are still there and Penpower Inc. has come up with Worldcard Mobile Iphone application which enables digital scanning of business cards and storing into contact lists. Penpower is a leading the market for devices with built-in smart human-machine interface technologies.

Read more about this here: http://www.foxbusiness.com With the new year upon us, many business people are finding it important to get their contacts organized for the coming months. The WorldCard Mobile iPhone application from Penpower Inc. allows for the two worlds to meet, digitally scanning business cards and depositing the information into the phones contact list.

Plustek Prepping Business, Film Scanners for CES

Plustek a renowed name as an image solutions provider having business spread all over world.Plustek manufacturer of world class scanners and other imaging products. Plustek is going to introduce new scanner in upcoming 2010 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) Las Vegas. They are going to show their two new compact small scanners for small business organizations and two film scanners. The MobileOffice D428 scanner is suitable for offices/home and the color duplexing scanner has 600-dpi resolution. This scanner has an amazing speed of scanning 28 page-per-minute.

Read full news here: www.pcmag.com
Plustek will introduce four new scanners at the 2010 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas next month, including two compact small-office scanners and two film scanners for slides and negatives.

Google's latest lab experiment lets you send it photos for identification.

Google's new real time search feature, photo based search enables sending phots of business card, book cover, bar code from Android based smartphone to Google. It scans the image captured, analyzes and identifies. The information is further separated into fields. If you are using this application for business card, it puts all the information into fields and put in your google database. But there are some limitations of this application is the accuracy level, but still we know it will be enhanced by the geeks.

Read more about this here: www.computerworld.com - Computerworld - On Monday, Google announced, along with its new real-time search feature, a photo-based search it is calling Google Goggles (which is hard to say without -- sorry -- giggling). Goggles lets you send photos of a business card, book cover or even bar code from your Android-based smartphone to Google for quick identification and data manipulation.

Microsoft unveils Office 2010 public beta

Microsoft has launched office 2009 beta version and trial version is available for public. People can use and report bugs and problems. They released this in annual Professional developer Conference in Los Angeles.

You can read in detail about this on computerworld.com : As expected, Microsoft today launched its first public beta of Office 2010, posting the preview for download on its Web site. In a keynote presentation at its annual Professionals Developer Conference (PDC) in Los Angeles, Kurt DelBene, Microsoft's senior vice president of the Office business productivity group, announced the immediate availability of the Office 2010 Beta.

Quark unveils free online tool for small-business print jobs

Quark, provider of world class solution for publishing softwares helping large to small business houses. With their presence in publishing software field from more than 25 years, quark has set standards in automated multi channel publishing.

Read about the Quark's new free online tool here: http://denver.bizjournals.com/
Quark Inc. is moving into the business of producing small companies’ marketing materials and print-job ordering with a free online product it unveiled Thursday.

Do Your Business Papers Convey the Right Image?

Using right type of paper can be very helpful in putting forward good image of the organisation and the business establishment. Like business cards they should look professional else people are likely to not take your company seriously. Same way letter heads and evelopes should also be made with good quality paper.

Read full article here: http://www.americanbankingnews.com/

DYMO CardScan for Windows Mobile — From Business Card to Contact List

DYMO is a sister brand of Cardscan and is leader in providing business card reader and scanners. Most of the people nowadays are using their cell phones for capturing the business cards snap and they store it properly into a contact list. Those who have smart window camera phone can use DYMO Cardscan which automatically inserts all the information from card into proper fields.

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Digitized business cards marries low- and high-tech, now for Mac

One device, NeatDesk, a high-speed scanner that turns paper data into digital format, imports the card information into an electronic address book and is exportable to handheld devices. A slotted tray holds 10 cards at a time and can process 70 in 10 minutes.An Innovations 2009 honoree for the Design and Engineering Award from the Consumer Electronics Association, released a version compatible with Mac products last month to complement the PC.
You can easily take a digital image of business card with a camera or mobile phone and upload the photos onto a free online service called Evernote. It also stores images of notes, audios, documents, and white boards, as well as web pages, text messages, and tweets from twitter.

News published here: http://www.independent.co.uk/

Contact Information Input Software Scans Business Card Data Into ACT

Scan2crm for ACT has come up with this great way of scanning the business cards and automatically inputs the both textual data and image into contact record. This tool will speed up the process for creating contact database by automatically adding every next contact by just scanning the business card.

News published here: http://news.thomasnet.com/fullstory/566359