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Samsung and Ricoh make green list

Audiovisual vendors ranked among the world’s 100 most sustainable companies

Samsung and Ricoh are the only two audiovisual and imaging vendors named on a list of the 100 most sustainable corporations in the world, announced at the annual World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
Samsung took ninety-first place, while Ricoh came in at number 95. [...]

Tags: Agilent, BT, Capita Group, Intel, Nokia, Ricoh, Samsung, Trend Micro, Vodafon

Canon to land IT VARs in PartnerNet

Distributors delight in news that printing vendor’s reseller portal is ready for launch

Printing vendor Canon claims its new online partner portal will make IT VARs’ lives easier and more lucrative.
Launched in December, PartnerNet is now ready to become fully operational. It is divided into four areas, the first being My Zone, where partners can access [...]

Samsung emerges as world’s top tech giant

South Korea’s Samsung Electronics has emerged as the world’s biggest technology company by sales, overtaking its U.S. rival Hewlett-Packard and German industrial group Siemens, company officials said on Friday.
In a regulatory filing, Samsung reported full-year sales of 136.29 trillion won (US$117.4. billion) in 2009, exceeding HP’s sales of $114.6 billion and $109.8 billion of Siemens.
Samsung, [...]

Tags: HP, Samsung, Siemens, South Korea

Xerox gives to Haiti funds

The global printer manufacturer is to give aid to the disaster-stricken country
Global printer manufacturer Xerox is to give money to four charity aid organisations working to help with the aftermath of the devastating Haiti earthquake.
The company said that it would be giving a total of $300,000 to the relief organisations which will include $100,000 to [...]

Tags: American Red Cross, Concern Worldwide, Haiti, Medecins Sans Frontieres, xerox

Print channel in fraud alert

Met Police wants to work with channel to prevent printers being sold to fraudsters

Legislation will be drawn up to restrict print supplier behaviour if the industry fails to work with a Metropolitan Police initiative aimed at cracking down on global identity fraud.
Detective chief inspector Nick Downing, leader of the Project Genesius initiative, said selling just [...]

Tags: Fraud, Metropolitan Police, Printers, Project Genesius