documents

A Scanner for All Seasons

Lauren Goode in Product Reviews on May 7 at 6:00 am PT

For serious scanning needs, Xerox’s Mobile Scanner beats a smartphone app or pocket-sized scanner.

Seven Questions About Printing for Lexmark CEO Paul Rooke

Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on December 28, 2011 at 5:30 am PT

Lexmark may be significantly smaller by revenue than its biggest rival, but it is still able to win business away from its larger rivals — and keep those customers.

Apple Helps Devices Get Their Heads in the Cloud

Katherine Boehret in The Digital Solution on October 11, 2011 at 6:00 pm PT

Apple launches iCloud, a service designed to store and replicate documents on computers, the iPhone, iPod touch and the iPad.

Ricoh Builds a Tablet Meant to Get Some Paper Out of Your Work Life

Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on June 1, 2011 at 6:00 am PT

Ricoh, the Japanese office equipment concern, has an idea for an office tablet. And it’s not quite like any other tablet you’ve seen on the market yet.

In and Out Of Office: Putting iPads To Work

Walt Mossberg in Personal Technology on March 16, 2011 at 6:13 pm PT

A brief primer on how to get such documents into and out of an iPad, and how to view, edit and create them on the tablet.

Atrix 4G: Faux Laptop With a Phone For Brains

Walt Mossberg in Personal Technology on February 16, 2011 at 2:37 pm PT

Walt reviews the Motorola Atrix 4G Android smart phone, which acts as the brains of a small laptop device.

Texas Wants Google to Spill Its Secrets–Here's the List

John Paczkowski in News on February 16, 2011 at 8:14 am PT

The antitrust investigation Google is facing in Texas is quite a bit broader than originally thought. A civil investigative demand sent last July by the office of Attorney General Greg Abbott, and first reported by Bloomberg, reveals an inquiry not just into ad pricing, but site ranking and “the manual overriding or altering of” search results as well.

Will Secretary of State Clinton's "Internet Freedom Agenda" Finally Get Traction?

Kara Swisher in News on February 16, 2011 at 7:09 am PT

Yesterday, in a major policy speech in Washington, D.C., Secretary of State Hillary Clinton jumped on the Internet bandwagon again, unveiling a $25 million government investment for entrepreneurs to allow dissidents to thwart “thugs, hackers and censors.” Since that’s about the amount a third-string social photo-sharing site gets while walking down University Avenue in Palo Alto, Calif., from venture capitalists with bags of money to spend, let me just say the money is, well, underwhelming. Clinton’s speech, thankfully, was much better.

Use a Tablet, Save a Tree

John Paczkowski in News on February 16, 2011 at 3:33 am PT

Ironic, isn’t it, that Hewlett-Packard touts wireless printing as one of the TouchPad’s big selling points, when the tablet form-factor to some extent obviates the need to print.