printing

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.

Whoops, HP Just Bought Another Company

Arik Hesseldahl in News on December 6, 2011 at 6:22 am PT

Meet Hiflex, a Germany-based printing software outfit that for one reason or another caught Hewlett-Packard’s eye.

Another Facebook Movie Coming–But This Time With AOL As Co-Star

Kara Swisher in Media on May 24, 2011 at 6:01 am PT

You can chillax, Mark Zuckerberg–it’s not “The Social Network 2: The Winklevii Stroke, Stroke, Strooooke Back.” In fact, it’s more like: “You’ve Got Social Network Mail.”

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.

Rupert Murdoch Introduces the Daily, His iPad Newspaper

Peter Kafka in Media on February 2, 2011 at 7:40 am PT

News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch, along with Apple’s Eddy Cue, rented out the Guggenheim Museum to show off their newest creation: A newspaper built for the iPad.

Working With AirPrint

Walt Mossberg in Mossberg’s Mailbox on January 26, 2011 at 3:11 pm PT

Walt answers readers’ questions on Apple’s AirPrint and a computer backup.

Meet the Yahoo Board: Something Old, Something New–But Will They Do Something?

Kara Swisher in News on October 14, 2010 at 9:00 am PT

With all the noisy swirl around Yahoo of late–from its executive turmoil to its flat growth to its dashed partnerships in Asia to its brash CEO–its board has been unusually quiet of late. Comatose, some might say. But with private equity firms, media companies, Web rivals, big shareholders, Wall Street and others all machinating about trying to grab all or some of the Internet giant, it will be interesting to see if its directors will shake themselves out of their typical comfort zone of inactivity to actually do their job. Thus, time for their moment in the BoomTown spotlight!

Using the iPad for School and Updating the Droid Incredible

Walt Mossberg in Mossberg’s Mailbox on June 9, 2010 at 4:22 pm PT

Walter Mossberg answers readers’ questions on using the iPad for schoolwork and the updating the Droid Incredible.

The Beaver Brothers of Zazzle Talk About Customizing, Well, Everything!

Kara Swisher in News on December 24, 2009 at 6:00 am PT

A few weeks ago, BoomTown motored down to Silicon Valley, to the Redwood City, Calif., HQ of Zazzle, the online site that lets users order a variety of custom products by using a special (and patented) printing technology. I went to talk to the Beaver brothers–Jeff and Bobby, who founded the company with their father, who is CEO, way back before the first Web 1.0 bubble burst in 1999–about recent changes, including finding more ways to slap custom designs on more products and recent international expansion.