ACER PD112 The cheapest of the DLP models is significantly more expensive than the entry level LCD projectors and while the contrast ratio is likely to be better, it does not offer much more in the way of brightness or resolution. The InFocus X2 offers better brightness at the same cost. InFocus X2 [...]
Archive for May, 2010
May 24th, 2010 - 9:08 pm § in Features
Digital projectors round up – part 2
Projectors have many differentiating features, but the core technology they are built around can be divided into two main types, LCD (Liquid Crystal Display) and DLP (Digital Light Processing). The two technologies have both been around for long enough to be considered fully mature, and they each ha[...]
May 24th, 2010 - 9:04 pm § in Features
Digital projectors round up – part 1
The digital projector market has enjoyed tremendous growth across all segments in the past twelve months. Prices have been slashed aggressively and what was once an exotic and expensive piece of display equipment is now easily affordable, and high quality devices are available at entry level prices.[...]
May 24th, 2010 - 9:01 pm § in News
SMBs Failing to Protect Data Assets
A new report from research group Quocirca (www.quocirca.com) claims that small and medium businesses in Europe are not taking sufficient precautions to safeguard their valuable digital assets. The report surveyed 200 senior SMB managers throughout Europe and found that 90 per cent of medium sized bu[...]
May 24th, 2010 - 8:59 pm § in Features
Colour printing in business
A lot of offices are looking to bring printing and copying back into the office environment, so it’s not done in the print room or outsourced to the likes of pronta-print. We’re seeing lots of our bigger machines going into the office environment, probably more than I thought was going to happen[...]
May 24th, 2010 - 8:56 pm § in Features
Business mobile phone market analysis
There’s a whole range of things. What we’re seeing is that those requirements vary dramatically across our customers. There is an element of design, not all of the business users are looking primarily at functionality, there is an issue of durability. They are increasingly finding that the small[...]
May 24th, 2010 - 8:54 pm § in News
Vodafone Launches 3G Service
It cost billions of pounds and took over three years to set up the network, but this month Vodafone (www.vodafone.co.uk) finally launched its third generation mobile phone service. The UK’s first commercial 3G service was launched over a year ago by new entrant, Hutchison 3G (now simply ‘3’) b[...]
May 24th, 2010 - 8:52 pm § in Features
Colour copier industry analysis
The main area of growth in the market has been the move towards what the industry calls colour capable and that’s basically as more and more people use colour in their office documents such as PowerPoint or Excel they’re seeing more of a need to print out colour in their documents. Lots of the m[...]