Monthly Archives: January 2011

Demonstrating the versatility and benefits of its award-winning document scanning devices, Canon U.S.A., Inc., a leader in digital imaging, will showcase its line of imageFORMULA solutions at LegalTech, the leading technology exposition in the legal arena. Attendees will have the opportunity for hands-on demonstrations of imageFORMULA products designed to meet the demands for precision, security and flexibility in the legal sector, in the Canon booth (Booth #1711) at the New York Hilton Hotel, January 31st – February 2nd, 2011.

“Canon is dedicated to addressing the changing needs of law firms and legal departments” said Jim Rosetta, vice president and general manager, Imaging Systems Group, Canon U.S.A. “We are excited to demonstrate our continued commitment to deliver scanning solutions, designed to improve practice management, collaboration and efficiency”

Canon will have a variety of its award-winning imageFORMULA devices on display during this year’s show, including:

* imageFORMULA P-150 “Scan-tini” Personal Document Scanner: The P-150’s compact size and ease-of-use is ideal for use by “road warriors” and office users in general-purpose distributed document scanning applications, as well as check scanning in remote deposit capture applications. Measuring 11-inches long, 3.7-inches wide, 1.6-inches high and weighing just over two pounds, the P-150 redefines the minimum dimensions of a document scanner with automatic document feeder.
* imageFORMULA DR-9050C Production Scanner: A high-volume, high image-quality document scanning solution, the DR-9050C scans at speeds up to 112 ppm/225 ipmi in color, grayscale and black and white. The DR-9050C captures images and text with clarity using three-line Contact Image Sensors at up to 600 dots-per-inch optical resolution, and incorporates a dust-free shading mechanism for exceptional image quality.
* imageFORMULA ScanFront 300P Network Scanner: The imageFORMULA ScanFront 300P network scanner is a full-featured, easy-to-use and manage device developed to capture, convert and share documents across a network while also improving the security of the data being shared and lowering overall workplace costs. Featuring a fingerprint reader to improve security, the ScanFront 300P is an ideal solution for capturing documents in decentralized environments and improves collaboration by allowing users to capture and share information seamlessly in central and field locations.

Further demonstrating the versatility and compatibility of its image capture devices, Canon U.S.A will feature a software partner, Drivve, showing its Drivve | Image Canon Edition software running in conjunction with the ScanFront 300P.

For more information visit www.usa.canon.com.

Google is trying to recruit dozens of software developers to create applications for smartphones and other mobile devices, according to The Wall Street Journal.

“The Internet company has begun recruiting software engineers, product managers, user-interface experts and others who have ideas for mobile apps.

Benjamin Ling, a Google product – management director, has been leading recruiting efforts, the people familiar with the matter said. Google declined to make him available for comment.”

Read more: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703554204576112723686094898.html#ixzz1Cc9c9KaB

Android version 2.3 Gingerbread has a security hole in the OS., reports Kelly Jackson Higgins writing on Darkreading.

“Xuxian Jiang, a security researcher at NC State University, has tested and confirmed the bug on a Nexus S smartphone running Android 2.3. An attack would work like this: An Android user clicks on a malicious link in an email or in the browser, and an attacker could then read and upload any files on the phone’s SD memory card, including things like online banking information, pictures, and saved voicemails. An attacker could also root out the phone’s apps and upload them to a remote server, according to Jiang, who is an assistant professor in the computer science department”

Full article: http://www.darkreading.com/insider-threat/167801100/security/vulnerabilities/229200006/data-leak-flaw-found-in-newest-version-of-google-android.html

The Document Foundation has launched LibreOffice 3.3, the first stable release of the free office suite developed by the community. In less than four months, the number of developers hacking LibreOffice has grown from less than twenty in late September 2010, to well over one hundred today. This has allowed us to release ahead of the aggressive schedule set by the project.Not only does it ship a number of new and original features, LibreOffice 3.3 is also a significant achievement for a number of reasons:

– the developer community has been able to build their own and independent process, and get up and running in a very short time (with respect to the size of the code base and the project’s strong ambitions);

– thanks to the high number of new contributors having been attracted into the project, the source code is quickly undergoing a major clean-up to provide a better foundation for future development of LibreOffice;

– the Windows installer, which is going to impact the largest and most diverse user base, has been integrated into a single build containing all language versions, thus reducing the size for download sites from 75 to 11GB, making it easier for us to deploy new versions more rapidly and lowering the carbon footprint of the entire infrastructure.

Caolán McNamara from RedHat, one of the developer community leaders, comments, “We are excited: this is our very first stable release, and therefore we are eager to get user feedback, which will be integrated as soon as possible into the code, with the first enhancements being released in February. Starting from March, we will be moving to a real time-based, predictable, transparent and public release schedule, in accordance with Engineering Steering Committee’s goals and users’ requests”. The LibreOffice development roadmap is available at http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleasePlan

LibreOffice 3.3 brings several unique new features. The 10 most-popular among community members are, in no particular order: the ability to import and work with SVG files; an easy way to format title pages and their numbering in Writer; a more-helpful Navigator Tool for Writer; improved ergonomics in Calc for sheet and cell management; and Microsoft Works and Lotus Word Pro document import filters. In addition, many great extensions are now bundled, providing PDF import, a slide-show presenter console, a much improved report builder, and more besides. A more-complete and detailed list of all the new features offered by LibreOffice 3.3 is viewable on the following web page: http://www.libreoffice.org/download/new-features-and-fixes/

LibreOffice 3.3 also provides all the new features of OpenOffice.org 3.3, such as new custom properties handling; embedding of standard PDF fonts in PDF documents; new Liberation Narrow font; increased document protection in Writer and Calc; auto decimal digits for “General” format in Calc; 1 million rows in a spreadsheet; new options for CSV import in Calc; insert drawing objects in Charts; hierarchical axis labels for Charts; improved slide layout handling in Impress; a new easier-to-use print interface; more options for changing case; and colored sheet tabs in Calc. Several of these new features were contributed by members of the LibreOffice team prior to the formation of The Document Foundation.

LibreOffice hackers will be meeting at FOSDEM in Brussels on February 5 and 6, and will be presenting their work during a one-day workshop on February 6, with speeches and hacking sessions coordinated by several members of the project.

The home of The Document Foundation is at http://www.documentfoundation.org

The home of LibreOffice is at http://www.libreoffice.org where the download page has been redesigned by the community to be more user-friendly.