Xerox appoints CEO

Xerox has appointed a new CEO, Ursula Burns, to replace current CEO and chairman Anne Mulcahy, who announced her retirement from the post, ARN reports.

Burns, who is the company's president, will take the new position starting 1 July. Mulcahy will remain chairman of Xerox's board.

Burns joined Xerox in 1980 and previously was responsible for running parts of Xerox's successful printer business.

Meiller direct, one of Europe's largest providers of direct marketing services, is the first European beta customer for Kodak's Stream Printhead, reports Yahoo.

Kodak's Stream Printhead is a monochrome continuous inkjet solution for inline digital printing on high-speed Web devices such as offset presses and inline finishing equipment.

The technology enables commercial printers to bridge between offset and digital printing, extending business and revenue opportunities by adding value to printed pages.

A new way of printing organic electronics is more reliable and yields higher performance, according to Technology Review.

It's possible to print large, flexible arrays of cheap, plastic transistors to drive displays, but the performance of these organic electronics is still not consistent enough for commercial devices.

A new method for printing a wide variety of semiconducting organic compounds such as polymers is much more reliable, and improves the performance of a wide variety of these materials by a few orders of magnitude.