Canon has acquired Newcal Industries, a longtime distributor of its products, to protect its market position after key distributor, Ikon Office Solutions, was snatched out of its hands, reports Reuters.
Canon's stock has tumbled sharply since late August after rival Ricoh said it would buy Ikon for $1.6 billion, and aim to replace Canon products with its own printers and copiers in three to four years.
About 60% of the products handled by Ikon are made by Canon and analysts have warned the deal could deal a big blow to its position in the world's largest office equipment market.
Motorola, NII unveil Melody
Motorola and NII Holdings have released Melody, Motorola's next-generation iDEN dispatch and telephone interconnect core switching platform in for Nextel's clients in Chile, states SmartBrief.
The Melody platform lets push-to-talk and telephone interconnect users roam and seamlessly communicate with other iDEN subscribers in four NII Holdings markets, Argentina, Brazil, Mexico and Peru, as well as with iDEN subscribers in the US.
The Melody switching core platform also has the ability to scale up in capacity over time to serve several million dispatch and interconnect subscribers and to expand to more than 1 000 cell sites.
Xerox releases multifunction printers
Xerox introduced two desktop multifunction printers (MFPs) that offer high-end scanning and fax capabilities, says DataStorageConnection.
The Phaser 3300MFP and the WorkCentre 4260MFP multifunction printers offer printing, copy speeds of 30 pages per minute, scanning and colour faxing.
The Phaser 3300MFP is also equipped with Xerox Scan to PC Desktop software, which allows users to send a document from the MFP straight to their PC desktop for viewing, editing and storing.
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