Consumers pay for Samsung green plan

Samsung has joined other vendors and unveiled its own trade-in scheme for old or obsolete printers, but users must bear the cost, states Computing.co.uk.

Anthony Penton, head of marketing at Samsung's print division, says the aim was to boost sales by giving end-users a chance to save money while helping the environment.

“It makes financial and environmental sense,” Penton said. “End-users go to our Web site, say what they are trading in and what they want to buy and then get a cash-back quote. Then they post the printer to the recycling centre.”

Printer maker Lexmark International plans to cut 825 jobs worldwide through 2011 as it works to make itself more efficient and deal with an economy that has dragged down revenues substantially, reports Kentucky.com.

The cuts will be focused primarily on the company's manufacturing, which is done overseas, in a bid to improve its supply chain. Other affected areas include service delivery overhead, marketing and sales support, corporate overhead and development.

While some of the 825 jobs affected will be in Lexington, the company said it has been hiring in other areas and will continue to employ about 3 000 workers at its headquarters. The cuts are not expected to be complete until the first quarter of 2011.

Nvidia is taking its graphics processing technology into the cloud, says eWeek.

At the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, Nvidia and its subsidiary, mental images, introduced the Nvidia RealityServer, a combination of GPU computing and streaming software that is designed to bring interactive, photorealistic 3D applications to any Internet-connected device, including PCs, netbooks and smartphones.

The RealityServer will enable developers to create 3D Web applications for both enterprises and consumers that will offer a high level of realism, according to Nvidia officials.