HP appoints print head

Hewlett-Packard named former Mercury Interactive CFO David Murphy head of a new Web Services and Software unit within the company's imaging and printing group, reports MSN Money.

Murphy will serve as senior VP of the unit, which was formed to drive Web services and software applications based on HP's Print 2.0 strategy. The unit will ensure printing is relevant as content moves from the desktop to the Web.

Murphy also served previously as CEO of Asera and as president and GM for Tivoli Systems, a division of Armonk, New York-based IBM.

Today, people can retrieve digital photos based on the time they were taken. A nascent technology called geotagging, though, enables people to organise photos by where they were taken, not just when, reports News.com.

Geotagging requires a Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver and either software that adds GPS data to photo files or an expensive camera that communicates directly with the GPS device.

However, as the technology takes off and sites such as Yahoo's Flickr or Google's Panoramio show off the possibilities, the elements of geotagging are starting to come together.

Xerox recently showcased its personalisation print capabilities by performing a marketing stunt with Wired magazine, reports Biz-Community.

In its April 2007 issue, the publication invited subscribers to upload their personal photographs to Wired.com. The first 5 000 who did so received their personal July issue, with themselves as the cover art.

The editorial theme of the issue was the growing personalisation of print. The project depended on customisation software PersonalEffect from Xerox's newly acquired company, XMPie, and the company's iGen3 110 digital production press.