HP unveils Web-connected business printers

HP has released its first Web-connected printers for small businesses, according to Silicon Republic.

The company also included the world's first wide-print-format all-in-one device with Web connectivity.

The new HP Officejet Pro 8500A e-all-in-one series and the HP Officejet 7500A Wide Format e-all-in-one have HP e-print technology, allowing users to print from any mobile device.

Japanese researchers say they have developed technology to scan a book as fast as a person can flip through it, writes the Herald Sun.

A prototype ultra-fast scanner capable of digitising a book in one minute will be built within two years, says the chief researcher of the team at the University of Tokyo's Graduate School of Information Science and Technology.

The 'book-flipping scanning' system works with a camera that can take up to 500 photographs per second, enabling it to record about 170 book pages in 60 seconds as a person thumbs through them.

US department of homeland security secretary Janet Napolitano has revealed deployments of American Recovery and Reinvestment Act-funded advanced imaging technology to eight additional airports nationwide, notes Gov Monitor.

This is said to be able to strengthen security at US airports while creating local jobs.

“Deploying advanced imaging technology at these airports strengthens our ability to protect the travelling public in the face of evolving threats to aviation security,” says Napolitano