Nuance acquires eCopy

Nuance Communications has acquired eCopy, a company that makes touch-screen technology for document scanning, for about $54 million in stock, reports the Wall Street Journal.

The takeover is the latest in a long series of acquisitions by Nuance, which has been holding up well in the recession. It has also acquired companies that build voice command technology and perform mobile searches on handheld devices this year.

Nuance, which makes software that converts speech into text, said eCopy would boost profit in its existing document-imaging business starting this fiscal year.

Kyocera's recently unveiled SLH-Series LED printhead has achieved the world's fastest electro-photographic printing performance with 180m/min in 1200 dpi high-resolution, according to a research conducted by the company, says TMCnet.

The SLH Series LED Printhead features a 600x36x83 mm size, and currently is being manufactured at the Yohkaichi Plant of Kyocera located in Shiga Prefecture of Japan. The component deploys an advanced high-intensity 1200 dpi LED chip that has been recently developed by Kyocera.

The chip produces four times more light than Kyocera's conventional models, at 150uW with 1mA drive current. The device consumes low power and offers high-resolution printing at a speed of 180m/min, which in a general sense means it can print more than 1 000 sheets of standard A4 size paper per minute.

Microsoft's Windows Mobile 6.5, the latest version of Microsoft's smartphone operating system, was released with the hope that it will gain more market share in the mobile operating-system market, says eWeek.

In order to convince users that the device may meet their business needs better than offerings from Apple, Palm or Research In Motion's BlackBerry line, Microsoft has incorporated a number of business functionalities into Mobile 6.5.

Among these features is Microsoft Office Mobile, which lets users view PowerPoint presentations, as well as edit Word and Excel documents. Microsoft also continues to provide e-mail and calendar management, with the ability to sync with a PC, through Outlook Mobile.