Ricoh joins Linux Foundation

Ricoh has become a member of the Linux Foundation in order to participate in the Foundation's events and OpenPrinting.org workgroup, writes Market Watch.

Ricoh says it has formalised its commitment with the Linux Foundation membership to support the work of OpenPrinting, ensuring the company's products reach the growing number of Linux users.

"Our Linux Foundation membership is a natural extension of our support for Linux and demonstrates for our customers our commitment to the platform," says Tetsuya Morita, GM of the GW Development Centre at Ricoh's MFP business group.

Canon Emirates and AST will partner in the UAE to open the largest digital print project in Abu Dhabi, says Al Bawaba.

The partnership combines Canon's printing solutions with AST's high-end printing services. The opening of the office provides support for existing customers and provides a base for the leading business solutions provider to access the capital's growing corporate sector.

The centre provides a platform where AST and Canon can target vertical markets: education, healthcare, construction, real estate, hotels, sports & leisure and oil & gas. The companies forecast significant growth in the print volume business.

Qwest has released a hosted unified communications (UC) service that lets enterprise customers move into an all-IP environment for voice, data, and video, states Light Reading.

The Qwest iQ Hosted Unified Communications Service is based on Cisco technology, featuring VOIP and UC features such as integrated messaging.

"Instead of having Call Manager equipment deployed on the customer's premises to provide the voice functionality and UC capabilities, now we can create that platform inside the network and sell it to customers as a service model," says Eric Bozich, vice-president of Qwest product management.