| Laser Image Corporate Printing Continues Expansion, Moves to ...
DURHAM, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 7, 2006--In July, Laser Image Corporate Printing, a 19-year old digital print service in RTP, completed its move to larger quarters at One Park Center, 4018 Patriot Drive, Durham, NC. Laser Image provides a full range of design and printing services for documentation, business identity and marketing collateral materials. The company also provides a complete range of fast-turnaround direct mail services. "The move effectively doubles our space," President Richard Smith said, "allowing us to expand services in great demand, especially data management, graphic design, and direct mail marketing. We've already added another five-color digital press and expect to hire 4 - 6 new employees in the near future. "Our clientele requires a great variety of printed materials produced on demand and delivered very fast.
Restrictive design rules could curb EDA growth, analyst says
SAN FRANCISCO A coming wave of adoption of so called restrictive design rules (RDRs) at the 32-nanometer node could curb potential EDA market growth if widespread enough, according to Mary Ann Olsson, vice president of EDA design research at Gartner Inc. Speaking to a packed hotel ballroom as one of four analysts to present at the 18th annual Gartner Dataquest Executive Briefing here Sunday evening (July 23), Olsson said that some percentage of 32-nm designs will certainly use RDRs, also known as structured regular silicon. If that percentage is greater than 40 percent, Olsson said, growth in the market for design-for-manufacturability (DFM) tools will be significantly reduced. Adopting RDRs will enable designers to use less expensive layout tools and decrease use of DFM and yield analysis tools, Olsson said.
As Postage Rates Rise, the Wise Will Find Hidden Value in Paper
The Postal Rate Commission announced in November 2005 the approval of a 5.4% postal rate increase. The increase took effect in early 2006, and for companies that mail high volumes of bills and statements the financial impact will be significant. Some may point to electronic bill presentment as a way to sidestep these increases, but the fact is that an overwhelming majority (between 85 to 90%) of utility customers still prefer to receive their statements in the mail and pay bills with a paper check. The reason? Customers have little incentive to change their habits and often find e-billing more confusing and time consuming than necessary. In the face of the pending postal rate increase— coupled with slow adoption of electronic bill presentment and payment—utilities may feel that they are caught between a rock and a hard place; but there is hope.
Twenty will be inducted into new BHS Hall of Fame
The first 20 members of the new Hall of Fame will be inducted during a ceremony at 3:30 p.m. Friday, Aug. 25 as part of the 50th Anniversary Celebration at Burnsville High School (BHS). They are Cameron Beckman, Vic Berra, Todd Boonstra, Peter Daly, Kirk Detlefsen, Troy Gronseth, Dick Hanson, Bob Keeney, David Knutson, Ron and Joyce Lund (Cornerstone Copy), Holly (Manthei) Doyle, Tom Melchior, Tim Nichols, Mark Osiecki, Suzanne (Roell) Grimm, Joel Ronning, Ted Seidel, Kenneth Storm, Nancy (Swanum) Hart and Janet (Bohn) Williams. Inductees include alumni, retired staff and community individuals and organizations.
The purpose of the Hall of Fame is to recognize individuals and organizations who have made exceptional achievements in their field, significant contributions to Burnsville High School and/or unique contributions to their community on a local, state, national or international level.
Iran develops 32-bit processor
LONDON Iran has designed and produced a 32-bit microprocessor for the first time, according to the Fars News Agency based in Tehran. The agency said Tuesday (July 25) that Iranian researchers and engineers at Pars Semiconductor Co. (Tehran) had developed a 32-bit processor that is compatible with the Sparc instruction set. Pars Semiconductor Co. has been in operation since 2003 as a developer of ASIC, SoC and FPGA designs, according to its Web site. During that time it has developed the Aristo and Tiny cores based on the Sparc V8 architecture, and has now proved the cores out in silicon. Pars works with the High Tech Industries Center of Iran, according to its website. Aristo is a core intended for SoC implementation and, according to Pars, the processor has been declared fully functional after fabrication in a 0.18-micron process technology from foundry company Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.
Moonlight Lake
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Hardly a Good Word at New York Times
What's the good word? There doesn't seem to be much of one these days for many newspaper companies reporting second-quarter earnings, and New York Times (NYSE: NYT - News) joined the crew. In reporting on its quarter, it also said it would reduce its newspaper size and cut more staff, and its chief financial officer is retiring. .
Convington: Banking on Egg
MY DAVAO bank -- one of the high street big names -- last week sent me a printed notice advising me of changes (read increases) to their banking charges. Fair enough you may say but at the bottom of the letter was this line, "The cost of this notice has been deducted from your account."
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