Monthly Archives: April 2012

Neat Portable Scanner from Xerox

Posted on April 27, 2012 by robertwilkie

Interesting little scanner from Xerox. http://www.marketwatch.com/story/is-the-xerox-mobile-scanner-good-very-good-says-pc-magazine-2012-04-24  

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Cheap ATiny Proximity Sensor

Posted on April 26, 2012 by robertwilkie

Nice instructable as to how to make a 2-4 dollar prox sensor.  This could come in handy for alarms, robots, even CNC based systems.  Read about it here: http://www.instructables.com/id/Make-an-Attiny13-based-IR-proximity-sensor-for-2/

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Xerox profits drop, but its not as bad as expected

Posted on April 26, 2012 by robertwilkie

Since the economy still hasn’t really recovered, it was not too bad.  Only thing the is a bit worrisome is the big push to put all the eggs into the services basket. http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/04/23/us-xerox-idUSBRE83M0JD20120423

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Xerox CEO makes top 10 Most Powerful Women

Posted on April 26, 2012 by robertwilkie

Not sure how they rate folks for most powerful.  But Ursula made number 7.  Read all about it below. http://edition.cnn.com/interactive/2012/04/tech/interactive.women.tech/?hpt=hp_bn11

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ATM Skimmers starting to get really hard to spot

Posted on April 25, 2012 by robertwilkie

Another good article from Krebs on an ATM skimmer that is a perfect fit and very well thought out.   These guys are now using 3-D printers and off-the-shelf components to build everything.  Read all about it below. https://krebsonsecurity.com/2012/04/skimtacular-all-in-one-atm-skimmer/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+KrebsOnSecurity+%28Krebs+on+Security%29  

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Another R/C Car Hack

Posted on April 24, 2012 by robertwilkie

Another interesting instructable about taking advantage of the 3rd channel built into most R/C cars (for turbo button) chips to add in your own custom item.  In this case toy guns.  Of course the author thinks its a 5th channel, … Continue reading →

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I need these guys accountant team

Posted on April 24, 2012 by robertwilkie

Interesting article about how some big US companies have really low taxes.  Of course most of the funny money biz is due to putting the cash overseas where Uncle Sam can’t touch it. Read all about it here: Apple, Google, … Continue reading →

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Xerox with a smaller but more effective sales force

Posted on April 17, 2012 by robertwilkie

Interesting article about how Xerox has consolidated its direct sales force. Read all about it here. http://www.democratandchronicle.com/article/20120415/BUSINESS/304130041/Xerox-realigns-its-leaner-sales-force?odyssey=mod|newswell|text|Home|s

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Tim Horton’s Running Linux?

Posted on April 13, 2012 by robertwilkie

I was at my local Tim Horton’s in Rochester NY, when a quick power outage caused the server controlling Tim Horton’s “menu displays” to reboot. And it started up with one system controlling the 6 displays, standard boot stuff came … Continue reading →

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Stop-Light Alert with Arduino

Posted on April 12, 2012 by robertwilkie

OK, you may have noticed I have a bit of interest in the arduino platform.  So what the heck can you do with this.  Well the link below has an interesting write-up of one gent whom uses one with a … Continue reading →

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