Category Archives: Xerox

News and articles about Xerox, one of Rochester New Yorks larger employers.

Xerox moving into SC’s SNAP (Food Stamp) program

Sounds like Xerox is making moves to take over South Carolina’s SNAP program.  It currently manages SNAP for several other states, so it makes sense to continue to take it over for other states. http://www.govtech.com/health/New-SNAP-EBT-System-to-Help-South-Carolina-Combat-Waste-Fraud-and-Abuse.html

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Plan on retiring from Xerox, think again

If you work from Xerox, and was planning on retiring from Xerox with a pension, you maybe in for a rude awakening.  Article states that Xerox, like many other companies these days, has discontinued its pension program. http://www.businessinsurance.com/article/20140806/NEWS03/140809891?tags=|63|307|70|82

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Xerox Medicaid having growing pains

Article points out that Xeroxs move into low end services for the government health care is not going as smoothly as one would like. http://www.democratandchronicle.com/story/money/business/2014/08/03/xeroxs-medicaid-business-struggles/13551405/

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Xerox sure has a problem loosing data

For a company that is moving into services such as data processing, Xerox sure has a problem keeping track of data.  In this case a report on speeding cameras in Baltimore shows that perhaps the speedlimit is too low in … Continue reading

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Xerox data analysis helps cut down Hospital Visits in WY

Interesting article, but no meat on how they cut costs, and where those costs went.  In other words, it sounds more like Xerox just looked at repeat customers and pawned them off to other doctor offices (i.e., passed the cost … Continue reading

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How to hack Xerox and other Office MFD’s

Video presentation by Irongeek on how to hack an MFD, seems to really get into the Xerox systems too.  Only issue I had was he did not give credit to those that had already found the issues he was using. … Continue reading

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Xerox sues city of Rowlett

It sounds like Xerox had a complicated contract with the city and the city was loosing money on the deal too. http://starlocalmedia.com/rowlettlakeshoretimes/xerox-files-lawsuit-against-rowlett/article_8ea2a55e-18c7-11e4-82da-001a4bcf887a.html

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What Xerox can learn from Kodak and Fuji

Interesting article.  However I think the author missed a key point.  He pointed to Fuji as a success cause they took what they had, and used it to branch into other fields to re-invent themselves.  Where Kodak towed the line … Continue reading

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Build a Pantograph with a Dremel

Nice write-up to build a Pantograph (thing that draws, in this case cuts, a duplicate of what you are tracing).  Only thing I might do differently is a better holder for the dremel.  Maybe something that can thread in. http://starlocalmedia.com/rowlettlakeshoretimes/xerox-files-lawsuit-against-rowlett/article_8ea2a55e-18c7-11e4-82da-001a4bcf887a.html

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Xerox the largest employer (publicly held) in Rochester

I’m still trying to figure out if this is good or bad.  Good since Xerox is now the number 1 employer (not counting private companies like UofR, or the Rochester City School District).   Or that all the other companies, … Continue reading

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