tonernews.com for today(Happy New Year 2013)

Xerox Protests West Virgina Contract Award 

CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Technology giant Xerox alleges West Virginia officials cut a multi-million dollar "side deal" that allowed a California company to unfairly win what is perhaps the largest contract in state government history.
Atlanta-based Xerox is challenging the outcome of a $248 million computer contract the state Department of Health and Human Resources signed last month with California-based Molina Medicaid Solutions...ReadMore

Spy Fears Lead Top U.S. Nuke Lab to Dump Gear From HP

Los Alamos National Laboratory reportedly removes network switches made by H3C -- launched as a joint venture between Huawei and 3Com -- over security concerns. But Huawei no longer owns a piece of H3C.
Los Alamos National Laboratory is reportedly removing network switches made by a partnership that once included controversial Chinese telecommunication gear maker Huawei because of national security concerns.

But Huawei, which was rebuked last fall by the House Intelligence Committee for posing a national threat because of potential ties to the Chinese government, hasn't been part of H3C Technologies, the partnership that makes the switches, since 2006, Reuters reported...........More

Samsung Expects to Ship a Half Billion Phones in 2013  

Samsung is looking to eclipse its 2012 sales record by shipping more than a half billion phones in 2013.
To be exact, Samsung is planning to ship 510 million phones next year, according to The Korea Times. That would represent a 20% increase over the 420 million phones Samsung is estimated to ship for 2012, according to the report.
Broken out, 390 million of the devices are expected to be smartphones while the other 120 million would be feature and budget phones, according to The Korea Times, which cites unnamed sources at Samsung and its suppliers....Read More

State Of Pennsylvania Save $1M by Changing Canon's Default Printer Settings

HARRISBURG — Debates on government spending can turn thoroughly complicated, but sometimes saving taxpayer dollars is as simple as pressing a couple buttons on a couple thousand printers.
This week, Pennsylvania’s Governor’s Innovation Office reported that it helped secure $84 million in savings in 2012 through various operational efficiencies.
One such triumph: Changing default settings on Department of Public Welfareprinters, saving a cool $1.1 million in paper and toner costs. Settings were changed on 2,300 printers to print double-sided pages, and 200 to print in black and white....Read More

Ikon, GE Capital Settle Antitrust Claims Over Copier Leases

Law360, New York -- Ikon Office Solutions Inc. and General Electric Capital Services Inc. have settled an antitrust and fraud case brought against them by companies that competed with Ikon on photocopier leases, according to a joint filing in California federal court from Friday.

Ikon and GE Capital — named as a defendant because it bought and enforced some of Ikon's contracts — reached a settlement deal with several business services providers, including NewCal Industries Inc., according to a joint stipulation that asked the court to dismiss the suit. NewCal...Read More

Uk: U.S. Hi-Tech Giants Paid No Tax Despite Earning £500m+

Under fire, the five hi-tech giants that paid no tax despite earning £500m from Government contracts

Microsoft, which took £700m in government contracts, paid only £19million in tax

Oracle, Xerox, Dell, CSC Computer Sciences and Symantec also under fire

Five technology giants that earned nearly £500million from taxpayer-funded government contracts paid no UK corporation tax last year.

Oracle, Xerox, Dell, CSC Computer Sciences and Symantec had UK turnover of more than £7billion, MPs heard last night...Read More