Stories about: Umax

Imagine how different the tech industry might have been had Gary Kildall accepted IBM's offer, back in 1980, to license his computer operating system for a top-secret project. CP/M would have been the OS that shipped with the original IBM PC, and the world might never have heard the name of Kildall's competitor, who eventually accepted the contract: a Mr. Bill Gates.

HP ScanJet 4300c, Umax Astra, CanoScan D660U, Epsom Perfection 640U

Umax Technologies Inc. is releasing on Monday the AstraNet iA101, a US$129 scanner that streamlines tasks for one-button operation.

Publishers, electronics manufacturers and electronic-commerce Web site developers presented a plethora of announcements here at the Seybold publishing show this week regarding the way users interact with text and images in the digital medium. While vendors such as Microsoft, Amazon.com, and Adobe Systems garnered the majority of attendees' attention, a number of players in the publishing space also presented their latest developments.

Sure, the stock market looks shaky now. But Apple Computer Inc. looked like a bad bet on July 10, 1997 - the day its stock price fell to a low of $12.75 a share. What if you were able to buy 500 shares then and sell them when Apple peaked at $150.38 a share last March? Assuming a 10 percent capital gains tax, you'd end up with a tidy profit in the neighborhood of $61,931.25. What should you do with all that money?

Scanner and digital-camera maker Umax Technologies Inc. is taking advantage of this week's Seybold digital-media show here to announce two midprice high-resolution scanners, which are expected to ship in mid-September.

This week Umax Technologies Inc. is announcing two new scanners in its low-cost Astra 3400 series that are designed to scan and upload directly to the Web. Both models include a one-year account on the ImageOnline photo-sharing site.

SAN FRANCISCO (07/26/2000) - Two well-priced 600-by-1200-dpi scanners join the SOHO ranks this month. The Umax Technologies Inc. Astra 3400 produced pleasing color and line-art results. The Hewlett-Packard Co. ScanJet 4300C created better images on our lower-resolution, 75-dpi color and 300-dpi black and white tests. Its handy dual interface gives users two connectivity options--something only one other SOHO scanner on the chart offers. Our corporate list remains unchanged.

Scanners that connect to a PC via the fast IEEE 1394 standard typically carry price tags of around $1000, placing them out of reach for most consumers. But Umax Technologies Inc. brings IEEE 1394 (also called Firewire and ILink) into the mainstream with its $249 Astra 6400 scanner, due in stores next week.

Faxing from your computer is straightforward if you're a single user; since all new Macs come with a lite version of Smith Micro's FaxSTF software, you just add a fax modem and you're in business. It would be impractical and wasteful to outfit an entire office with fax modems and individually dedicated phone lines, but until now the only Mac-based products for network faxing were outdated and unsupported. That's why the U.S. debut of Glenwarne Ltd.'s FaxElite networked fax software is such a welcome development; with FaxElite, companies can easily and economically bring faxing to every user's desktop.

The island nation of Taiwan is tiny--not quite a tenth the size of California, with only about two-thirds the population. So why is it the world's top producer of so many computer parts and peripherals?