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Photocopier supplier Canon is warning customers to take better care of their office equipment during the Christmas period, claiming that the festive season traditionally leads to a 25 percent hike in service calls due to incidents such as the classic backside copying prank. Such a stunt, a mainstay of the office party, often results in cracked glass on the copier, with 32 percent of Canon technicians claiming to have been called out to fix glass plates during the Christmas period after attempts to copy body parts went wrong. Tim Andrews, a Canon employee from London, said: "We always fit lots...

In the liberal state of California, more of us are giving less attention to our party affiliation, and more attention to fixing our problems. Our new Governor has done a great job in the short time he's been in office. Many will argue this, but the bottom line is fiscal responsibility, and we can now see some light at the end of the tunnel. However, there are some governmental and minority programs in California that need to be scrutinized very closely. That's probably true at the federal level, as well, but California is not a bad place to start, right...

A set back in Xerox's efforts to silence BERTL came against the copier giant today when the United States District Court ruled against Xerox and in favor of BERTL (Digital Test Lab). November 25th, 2002 in the United States District Court - Civil Action # 02-CV-6365L (F) Xerox Corporation sought to get a court order to force BERTL to accept a settlement offer which was proposed by Xerox in August 2002 in the sum of USD $300,000. Xerox alleged that as part of this "settlement" BERTL was prevented from publishing the fact that Xerox had (among other things) claimed BERTL...