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...gurus at venerable staplermaker Swingline woke up to a sharp business reality in 2001--market share had declined from 65% in the mid-1990s to 60% by the end of the decade--they opted for a measured and scientific response: research. For three years, they plumbed the psyches of stapler users, surveying 2,867 people online and sending four-person teams into the offices of 54 individually selected companies to see how their products were used. "We noticed the nuances of their stapling habits. We saw where they kept their staples and their removers," said Jacklyn Gyoerkoe, marketing manager...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Stapler Wars | 3/6/2005 | See Source »

...While lots of people have gone digital, there are still times when a scanner would be handy for e-mailing an older print or posting it on an online photo site. The Visigo Photo Scanner from Ambir Technology is a 600-dpi model about the size of a stapler that plugs into any USB port and works with popular image-editing programs like Adobe Photoshop Elements. It draws power from your computer, so no batteries or other power supplies are needed. In tests, the Visigo took 25 seconds to scan a 4-in. by 6-in. photo. Though...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tech Watch | 1/23/2005 | See Source »

While lots of people have gone digital, there are still times when a scanner would be handy for emailing an older print or posting it on an online photo site. The Visigo Photo Scanner from Ambir Technology is a 600-dpi model about the size of a stapler that plugs into any USB port and works with popular image-editing programs like Adobe Photoshop Elements. It draws power from your computer, so no batteries or other power supplies are needed. In tests, the Visigo took 25 seconds to scan a 4-in. by 6-in. photo. While...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tech: Small-Scale Scanning | 12/17/2004 | See Source »

...Kings of Infinite Space (the reference is to Hamlet) is social satire that slides smoothly and surreally into horror, and if it loses a little of its emotional heft in the process, you don't really miss it. The glee with which Hynes choreographs an in-office zombie-vs.-stapler fight scene is compensation enough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Way We Live Now | 4/26/2004 | See Source »

Once the film was released, buyers began asking for the red stapler. But Swingline didn't make it. "We concluded we really needed to put a red stapler on the market," says Bruce Neapole, Swingline's president. He says Swingline continues to sell thousands each month of what it calls the Rio Red Stapler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Marketing: Cue the Stapler! | 8/11/2003 | See Source »

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