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Beware roving print hijackers with Pentax Bluetooth vulnerability
by Staff Writer | posted on 28 November 2005
And as if it's not bad enough to have a Bluetooth powered PowerPoint, you can now print from your Blackberry. All you need is to find some careless office equipment buyer who has left their Pentax PocketJet 3 and 3 Plus portable printer unsecured.
The full release is online at Pentaximaging.com where you can find Ned Bunnell, director of marketing, PENTAX Imaging Company, saying things like "Bluetooth connectivity is the next logical enhancement to the Pentax mobility line as we continue to develop products to meet the needs of the constantly evolving mobile work environment." And so on.
But it's IT Week's Daniel Robinson we have to thank for the news that they're targeting the Blackberry user: Martin Mogendorff, general manager of Pentax Technologies Europe, "said there are new opportunities in the mobile market for Bluetooth printing," and in particular, "the firm hopes to appeal to many of the firms that have deployed BlackBerry email devices to staff in the last few years."
Robinson also points out that "With Content Beamer software from ThinPrint, users of Bluetooth-enabled Symbian handsets will also be able to print documents directly to the new PocketJet models."
Robinson and the Blackberry connection
The official line in the press release
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