Las Vegas Photos
March 23, 2006 at 8:29 am · Filed under Gallery Updates, Travel
I’ve created a new Las Vegas album with photos from my trip.
Archive for March, 2006
Live From Vegas
March 8, 2006 at 8:45 pm · Filed under Travel
I’m in Las Vegas this week for a conference. I’m staying at Paris and the conference is at the Venetian, so I go from the Eiffel tower (there is a 1/2 scale replica out front) to St. Mark’s square by walking a few blocks! My co-worker Mike and his wife are also here, so we’re having fun. I return home on Friday, so hopefully I’ll be able to do a lot between now and then and still get some sleep!
HP Photosmart Express
March 2, 2006 at 9:56 am · Filed under Random
Friends often ask me what exactly I do for HP. One of my projects was in the news last week, so I thought I’d share. February 23 was the end of the “press silence” over the release of HP’s Retail Photo Printing kiosks called HP Photosmart Express.
I’ve been involved with the financial transaction processing of the kiosk. Customers will be able to pay for their prints directly on the kiosk using a credit card or a stored value card (like a gift or coupon card). This is a feature that is currently not offered by any other photo printing solution and allows the customer experience to be much more autonomous. My contribution to the project was to get the accounting transactions posted to HP’s corporate financial systems by setting up the data flows for the incoming invoices and credit card payments.
HP will be placing these kiosks in tranitional outlets like grocery and drug stores, but also look for them in hotels, college campuses and malls.
I’m still working on future releases for the project and likely will be for the rest of this year as HP looks to expand their consumer direct offerings.