| Smiling? Digital cameras get more compact, add features | | Posted Saturday, January 20, 2007 2:49:27 PM by Blog57 Team | | Best compact digital cameras CNET's staff reviews thousands of products each year, giving unbiased advice about which products to buy. The Arizona Republic teamed up with CNET to provide editors' top picks for personal technology products. This week, we're looking at the best compact digital cameras: Each weighs 8 ounces or less, even with batteries and media installed. Check out Saturday's Work & Life page for product reviews next week as well, or go to cnet.com for updates. Canon PowerShot SD700 IS .... | |
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| | | CES 2007: The latest Easyshare cameras from Kodak | | Posted Wednesday, January 17, 2007 12:49:38 PM by Blog57 Team | | Kodak has unveiled the latest in its EASYSHARE lineup - the V1003 and V803, which offer 10 and 8 megapixel resolutions respectively. Make sure you check out our video on the turn for a hands on view. With these models, Kodak is keen to push the personalisation aspects of photography - so you can get the cameras in a wide range of ridiculously named colours including pink bliss, red shimmer, cosmic blue, mystic purple, golden dream, white glaze, silver essence, slate gray and java black. They even come with some funky beady thingies that you hang off the side to give your camera a bit of a bohemian feel. Each now sports a new maximum ISO sensitivity of 1600 as well as 22 scene modes, VGA video recording with on-screen editing, and a 2.5" LCD for viewfinding. You can also mark your best pics as a Favourite and, according to their PR person, that stores them on the internal memory and "makes it extremely hard to delete them".... | |
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| | | Time Warner to exit China cinema business | | Posted Monday, November 13, 2006 2:51:57 PM by Blog57 Team | | Time Warner Inc., the world's biggest media company, is pulling out of the cinema business in China because of rules that bar it from controlling its ventures in one of the world's fastest-growing entertainment markets.The company's cinema investment in China, through Warner Bros. International Cinemas Inc., is based on 2003 regulations that let foreign investors own up to 75 percent of cinema ventures in seven Chinese cities, Warner said in an e-mailed statement today. China then published rules in 2005 barring foreign control of such ventures. "The significant regulatory changes have made a big impact on our business in China," Warner said in the statement. "After looking at all possible solutions in the past year, we have no other options" than to pull out of the market.Time Warner's exit from an industry which generated 2 billion yuan ($254 million) in ticket sales in China last year highlights the vulnerability of foreign media and entertainment companies to the country's policy changes.... | |
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| | | GigE Vision Compliant Gigabit Ethernet Cameras for Machine Vision | | Posted Thursday, November 09, 2006 12:53:35 PM by Blog57 Team | | The GigE Vision camera series vary from VGA to 4 megapixels resolution in compact, industrial ruggedised bodies. Current analog camera users will now find the transition to digital cameras cost-effective and beneficial to their systems quality and speed. Jai and Dalsa cameras will offer more versatility and flexibility and help drive down system costs. Jai and Dalsa GigE Vision cameras will integrate directly with existing IT network infrastructure or give the ability to deploy a single or multiple camera network at low cost using off the shelf technology. Function/Applications Jai and Dalsa Gigabit Ethernet Camera technology comply to the GigE Vision (AIA) and Genicam (EMVA) standards. Their state of the art designs incorporating both Sony and Kodak sensors offer high digital quality images at transmission distances up to 100m with Cat5e cabling, 8 bit, 10 bit, 12 bit depth, and with transmission speeds of up to100MB/sec.... | |
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| | | Eastman Kodak Says Wins Patent Suit | | Posted Thursday, November 02, 2006 6:48:16 PM by Blog57 Team | | Eastman Kodak Co. announced Wednesday that a federal district court ruled that the company's digital cameras do not infringe a patent owned by Ampex Corp. The U.S. District Court in Delaware handed down the decision yesterday. "Kodak is a long-standing innovator in the digital camera industry, and we have devoted significant resources to the research and development of our digital capture technologies," said Laura Quatela, Kodak's managing director for intellectual property. "We did not believe that Ampex's suit had merit, and the court agreed with our position." Ampex originally filed suit against Eastman Kodak in October 2004, seeking unspecified financial damages. Ampex, of Redwood City, Calif., said it is considering whether to appeal the decision. Shares of Eastman Kodak fell 30 cents to $24.10 in afternoon trading on the New York Stock Exchange.... | |
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| | | Olympus says to beat H1 profit forecast by 62 pct | | Posted Sunday, October 29, 2006 10:49:39 PM by Blog57 Team | | TOKYO, Oct 27 (Reuters) - Japan's Olympus Corp. said on Friday it likely beat its first-half operating profit forecast by about 62 percent and blew past market estimates thanks to strong sales of digital cameras and endoscopes and a weaker yen. Olympus, the world's fourth-largest digital camera maker and the top producer of endoscopes, said it now expects to post a group operating profit of 42 billion yen ($354.6 million) for April-September, up 16 billion yen from its prior forecast. The figure is also well above the market consensus for a profit of 33.3 billion yen, according to the average of four analysts polled by Reuters, and more than double the 16.6 billion yen profit recorded by Olympus in the first half last year. It also came in above the 38 billion yen estimate earlier this week by the Nihon Keizai business newspaper.... | |
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| | | Fulfilling high-tech hopes | | Posted Thursday, October 26, 2006 10:49:15 AM by Blog57 Team | | Instead of scribbling crime scene diagrams on pieces of paper, Essex County investigators will now re-create murders, rapes and fatal car accidents in 3-D computer simulations. Rather than crawling under cars on the greasy floor of a tow garage, they will put the autos on a lift in a secure vehicle-processing area. And the county's detectives will join the rest of America in taking pictures with digital cameras instead of processing roles of 35mm film. Essex County, which has long had one of the most poorly equipped crime scene units in the state, yesterday unveiled one of the best -- a 15,000-square-foot facility in Orange brimming with enough high-tech equipment to outfit an episode of "CSI." "Now we won't be running around asking who has the Kodak camera straight from Kmart," Essex County Prosecutor Paula Dow said as she unveiled the $2.5 million facility in front of elected officials and the state's law enforcement elite.... | |
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| | | Review: KODAK P712 | | Posted Sunday, October 22, 2006 6:48:34 PM by Blog57 Team | | This is one of the slowest cameras we have used. Focus and exposure are hit-and-miss affairs, particularly when the lens is at its longest focal length. The electronic viewfinder is poor and the shutter lag is such that any moving subject will be over the horizon between pressing the button and the camera capturing the image. Verdict: Disappointing. It is just as well that digital images are free because you must take at least five photos to get one worth keeping. We understand the attraction of these super-zoom cameras. They seem to offer so much - a pseudo-SLR through-the-lens viewfinder; a lens that is the equivalent of at least three interchangeables; a compact body and, so people hope, simplicity. In our experience, it takes much more effort to produce a good picture with these gimmicky cameras than with any digital SLR.... | |
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| | | Alereon optimistic about UWB growth in 2007 | | Posted Friday, October 20, 2006 12:48:05 PM by Blog57 Team | | Alereon is positive about its business outlook as it believes ultra-wideband (UWB) will rise as the new mainstream data transmission technology in 2008, said company officials at a recent Intel Developer Forum (IDF) in Taiwan. As a wireless USB and UWB chipset design house, Alereon said volume production of digital cameras, printers and notebooks that adopt its UWB chipsets should start within two quarters. Intel, which is aggressively pushing the UWB standard, gives encouraging signs for the growth of UWB applications, noted the company. Alereon anticipates UWB-compliant physical layer interface (PHY) solutions will be volume produced in November. In addition to its partnership with Intel, Eastman Kodak Company and NEC on digital cameras and hard disk drives (HDDs), Alereon said it has also negotiating partnership with Taiwan-based notebook and smartphone OEMs and anticipates seeing applications for these sectors to hit the market in 2007.... | |
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| | | County Launches Energy Initiative | | Posted Thursday, October 19, 2006 6:47:56 AM by Blog57 Team | | Monroe County executive Maggie Brooks has announced new initiatives aimed at cutting down on the county's energy expenses and helping to preserve the environment. Brooks believes renewable energy is the way to achieve those goals. The Winslow Elementary School in Henrietta served as the backdrop for the announcement Wednesday emphasizing education in spreading alternate energy. Students received Chet the Cheetah calendars with information about the three "R's": renew, re-use and recycle. The county says it's doing its part, making its fleet of cars more eco-friendly by using hybrid vehicles. "Everybody is struggling with the high cost of gasoline, so if we can pilot, in a sense, these alternative fuels, we can save money, improve efficiency and do more with less in county government," Brooks said.... | |
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