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Leica grabs bragging rights with `fastest' lens (AP)AP - Before camera manufacturers one-upped each other with the number of megapixels, they one-upped each other with the zoom range of their lenses. And before that, in the 1960s, the "speed" of the lens, its ability to gather light, was the big selling point. Full text |
New Nintendo DS portable will come with camera (AP)
Dell AIO Printers Designed for Home, Workgroups (PC Magazine)
Pentax Announces Entry-Level DSLR, Accessories (PC Magazine)
Leica Unveils Next-Gen M8 Digicam (PC Magazine)
Google-Led Android May Shake Up Market (Investor's Business Daily)
New Nikon SLR camera shoots high-def movies, too (AP)
Nikon D90 Adds High-Def Video Recording (PC Magazine)
Olympus Unveils Tap-Controlled Digital Camera (NewsFactor)
HP closes $13.9 billion purchase of EDS (Reuters)
Canon Patent Sheds More Light on Fuel-Cell Plans (PC Magazine)
Reuters - Sony Corp swung to a quarterly operating profit as it booked strong sales of liquid crystal display TVs and digital cameras and benefited from a weaker yen, and it slightly raised its full-year forecast. Full text
AP - Sony reported Thursday a dramatic improvement in profit for the July-September quarter, at more than 40 times earnings in the same quarter a year ago, as healthy sales of flat-panel TVs and digital cameras offset losses in video games. Full text
Reuters - Sony Corp swung to a quarterly operating profit as it booked strong sales of liquid crystal display TVs and digital cameras and benefited from a weaker yen, and it raised its full-year forecast by 2 percent. Full text
Reuters - Pentax Corp said it would delay the launch of its new digital camera after a fire at a lithium-ion battery plant run by Matsushita Electric Industrial Co Ltd's battery unit caused supply disruption. Full text
Reuters - Olympus Corp (7733.T) said it aims for a global share of 20 percent or more in the digital single lens reflex camera market in five years, more than doubling its current share in a sector dominated by Canon Inc (7751.T) and Nikon Corp (7731.T). Full text
USATODAY.com - It's tough getting kids to pose for pictures, much less smile in front of the lens. So I was itching to try the "smile shutter" function on the 8-megapixel Sony Cyber-shot DSC-T200 digital camera I've been testing. The compact $400 point-and-shoot is one of two Sony digital camera models with this brand-new smiley feature. Smile shutter is built around the intriguing notion that the camera will automatically snap a picture the instant your main subject cracks a grin. That suggests no more fretting about shutter lag or other distractions. Full text
PC World - Broadcom Corp. on Tuesday announced a low-power multimedia processor that it said will give cell-phone users access to high-definition video playback, 3D gaming and 12-megapixel camera capabilities without sacrificing battery life. Full text
InfoWorld - Broadcom on Tuesday announced a low-power multimedia processor that it said will give cell-phone users access to high-definition video playback, 3D gaming and 12-megapixel camera capabilities without sacrificing battery life. Full text
Reuters - Memory chipmaker Micron Technology Inc on Tuesday posted a quarterly loss versus a year-ago profit, hit by industrywide declines in prices for chips used in digital cameras, music players and other devices. Full text
TechWeb - The Beat also has a 1.3-megapixel camera and a video recorder, and supports MP3 music files and songs in Microsoft's proprietary Windows Media Audio format. Full text