W/E Sunday Jan 6th

[Kym]

http://www.news.com.au/entertainment...-1226546701609

A PAPARAZZO has been fatally struck by a car after taking photos of Justin Bieber's white Ferrari on a Los Angeles street.

LA police Officer James Stoughton says the photographer, who was not identified, died at a hospital shortly after the crash on Tuesday evening.

Stoughton says Bieber was not in the Ferrari at the time.

[Kym]

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/...-1-100-patents

BANKRUPT IMAGING OUTFIT Kodak has received a bid of more than $500m for 1,100 of its patents.

Kodak, which is languishing in bankruptcy court after years of falling behind its rivals, has been trying to sell 1,100 patents that relate to digital imaging for over 18 months. Now the firm has received a bid of more than $500m from a consortium for its patents.

Kodak had claimed its patents would be worth billions but until now had only received bids around the $250m mark. The firm needs to sell part of its patent portfolio in order to secure loans offered on the premise that its patents can be sold for $500m or more.

While Kodak is trying to sell its patents to generate cash, the firm has been slashing costs by cutting staff and concentrating on high margin businesses. The firm claims it will rake in $2.7bn in 2013 with what is left of the business.

Kodak might have only half-heartedly got into the digital imaging business due to over-reliance on film sales, but the firm did considerable research and development in that field. That the firm couldn't even monetise its patents is a strong indication of how short-sighted the company was about realising the value of digital imaging. µ

Edit:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000...KEYWORDS=kodak

[Kym]

http://arstechnica.com/information-t...o-get-noticed/

Microsoft's browser was virtually unchanged, up 0.01 points at 54.77 percent. Firefox was down 0.62 points at 19.82 percent, dropping below 20 percent for the second time in three months. Chrome was up 0.8 points to 18.04 percent, its first gain since August. Of the also-rans, Safari was down slightly, dropping 0.09 points to 5.24 percent, and Opera was up 0.04 points to 1.71 percent.

But on AP... (2012)

Firefox 38.9 %
MS Internet Explorer 22.1 %
Google Chrome 21 %
Safari 14.9 %
Opera 1.5 %

[Kym]

http://www.cesweb.org/Show-Floor/By-...ategory.aspx#7

Not much to see yet

This has more info http://ces.cnet.com/8301-34440_1-575...nd-camcorders/

[Granville]

I heard one report that it wasn't even Bieber's Ferrari. The guy just thought it was.

[Kym]

I heard one report that it wasn't even Bieber's Ferrari. The guy just thought it was.

[ricktas]

Samsung Galaxy Camera gets an OS update: Android V 4.1.2

http://www.youmobile.org/blogs/entry...-GALAXY-Camera

[ricktas]

A new iOS app is available for those who use Apple devices. Marksta allows you to add a watermark to your photos via your iPhone or iPad, then you can share them on the social networks or even to AP using Tapatalk or Forumrunner.

Just search for Marksta in the Appstore

[ricktas]

Nikon patents a semi transparent LCD screen. The idea being that you can flip it up and see the LCD screen with the real view visible through the LCD. Interesting idea, especially for composing your shots

http://www.popphoto.com/gear/2013/01...creens-cameras

[Kym]

http://www.pentax.jp/english/news/2012/20121226.html

PENTAX RICOH IMAGING COMPANY, LTD. is pleased to announce that the PENTAX K-30 lens-interchangeable digital SLR camera has been selected as the iF Product Design Award winner of the internationally acclaimed iF Design Awards, presented by Germany’s iF International Forum Design GmbH.

The iF Design Awards have been annually presented since 1953 by iF International Forum Design GmbH, a Hannover-based industrial design organization. Out of thousands of entries submitted from around the world, its jury selects distinguished industrial designs in three different categories: product design, communication design and packaging design. The iF Product Design Award is presented to products that demonstrate overall excellence as an industrial product, based not only on their originality and innovation in design, but also on their functionality, quality and eco-friendliness.

Also a firmware update for the 645D