Kodak Completes Sale of OLED Business

ROCHESTER, N.Y., Dec. 30 — Eastman Kodak Company (NYSE:EK) announced today that it has completed the previously announced sale of its OLED (organic light-emitting diode) business to an entity set up by a group of LG companies. This move will tighten Kodaks investment focus and strengthen its financial position. Financial details were not disclosed. As we said earlier this year, OLED is one of the businesses we wanted to reposition…
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Ricoh developer talks digicam firmware

Japan’s Ricoh Co. Ltd. has posted an interview with one of the company’s development team on the Front Runner section of its website. Engineer Haike Guan works on research and development at Ricoh’s Software Research Center in Beijing, China, including R&D for image processing and image security technologies. In the interview, Mr. Guan discusses his education and background with Ricoh, and goes on to cover some of the specific development work in which he’s played a role. These include lens abberation correction, long-exposure…
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Collaboration Model with a US Fashion Brand

Release of GR DIGITAL III x STUSSY Tokyo, Japan, December 21, 2009Ricoh Co., Ltd. (president and CEO: Shiro Kondo) today announced the release of GR DIGITAL III x STUSSY, a collaboration model with US fashion brand manufacturer STUSSY Incorporated (headquarters: Irvine, California, the United States) which features special coloring. GR DIGITAL III x STUSSY is a modified version of the GR DIGITAL III camera that Ricoh released in August 2009….
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Two Printer Landing Pages Updated!

Canon Pro9500 Mark II and MP640 installation galleries are now up. We’ve posted installation galleries for two of the four printers here for review: Canon Pro9500 Mark II Canon MP640 Multifunction Device You can find the gallery links in the Table of Contents boxes in each review. As with all our installation galleries, these are no mere handful of unboxing shots but dozens of images illustrating how we set up each printer. Our step-by-step approach…
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Top 10 Citizen News Photographs of 2009 Chosen by WeSay.com and Tips on How to Become a Citizen Photojournalist

CHICAGO, IL–(Marketwire – December 29, 2009) – The top 10 citizen news photos of the year, ranging from a collapsed stadium in Malaysia to a helicopter crash in Hong Kong, were selected by editors at WeSay.com, a news site that features photographs of current events taken by amateur photographers. The photographs were selected from thousands of images submitted by more than 11,000 amateur photographers who are members of WeSay.com. “The quality…
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