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Shoot 1080p video with $149 digital camcorder (CNET)
Lights! Camera! Aiptek’s Action high-def pocket shooter gets a price drop.

Target gift card for the holidays multitasks as adorable digital camera (Engadget)
Filed under: Digital Cameras Okay, we don’t know who came up with this idea, but we have to give them some credit for innovation, not to mention (in our opinion) some pretty attractive design sense. Yes, Target’s new gift card gimmick this holiday season is that it doubles as a cute, disposable digital camera. The little device runs on two AAA batteries, has a self-timer, and is …

Taiwan digital camcorder maker Aiptek to spin off ODM/OEM business (Digi Times)
Taiwan-based digital video camcorder (DVs) and digital camera maker Aiptek International will spin off its ODM/OEM manufacturing business as a wholly owned subsidiary (not yet named in English) in order to focus operations on own-brand marketing, according to a company filing with the Taiwan Stock Exchange (TSE) on November 10.

Staples Announces Top Holiday Products for 2008 (Centre Daily Times)
Staples, Inc. (NASDAQ: SPLS) is making holiday shopping easy this year by offering high-quality gifts at affordable prices, like the new Samsonite airport checkpoint-friendly laptop bags, Sony digital cameras and Omnitech digital photo frames. Staples also knows that sometimes it’s all about the personal touch, so once the technology and travel items are crossed off the list, shoppers can …

Review: Digital frame shows pictures from phones (GMA News)
NEW YORK - Digital picture frames were a big item last Christmas. This holiday season, there will be an innovation on store shelves: a frame that can receive and display pictures straight from cell phones, (almost) no matter where they are.

Oct. 27 (Bloomberg) — Canon Inc. , the world’s largest digital-camera maker, cut its forecast for full-year profit growth to the first decline in nine years as the surging yen undermined overseas sales.

J.D. Power and Associates Honors Panasonic’s LUMIX TZ-Series as Tops in a Tie in Digital Camera Customer Satisfaction … (Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance)
Panasonic’s LUMIX TZ-Series of digital cameras has been honored by J.D. Power and Associates as a top-ranking model in a tie as the highest ranked camera in the J.D. Power and Associates 2008 Digital Camera Usage and Satisfaction Study(SM), “Premium Point and Shoot Segment.” The Panasonic LUMIX TZ-Series received a total of 773 points, based on a 1,000-point scale. The LUMIX TZ-Series also …

Security Fix Live (Washington Post)
Security Fix blogger Brian Krebs answers your questions about the latest computer security threats and offers ways to protect your personal information.

Canon Q3 oper profit down 26 pct, outlook lowered (Reuters via Yahoo! Philippines News)
TOKYO, Oct 27 (Reuters) - Japan’s Canon Inc posted a 26 percent fall in quarterly operating profit and cut its outlook to below market expectations after the global slowdown sent the yen higher and hit demand for copiers and digital cameras.

Discount Chain Big Lots Moves Online (BusinessWeek)

When it comes time for me to shoot movies and take pictures at home one of my kids always wants to help me. The problem is that my HD camcorder and DSLR camera cost a lot of money and I am not comfortable putting them into the hands of a three-year-old or …

Analog’s twilight: Slowly, digital trumps physical (Cape Cod Times)
Things fall apart; Paper burns; Videotape decays; Negatives rot; Slides fade into seas of mid-century yellow and orange; LPs scratch; Cassettes become too tightly wound.

Lexar Elite Photographers to Share Digital Imaging Experiences and Techniques with Visitors to Lexar Booth at … (Broadcast Newsroom)
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AT&T seeks to make more non-phone gadgets wireless (The State)
Latching on to a trend in the wireless industry, AT&T Inc. said Wednesday it has started an initiative to encourage manufacturers to create more non-phone gadgets that connect to its wireless network. The country’s largest wireless carrier said it is looking to expand its reach into computers, digital cameras and in-car entertainment and navigation systems. A digital camera with a built-in …

Nikon D Series Digital SLR Cameras Receive J.D. Power and Associates Award Two Years in a Row for Customer Satisfaction (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
For the second consecutive year, Nikon D Series Cameras rank “Highest in Customer Satisfaction with Digital SLR cameras,” according to the latest “J.D. Power and Associates 2008 Digital Camera Usage and Satisfaction Study.”

Canon Middle East’s new Digital IXUS 980 IS has a totally new design, finished - for the first time - in cool, all-over black.

Canon ships 100 millionth compact digital camera (Zawya)
Dubai, UAE, 13 October 2008: Canon Middle East Canon Middle East is pleased to announce that the company has shipped its 100 millionth digital compact camera. To mark this milestone in popular photography, a special colour variation model will be launched in the near future.

Analog’s twilight: Slowly, digital trumps physical (AP via Yahoo! News)
Sometimes, in the decades after he came home from World War II, it seemed as if the movie camera was surgically attached to Christoffel Teeuwissen’s hand.

Analog s twilight: Slowly, digital trumps physical (Las Vegas Sun)
Mon, Oct 13, 2008 (12:45 p.m.) Sometimes, in the decades after he came home from World War II, it seemed as if the movie camera was surgically attached to Christoffel Teeuwissen’s hand.

Analog’s twilight: Slowly, digital trumps physical (The State)
Sometimes, in the decades after he came home from World War II, it seemed as if the movie camera was surgically attached to Christoffel Teeuwissen’s hand. He carried it everywhere, trained it on everything. When they widened the street in front of his house in Florida, there he was. When a septic tank was installed in West Virginia, there he was. High school football games, construction sites, …

30 years later, cameras are fixtures in courtrooms (Miami Herald)
Nearly 30 years after the Florida Supreme Court allowed television cameras in the courtroom, the move has brought out the best and worst of the judicial system — and the media.

Analog’s twilight: Slowly, digital trumps physical (San Jose Mercury News)
Things fall apart. Paper burns. Videotape decays. Negatives rot. Slides fade into seas of midcentury yellow and orange. LPs scratch. Cassettes become too tightly wound. The ways we have recorded our personal footprints are forever stalked by the ticking clock. The Information Age is changing all that.

Nearly 30 years after the Florida Supreme Court allowed television cameras in the courtroom, the move has brought out the best and worst of the judicial system — and the media.

Analog’s sunset: Slowly, digital trumps physical (GMA News)
From the aisles of Best Buy to the pages of the SkyMall catalog, everywhere are gadgets that will transfer the trappings of personal existence into bits of data that are portable, reproducible and potentially infinite.

Orwellian U.K. Angers People With Tree Cameras, Snooping Kids (Bloomberg)
Oct. 10 (Bloomberg) — Hidden in foliage next to a path in the southeast England seaside town of Hastings are digital cameras. Their target: litterbugs and dog walkers.

The power of mobile in 2008 elections, ECs best option (Ghanaweb.com)
Growth in mobile phone usage should spur the Electoral Commission to leverage on the popularity of the gadget to boost citizens participation in the electoral process, writes Evans Boah-Mensah.

Beyond fair (Missoulian)
Emily Clark, 10 Class: Structures Awards: Blue Ribbon, Best of Show Emily used a disposable camera to snap this photo. It was in Monterey, California, she said. It s like this tunnel of woven metal at a lagoon at a park. It looked really cool.

Review: Canon Powershot SX110 IS digital camera (Computer Active)
Most compact digital cameras have something like a 3x zoom lens, so one with a 10x reach is going to be good for anyone interested in taking candid, unposed photos those best snapped when a subject is unawares.

Do you even have to buy a digital camera anymore? It depends on your needs, but the answer for most of us is yes if you want good-quality photos.

Web-site text loses style in translation (Seattle Times)
Q: I put together my own Web site and I really like how it looks. The only problem is that I was shocked when I showed it to a friend on…

Which IXUS? Choosing the right Canon ultra-compact camera (cnet.com.au)
CNET.com.au provides advice for choosing among Canon’s Digital IXUS ultra-compact digital camera models.

Vision Research Introduces Advanced Digital High-Speed Camera for Airborne Applications (Broadcast Newsroom)
WAYNE, NJ — (Marketwire) — 10/09/08 — Vision Research, a leading manufacturer of high-speed digital imaging systems, today extended its Phantom Miro(TM) family with the launch of Miro Airborne, a digital high-speed camera engineered to specifically withstand the extreme environments associated with airborne applications.

Photographers embrace imperfect images from cheap, retro cameras (Chicago Tribune)
Photographers embrace imperfect images from cheap, retro cameras Dan Zamudio carries his camera in a gray ski cap, tucked between folds of frayed knitting. The camera once belonged to his mother. She died six years ago. His father found it and considered throwing it out until Dan snapped it up.

ESSEN, Germany, BUSINESS WIRE — Arecont Vision, the industry leader in megapixel IP camera technology, is demonstrating the world’s first H.264 panoramic cameras at Security 2008, the top international trade show for the industry.

Digital Life #28: Lapdancing laptops and phones you can touch (cnet.com.au)
Dim the lights, light some candles, fill the bath with bubbles and rose petals and settle in for the sexiest episode of Digital Life to date. Tune in as we turn on the sexiest laptops around. Oh baby!