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End of an era: Kodak discontinues camera business
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The company says that its digital cameras, pocket video cameras, and digital picture frames will be phased out entirely in the first half of 2012....
Kodak to shutter digital camera production this year
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This year has not been a kind one for Kodak. Last month, the photography pioneer announced that it was filing for bankruptcy (and suing Samsung, incidentally), and now the company has let it be known that it will be dropping out of the digital camera business -- and then...
Daily Crunch: Circuit
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Here are some recent stories on TechCrunch Gadgets: Is Google Hard At Work On New Home Entertainment System? Microsoft Explains Windows On ARM, The Latest Addition To The OS Family Kodak Shutters Digital Camera Business In Favor Of Licensing, Photo Printing You Can Buy Me Love, But Please Don’t Buy...
Kodak faces patent ruling setback
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A ruling that one of Kodak's digital imaging patents is too "obvious" to be enforced calls into doubt the value of its other innovations....
Kodak to cease production of digital cameras to focus on more profitable products
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In the wake of its bankruptcy filing last month, Kodak is reportedly ceasing all production of digital cameras, pocket video cameras, and digital photo frames to focus on photo printing products and desktop inkjet printers going forward. This decision was made so the company could focus on the parts...
Kodak beats patent sale challenge
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A US bankruptcy court gives Kodak permission to sell more than 1,100 patents despite a legal challenge by Apple...
Kodak's image-sensor spin-off gets a name: Truesense
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The image-sensor division, now owned by Platinum Equity, picks up the brand name of some of its products....
Kodak given all-clear to sell its patents
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Kodak has been given a courtroom approval to find a seller for its patents as part of a bankruptcy restructuring plan, despite opposition from Apple. [Read more]...
Kodak to stop making cameras, end era
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Kodak validated rumors and said Thursday that it would stop making what most consider its core products. It plans to shut down production of still cameras, pocket video cameras, and digital photo frames within the first half of this year. The shift would leave it to inkjet printers and other...
Kodak patent sale to move forward in spite of Apple ownership claims
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A bankruptcy court judge has approved the sale of a collection of over 1,100 of Kodak's patents in spite of Apple's attempts to block the auction on the grounds that it has a claim on some of the intellectual property....
CanvasPop lets you print your low-res Facebook photos direct to large-format canvas
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Facebook hit sixty billion hosted photos by February 2011, and with around 6bn photos uploaded each month, this figure will now be well in excess of 100bn. Facebook is the number one photo-hosting website in the world, and as such canvas-printing company CanvasPop is opening its service up to the...
Kodak's Decline Continues as Digital Cameras Get the Ax
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Kodak, once a symbol of technological innovation, is lately looking more like a textbook example of a disrupted company. The company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection last month, after years of struggling to keep up in a landscape dominated by digital cameras, smartphones and photo-sharing apps. One of...
Kodak patent sale a go despite claims by Apple, FlashPoint
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A US bankruptcy court has approved a Kodak effort to auction off over 1,100 patents, reports Agence France-Presse. Potential buyers must submit bids on a confidential basis; Kodak expects the auction to be held in early August. The main collection in the auction will include some 700 digital capture patents,...
The Future of Photo-Sharing Apps
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The tiny Instagram app grew to a gigantic 27 million users during its first year in the App Store. It has inspired real-life Instameet-ups, Instagram art shows and a community based on love for the image, where users can post and receive feedback from other visual thinkers. Instagrams are not...
Kodak plans to sell off digital imaging patents
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Kodak has filed proceedings to enable the bankrupt company to sell off its digital imaging patents. With a looming June 30th deadline in its lending agreement, the fallen camera maker is petitioning the court to approve a closed bids auction at a hearing on July 2nd. The company has...
Kodak Axing Digital Cameras Business
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At one time, Kodak had more than 90 percent of the market share of film sales in the U.S, but the 131-year-old company struggled since the introduction of digital cameras....
Kodak wins clearance to sell digital imaging patents
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A bankruptcy court in New York has given Kodak clearance to sell off its digital imaging patents, despite objections from Apple and FlashPoint Technologies. Apple and FlashPoint initially challenged Kodak's patent auction back in January, claiming ownership over ten of the patent assets up for sale. Kodak finally responded...
Fujifilm to end APS film sales this month, marking the end of an era
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While we've recently seen the resurrection of 110 and Polaroid film, other formats aren't going to be quite so lucky. Fujifilm, the only remaining vendor of APS film, has said that it will stop selling the 24mm cartridge format to suppliers at the end of this month. The company...
Google Cloud Print adds FedEx, Canon to remote printing roster, throws Android users a PDF bone
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Chrome users are in store for a bundle of printing perks today courtesy of a recent update to Google Cloud Print. In addition to wirelessly sending documents to nearby printers, Mountain View's now adding FedEx to the drop down destination list, granting users the ability to obtain retrieval codes...
Kodak to stop making digital cameras as struggles continue
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Kodak said it will stop making digital cameras, pocket video cameras and digital picture frames in order to focus on more profitable products, reports the Associated Press. The move isn’t surprising, as the company is slowly emerging from last month’s Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing. “Our goal is to maximize value for...
Kodak moves to block Apple's latest patent suit from proceeding in federal district court
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In a move that's sure to surprise no one, Kodak is fighting Apple's latest round of patent litigation -- a suit that would force Kodak to pause plans to sell up to $2.6 billion in digital imaging patents as a condition of its bankruptcy loan. In documents filed late...
Lomography, an Analog Company Surviving in a Digital World
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Lomography, a company that sells quirky film cameras, has managed to stay afloat by cultivating a niche audience, despite the struggles of other photography companies like Kodak and Polaroid. Although Lomography regularly designs and releases new cameras and different kinds of film each year, it has no plans to make...
So, Kodak -- about that nuclear reactor in your basement
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It seems that, until 2006, Kodak had a basement that housed a nuclear reactor, complete with a cache of weapons-grade uranium. How did the company get away with that? [Read more]...
Google Cloud Print now lets you print to any FedEx Office location in the US
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Sometimes printing something out physically is necessary, be it for a meeting or for event tickets. I personally haven’t had a printer in my home for the past two years, but definitely get into a pinch sometimes when printing something is absolutely necessary. Until the days of paper are over,...
Snapguide Becomes First iOS App With Pinterest Integration
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Snapguide today rolled out an update to its iPhone application that lets users share the slick “how-to” guides built on the app directly to Pinterest. App updates aren’t always big deals, but this one is: It means that Snapguide is the first iOS app with a Pinterest integration built-in. A...
Kodak's bankruptcy auction plan
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Kodak files a motion with a US bankruptcy court to sell off more than 1,000 patents to save the firm....
Google Cloud Print can now "print" to an Android device or local FedEx store
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Although modern computing devices and software offer much richer ways to consume, manipulate, and share content, there are still people who prefer to put their documents and images on slices of dead tree. Google introduced a service called Cloud Print in 2010 with the aim of helping said people...
Kodak’s HQ secretly housed a nuclear reactor for over 30 years
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Kodak may have specialized in cameras, but according some recent revelations, the beleaguered and recently-bankrupt company also tried its hand at nuclear research. For thirty years, Kodak housed under its Rochester headquarters a research reactor equipped with over three pounds of enriched uranium. Kept secret, the uranium was removed in 2007, Democrat and...
Kodak gets the go-ahead for $950 million bankruptcy financing
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Kodak has won approval to borrow $950 million to finance its restructuring process, after filing for bankruptcy last month. The confirmation of the funding should allow the company to continue operating while it considers how to move forward. Kodak received the full amount it had requested despite some legal...
Why Instagram is the New Camera
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It's the moment all Android users have been waiting for: Instagram is now available on Android. Instagram CEO Kevin Systrom has been hinting at the making of an Instagram Android app, calling it a "major priority" for the Instagram team. Up until today, Instagram has only been available on iOS....
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