Kodak reports $191 million second-quarter loss
Eastman Kodak Co., Rochester, N.Y., reported a second-quarter loss of $191 million on sales of $1.766 billion, compared to $200 million in earnings in 2008. Sales were down 29 percent from the same period last year. The company said the results “reflect the weak global economic climate” but expects results to improve in the second [...]
Sears announces pre-sale of Samsung digital cameras
Sears Holdings Corp., Hoffman Estates, Ill., announces an online pre-sale program for customers who want to be among the first to get their hands on the much anticipated Samsung DualView Cameras – the TL225 and TL220 with front and back LCD screens. Now, picture takers will be able to see themselves in the shot to [...]
Leica S2 available in September
Leica Camera AG, Solms, Germany, announcedits new professional SLR, the Leica S2, will be available at the end of September this year. The camera, which was first announced at photokina 2008, features a 37.5 megapixel image sensor in the new format of 30-by-45 mm, which was developed by Eastman Kodak Co., Rochester, N.Y., especially for [...]
LicenseStream spans “America”
Joseph Sohms’ “Visions of America” won the Gold medal for “Best Coffee Table Book at the 13th annual Independent Publishing Awards. The photographer is now licensing those images — and his entire portfolio — with LicenseStream, developer ImageSpan announced. “ImageSpans LicenseStream empowers me to publish all of my photographs directly to my Web site and [...]
ArcSoft teams with Sensio for in-home 3D movies
ArcSoft Inc., Fremont, Calif., is collaborating with Sensio Technologies Inc., Montreal, Quebec, Canada, to ship TotalMedia Theatre 3 in Aspen 3-D Media Servers GL 1000 and GL 3159. Arcsoft says, by incorporating Sensio S3 Decoder, TotalMedia Theatre now allows a 3-D movie watching experience at home. ArcSoft TotalMedia Theatre can now decode and display 3-D [...]
Walmart second quarter earnings exceed consensus estimates
Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Bentonville, Ark., reported net sales for the second quarter were $100.082 billion, a decrease of 1.4 percent from $101.546 billion in the second quarter last year. Without the negative impact of currency exchange rates equal to $4.199 billion, net sales for the quarter increased 2.7 percent to approximately $104.281 billion on a [...]
Kodak adds several products to prepress solutions
Like the existing Automatic Pallet Loader (APL) for the Magnus VLF Platesetter, the new APL for the Magnus 800 Platesetter from Eastman Kodak Co., Rochester, N.Y., enables operators to load an entire pallet of plates into the unit at one time – up to 600, says the company. By eliminating the need to manually handle [...]
Lexmark International Inc., Lexington, Ky., expanded its collaboration with specialty printer manufacturer Primera Technology Inc., to include Lexmark’s color laser print engines and consumables, making in-house, high-volume label printing affordable. “Since 1998, Lexmark inkjet solutions have helped us differentiate our products and services in a competitive marketplace,” said Mark D. Strobel, Primera’s vice president of [...]
Digital River expands e-commerce agreement with Western Digital
Global e-commerce solution provider Digital River Inc., Minneapolis, Minn., expanded its e-commerce agreement with data storage company Western Digital (WD). Digital River recently launched a new online store to help WD expand its online market reach beyond the United States into Canada and Europe. For this expanded site, Digital River is handling online orders, ensuring [...]
