Ricoh Buys Pentax

Pentax has long been a major player in the camera world with offerings from actual cameras to lenses alreayd on the market. However, it seems that on October 1st Pentax will no longer exist as a single entity instead being absorbed by Ricoh. The reason we say this is because it was just announced that ...

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Cisco to Kill Off Flip Camera Line

Have your eye set on one of Cisco's Flip pocket camcorders? Well, if you're serious about picking one up you better find a retailer that stocks them and do so fast. The reason I say this is because Cisco has just come forth to let us know that they will officially be killing off their ...

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Adobe reports first ever $1 billion quarter

Anyone who's into photography and creative design for sure knows about Adobe and their countless products, chief of which is Photoshop, loved by many photographers (and those into photo retouching). Now for the first time, Adobe has reported quarterly earnings of $1 billion, which it earned for the fourth quarter of the 2010 fiscal year, ...

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Security Cameras May Be Cost of Doing Business In South Brunswick

Special note if you live in South Brunswick over in New Jersey--if you're planning to own a business out there, legislation is currently in the works that requires you to install security cameras at your business. There's some doubt over just which businesses will be required to add the cameras, and some folks are already a ...

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Cameras Reflecting Need For Bargains

It's no surprise that everybody and his mother is looking for a deal these days.  With the economy still in a death pattern, and cash in short supply, everyone's wanting to save that extra dollar on the things they want. So it's not surprising to see that, almost as a matter of policy, camera prices are ...

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Ritz Camera To Expand Offerings

It's not surprising that Ritz Camera sort of looked at their stores and realized that a store that only sells cameras and camera accessories really can't compete with web sites like Amazon and stores like Best Buy and Wal-Mart, all of which are essentially big-box stores that sell a whole lot more than one particular ...

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Táve updates service, includes 50+ new features

If you've been using Táve's photography studio management application, you will be happy to hear that they have recently updated the service with 50+ new features. According to PhotographyBlog, the new update features all sorts of new customization, contact forms, and a clience access booking engine. But that's not all, there is still an extensive list of ...

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Canon Sales Fall

Canon, on of the major camera makers able to create a substantial export in Japan, reported a sharp fall in profit there in the most recent quarter. Canon has been hit hard by falling demand for its cameras in the Japanese market as well as volatile currency exchange conditions and a general global economic downturn. ...

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Adobe issues job-cuts due to low demand for CS4

It look's like even Adobe, developer of popular image editing software Photoshop, is feeling the hurt from this economic disaster just like the rest of us. They have recently announced that they are being forced to cut 600 jobs worldwide due to the poor consumer reception of their new software stack, Creative Suite 4. While not good ...

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