Petters reported to be cutting Polaroid R&D, digital plans.
Petters Group Worldwide LLC is reported to be abandoning Polaroid Corporation's digital imaging technology and laying off most of its R&D staff according to an article in the August 2, 2005 edition of the Boston Globe. These developments come only months after Petters completed its takeover of...

How to cut the bureaucracy in half; understanding slot syndrome, headless nails, meeting mania, and other government gimmicks.
by Scott Shuger In the summer of 1940, in order to accommodate the many new military agencies then cropping up in Washington, Franklin Roosevelt authorized the construction of office buildings all along the city's Mall. Roosevelt had wanted the buildings, which quickly became known as "tempos," to be so...

Kodak to increase paper production.
Eastman Kodak Company will increase production of color negative photographic papers used by pro and commercial customers in the U.S. and Canada at its Windsor, CO, facility, a move designed to improve the company's support of its professional and commercial laboratory customers. Prior to this, Kodak had been supplying...

Fujifilm joins inkjet paper market.
Fuji Photo Film U.S.A., Inc., has introduced Fujifilm Premium Plus High Gloss Photo Paper for consumer inkjet printing. The paper is compatible with all inkjet printers, and comes in 4x6- and 8 l/2x11-inch sizes. Fujifilm's inkjer paper is currently available at select retailers, with widespread distribution planned for the...

Kodak to discontinue sales of APS cameras worldwide; 35mm cameras in select markets.
In an effort to continue the digitally oriented growth strategy of the company, Eastman Kodak will be discontinuing distribution of Kodak reloadable 35mm film cameras in the United States, Canada, and Western Europe by the end of this year. Kodak will also be ending the distribution of all reloadable...

Dry process film kiosk from Kodak in Detroit test.
After a largely successful (with a few glitches) preview of its dry process film kiosk at PMA 2004, Kodak is set to roll out the units for a test in the Detroit metropolitan area. According to Kodak officials, a small number of test units of the Kodak Picture Maker...

Ways of seeing: the Eastman house reveals how photography has transformed science.
THREE INVENTIONS HAVE LITERALLY changed the way we see the world. The telescope allowed us to gaze into the heavens; the microscope, to peer into our very cells. And the camera stopped time in its tracks, giving permanency to the ephemeral and the evanescent. Those captured images stirred scientific...

Focus!
Long bound by conventional theory, film is set to take a quantum leap in resolution HAS ANYONE CHANGED THE WORLD AS UTTERLY AND GOTTEN AS LITTLE CREDIT for it as Joseph-Nicephore Niepce? People with any notion at all of who invented photography usually think it was that...

Kodak's All-in-One Printers Get PC Magazine's '2008 Readers' Choice Award.
ENTERTAINMENT CLOSE-UP-19 August 2008-Kodak's All-in-One Printers Get PC Magazine's '2008 Readers' Choice Award(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com Eastman Kodak announced that the company's consumer all-in-one (AiO) inkjet printers have received PC Magazine's 2008 Readers' Choice Award in the Printer Category. "We're thrilled to learn that...

Lucky Film and Kodak ends cooperative partnership.
On November 13th, Lucky Film Co. Ltd. (Lucky Film, SH: 600135), China's largest photo film producer, announced that it has ended its four-year partnership with Eastman Kodak Co., Ltd. Under the agreement signed between Lucky Film Group--the parent of Lucky Film and Kodak November 8th this year,...