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Kodak Backs Out of Camera Market

As part of its effort to be reborn as a company, Kodak has announced the decision to gradually stop offering digital cameras, pocket video cameras and digital picture frames. Basically, the company is phasing out what used to be a major part of its global business, which means that it will focus on desktop inkjet p...

9 February 2012
16:31 GMT

Apple Trying to Bar Kodak from Obtaining Loans to Continue Patent Dispute

Embroiled in a patent dispute with Apple, Kodak recently filed for bankruptcy, but Apple has asked the court to bar Kodak from obtaining loans, arguing that the disputed patents actually belong to them. Submitted to the US Bankruptcy Court in the Southern District of New York last week, the filing reveals that Kodak...

23 January 2012
05:05 GMT

Troubled Company Kodak Sues Samsung over Galaxy Tab

Looks like the turmoil of patent infringement lawsuits is not even in the least bit over for Samsung, as its Galaxy Tab was targeted again, by Kodak this time. Kodak has definitely stopped playing nice now that its financial position and existence as a brand is being threatened more than ever before. What it did ...

19 January 2012
17:41 GMT

Kodak Files For Bankruptcy amid Digital Revolution

Kodak used to be one of the strongest brands on the photo camera market, but its current position is very slippery, enough so that it had to file for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy. It appears that Kodak simply did not move fast enough to catch the digital camera and camcorder trend, ending up in a precarious financial posi...

19 January 2012
16:41 GMT

Kodak Sues Apple over Patented Imaging Technology

Kodak has issued a complaint to the International Trade Commission (ITC) claiming that Apple’s smartphones and tablets are infringing patents related to technology for transmitting images. Taiwan’s HTC is also targeted by the suit. Eastman Kodak Company has filed separate lawsuits against Apple Inc. and ...

11 January 2012
13:21 GMT

Kodak EasyShare M750 WiFi Camera Pays a Visit to the FCC

Old school cameras are usually the first thing that comes into one’s mind when thinking about Kodak, but its digital models as just as prolific and these will soon get another member in the form of the EasyShare M750.The Wi-Fi enabled camera visited the FCC a while back in order to test its 802.11 b/g/n complia...

14 December 2011
11:01 GMT

Kodak Sells Its Image Sensor Solutions Business

In a move to strengthen the company's financial position and sharpen its operational focus, Kodak has recently announced that it has completed the sale of its Image Sensor Solutions (ISS) business to Platinum Equity.The financial details of the transaction weren't disclosed, but Kodak has mentioned that thi...

9 November 2011
09:00 GMT

Kodak Goes Underwater with PlayFull Camera

Water is the bane of electronics but there are some products that defy this limitation, such as the newest video and photo camera that Kodak created and already sent out to stores. Contrary to what people may think, saying that a device is waterproof can mean a number of things. While 'true' waterpro...

3 October 2011
04:24 GMT

Kodak EasyShare Touch M5370 Digital Camera Appears

There has certainly been no shortage of new photo and video cameras lately, so the fact that Kodak has begun to ship a certain model of its own probably won't garner too much surprise. Cameras have been advancing in leaps and bounds, the same way that the standard image quality accepted on multimedia devices...

14 September 2011
06:03 GMT

ITC Refuses to Review Apple-Kodak Patent Ruling

The U.S. International Trade Commission has determined not to review a May 12 ruling by an ITC administrative law judge that Kodak did not infringe Apple's patents. On May 12, 2011, the administrative law judge (ALJ) issued his final ID, finding no violation by Kodak with respect to any of the asserted claims...

19 July 2011
10:31 GMT

Apple Losing in Patent Case with Kodak

Kodak has announced that the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) modified key findings of an ITC judge’s initial recommendation in its patent infringement claim against Apple and Research In Motion (RIM), in response to the company’s request. The patent in question relates to a method invented by...

1 July 2011
05:20 GMT

Kodak Announces Pick Flick Application for Android Devices

Kodak, the imaging innovator, has just announced the availability of its Android printing solution, KODAK Pick Flick. The application enables users with Android devices to print their photos directly to their wireless KODAK All-in-One Printer. Unfortunately, those who think of installing the application to prin...

30 June 2011
12:31 GMT

Kodak Confident It Will Win Patent Suit Against Apple, RIM

The Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) in the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) action brought by Kodak against Apple Inc. and Research In Motion (RIM) has issued an initial determination. ALJ notes that the patent claim at issue is invalid and did not find proof of infringement, Eastman Kodak Company (Kodak) rev...

25 January 2011
04:34 GMT

Kodak Also Brings PLAYFULL and PLAYSPORT Camcorders to CES 2011

As mentioned before, Kodak's lineup for CES 2011 proves to be quite serious, the company rolling out, beside the three compact digital cameras we've talked about earlier, two new digital video cameras, the KODAK PLAYFULL and KODAK PLAYSPORT.As the company informs us, the KODAK PLAYFULL Video Camera is ...

4 January 2011
15:51 GMT

KODAK PULSE Digital Frame Also Makes CES 2011 Appearance

Given the fact that users do require a digital photo frame in order to display the photos they've just taken using their new digital cameras, Kodak also unveiled at CES 2011 the next generation of its KODAK PULSE Digital Frame, that provides quick and easy access to a host of social networking services.With the ...

4 January 2011
06:31 GMT

CES 2011: Kodak Intros EASYSHARE Touch, Mini and Sport Compact Digital Cameras

Although CES doesn't officially open its gates until Thursday, the 6'th of January, we're already faced with a flood of new product announcements, the latest coming from Kodak, whose rather impressive CES 2011 lineup also includes three new compact digital camera models, the EASYSHARE TOUCH, MINI and S...

4 January 2011
02:35 GMT

NEC and Kodak Sign License Agreement

It would seem that new antitrust lawsuits are not the only developments sprouting up during the holidays, as certain companies, like NEC and Kodak, also took the opportunity to establish other types of relationships.It would seem that, once again, two companies in the IT industry decided it was time to set up a mutu...

28 December 2010
07:17 GMT

Apple in New Legal Fights with Kodak, MONKEYmedia

Apple has reportedly filed new claims of patent infringement against Kodak with the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC). Apple’s filing lists two USPTO granted patents, one for “System and method for using a unified memory architecture to implement a digital camera device,” the other for &ldqu...

14 May 2010
05:49 GMT

Apple Countersues Kodak

After being sued by Kodak over imaging-related patents, Apple has sued back with its own patent-related suit, which the Mac maker filed just last week with the US International Trade Commission. On the ITC 337 Law Blog, a post reports that the ITC has agreed to look into Apple’s complaint, which alleges that Ko...

20 April 2010
08:33 GMT

Kodak Sues Apple

Eastman Kodak Company (Kodak) has recently announced that it has filed lawsuits against Apple and BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion Limited (RIM), alleging the infringement of digital imaging technology invented by the company specializing in photography. Kodak claims to have licensed digital imaging technology to...

15 January 2010
05:07 GMT

Cross-License Agreement Signed by Kodak and Samsung

Often, companies will sign cross-patent agreements in order to push their technologies forward or to simply settle certain patent-infringement lawsuits, legal actions that emerge between competing companies. Two technology corporations that are eager to build more and better technologies are Eastman Kodak Company and...

11 January 2010
09:06 GMT

Kodak Sells OLED Business to LG, Both Enter Cross-Patent Agreement

Kodak and LG announced not one but two agreements that would effectively end the patent litigation, which has been going on since earlier this year, involving a subset of their imaging technologies. The two agreements include Kodak's decision to sell all assets of its OLED business to LG, as well as signing a fu...

4 December 2009
10:55 GMT

Kodak Is Suing Samsung and LG

Kodak has started what the tabloids might call a scandal by taking Samsung and LG to court about the infringement of certain digital camera patents. This hostile action is surely to be regarded as damaging to Samsung and LG's overall image, at least from a regular user's point of view. Kodak representatives...

18 November 2008
09:15 GMT

Kodak Develops Green Dopant-Based OLED Material

Kodak has been quite actively involved in the development of OLED displays over the past couple of years, and the results are beginning to show as we speak. First, it launched that wireless, OLED – only digital photo frame a while back, and now it's time for yet another innovation in the field, n...

26 October 2008
22:39 GMT

Nokia and Kodak Sign Patent Agreement

Kodak is a name known by almost, if not, everybody. The American multinational public company produces imaging and photographic materials, plus equipment. Recently, Kodak has been re-focusing on two major markets: digital and photography.It seems that the mobile phone manufacturer Nokia took some interest in what Kod...

21 October 2008
11:11 GMT

Lexar Introduces Kodak-Branded 16 GB SDHC Card

Cross-promotions between digital camera makers and memory card manufacturers have always enjoyed quite a high level of success, and that's simply because, typically, most users also purchase a memory card whenever they go shopping for a new digital camera. And that's also the case with the Lexar – Kod...

23 September 2008
10:21 GMT

New Kodak Wireless AIO Inkjet Printers Tout Lowest Ink Replacement Cost Ever

As some of you might know, the ink used for inkjet printers is among the most expensive substances on the planet. However, in order to make their products more attractive for budget-conscious users, the most important manufacturers from this particular segment are now focusing on reducing the printing costs as much a...

23 September 2008
05:16 GMT

Kodak Intros World's First OLED Wireless Digital Photo Frame

Kodak occupies a very important place in the history of photography, although it was caught a bit unprepared by the rapid advent of digital cameras. Nevertheless, the company is doing everything in its power to regain the lost ground, so it also got actively involved on the digital photo frame market. Actually, it�...

17 September 2008
10:01 GMT

Motorola ZN5 Announced for India

Motorola's best camera phone, the MOTOZINE ZN5, will be soon available in India, offering mobile users from across the Asian country the chance to own the first-ever mobile device created in collaboration with Kodak. The phone's highlight is, of course, its photo camera, which has 5 Megapixels and come...

1 September 2008
04:23 GMT

MotoZine ZN5 Is Official, China Gets It First

Motorola ZN5, of which we've heard several times since the beginning of 2008, was officially announced today, under the name of MotoZine ZN5. The handset is the first resulting from a collaboration between Motorola and Kodak and it's said to combine the best technologies of the two famous companies in order...

23 June 2008
02:55 GMT

New 5 Megapixel Motorola Slider Leaked

A brand new Motorola handset has been recently spotted on the Web, and it seems that this is another phone made by Moto in collaboration with Kodak. The first Moto-Kodak device is the ZN5, which was seen in real and clear photos about one month ago. And while we know almost all there is to know about ZN5, the new Mo...

31 May 2008
06:53 GMT

The MotoKodak ZN5 in Official Pics

Motorola ZN5 is finally unveiled in official images, after several leaked and not quite clear pictures with it have been let loose on the Web, showing what seemed to be a really nice phone. Well, Moto ZN5 is indeed nice, as its official, high-resolution and watermark-free pictures clearly show it. As rumored, Mot...

5 May 2008
03:16 GMT

Motorola MotoZine ZN5 Leaked Details

MotoZine ZN5 is one of the recently rumored Motorola high-end handsets that should be released by the American company until the end of this year. Together with other new Moto phones that will probably be showcased during CTIA Wireless 2008 (1 - 3 April), MotoZine ZN5 is set to reconquer the leading position that Mot...

24 March 2008
22:31 GMT

Motorola to Play Big Role at CTIA Wireless 2008

Motorola is not really in its best period since it's in the mobile phone industry. This will apparently change after the 2008 edition of CTIA Wireless (1 - 3 April, Las Vegas), where the American company plans to unveil several of its new handsets set to wow mobile users around the globe. According to a video re...

12 March 2008
10:43 GMT

CES 2008: Kodak Announces New V, M and Z Point and Shoots

In the "good" fashion of coming out with countless models of digital cameras, Kodak has announced at CES 2008 new point and shoots to suit the tastes of many consumers. Moreover, the company behind the Brownie camera also announced an All-in-One Printer that comes with an interesting Facial Retouch feature.The Kodak ...

10 January 2008
06:30 GMT

Kodak Claims Pros Still Use Film

Kodak recently issued a press release aimed at showing photographers that film is still going strong among professionals. "A survey of more than 9,000 professional photographers in the U.S. shows that film continues to have an avid following, with 75 percent of photographers saying they will continue to use film, eve...

21 September 2007
09:45 GMT

Kodak Joins the Announcement Frenzy

Nikon is not the only one to refresh its compact lineup as Kodak also has some new models in store. The Eastman-Kodak company is playing the high definition card, all of the new models being able to show images on your HD TV set, if of course, you have one. Aside from this trick, which by the way can be performed by ...

30 August 2007
08:26 GMT

Kodak Easyshare C513, the First Point and Shoot with a CMOS Sensor

Despite the "gruesome" PR war between Sony and Canon, it appears that Kodak has smithed them both with the announcement of the first point and shoot digital camera that uses a CMOS sensor. If we were to be completely honest, Sony's R1 is the first non-SLR camera with a CMOS sensor, but the model is not quite a p...

24 July 2007
10:48 GMT

Let There Be More Light with Kodak's New Sensor Design

Since the beginning of digital photography, manufacturers have tried to improve sensors so as to capture more detail at high sensitivities. Kodak claim that they've succeeded in changing the original Bayer design, invented in 1976 by the famous Kodak researcher Dr. Bryce Bayer, resulting in sensitivities two tim...

15 June 2007
03:53 GMT

Motorola and Kodak to Launch a 5 Megapixel Camera Phone

Motorola and Kodak announced more than a year ago a cross licensing and marketing alliance created in the attempt to boost the image capture experience of camera cell phones. This announcement was well received by everyone and great expectations followed. To show the customers that they really want to make camera ph...

23 May 2007
10:44 GMT


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