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It's not too late to subscribe to our free newsletter in time to get Friday night's issue with our Holiday Gift Guides. In this week's issue, we've got another exclusive: our 2008 Holiday Gift Guides. Our Camera Gift Guide lists the top digital cameras in a wide range of categories with links to each review and the average street price. Our Grab Bag Gift Guide with everything from books to tripods, including lenses, batteries, bags, straps, f...

Canon USA has today released an official statement updating customers on how to proceed in the wake of rebate fulfilment company CPG's bankruptcy filing. The statement can be read in full on the Canon USA website. Instructions to customers holding rebate checks or intending to apply for rebates are as follows: "If you are holding or receive a rebate check for printer or video pr...

Los Angeles, CA -- November 20, 2008 -- Microtek, a world-leading manufacturer of digital imaging products, announced today a change in its sales strategy for digital imaging products in North America. For the North American market, Microtek is moving from an emphasis on selling a wide portfolio of consumer and professional scanners and digital imaging products to an exclusive emphasis on developing OEM relationships and vertical market opportunities....

(Weymouth, MA) November 13, 2008. . . According to new research from InfoTrends, Digital SLRs (DSLRs) are emerging as an area of rapid growth within the digital camera industry. Lower selling prices, a greater range of models, and better distribution have contributed to the growth in this market. Vendors and service providers that can provide solutions for how consumers connect, share, and create their images will realize success and future growth....

New holiday frames, textures, layouts, backgrounds, and adornments available for all PhotoFrame 3 and 4 owners PORTLAND, Ore. -- November 20, 2008 -- onOne Software, Inc., a leading developer of innovative software tools for photographers, today announced the availability of holiday-themed frames, textures, layouts, backgrounds, and adornments for their award-winning Photoshop plug-ins, PhotoFrame 3 and PhotoFrame 4. The new content adds the perfect...

Personal Publishing Photo Products Pay Off in Tough Retail Climate Vienna, Va., Nov. 20, 2008 – Photo retailers offering a wide variety of creative photo products like photo books, calendars and folded cards are enjoying a strong fourth quarter despite a tough economic environment, according to the latest APM Network data from Lucidiom.  Year-over-year data for the month of October shows that photo book orders increased 576 percent...

CPG Marketing Co. Inc. and Continental Promotion Group Inc., two companies responsible for providing rebate fulfilment services to a wide range of companies, have this week filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy. According to a report in the Tampa Bay Business Journal, the companies have together laid off 17 employees and have liabilities in the tens of millions of dollars. Our friends at the Digital Photography Review are reporting that among the co...

Embedding TDK GBDriver RA8 NAND controller makes possible high-speed, long-life, reliable CFG8A CompactFlash Cards and SDG8A series of HD-compatible Flash discs. November 17, 2008 - TDK Corporation announced today that it will begin sales in December 2008 of the CFG8A series of U.DMA 6-compatible CompactFlash (CF) cards and the SDG8A series of Parallel ATA (PATA) compatible solid state drives (SSD)for industrial applications with a maximum capacity...

Build your own Photoshop Panels by simply drag-and-dropping commands, tools, etc. Adobe has released Adobe Configurator for Photoshop CS4, available immediately as a free download from Adobe Labs. Configurator, an open-source Adobe AIR-based application, allows users to create and share their own Photoshop interface panels that add on to the Flash Platform built into Photoshop CS4. These custom panels help users organize the Photoshop i...

Backpacks Maximize Photographer Air Travel Options SANTA ROSA, CALIF -- Think Tank Photo has enhanced the security features of its lineup of backpacks. With these new design solutions, photographers can now carry their bodies, lenses, and accessories onto aircraft with different carry on requirements, legally store them in overhead bins or under the seat, and secure them to immovable objects once they land. The Airport Addicted V2.0 Think Tank's...

SVA Makes Practice-Based Education Globally Accessible Online Information Session: Monday, December 8, 6:30 - 8:30pm Register at www.sva.edu/gradopenhouse/app New York, NY—November 12, 2008—Beginning in the fall of 2009, the School of Visual Arts (SVA) will offer the Master of Professional Studies (MPS) in Digital Photography Online/Summer-Residency degree. Expanding on the success of the MPS in Digital Photography, which is a...

Kodak Asserts that Samsung and LG Camera Phones Infringe its Digital Camera Patents ROCHESTER, N.Y., Nov. 17 -- Eastman Kodak Company (NYSE:EK) announced today that it has filed complaints against Samsung Electronics, LG Electronics and other related entities for infringement of Kodak patents. The Kodak actions specifically allege that Samsung and LG camera phones infringe Kodak digital camera patents. The patents in question cover technology related...

Ziemlich genau 6 Jahre sind seit der Gründung von SHARKPROJECT e.V. verstrichen. 6 Jahre in denen sich die Organisation zu einer der größten und erfolgreichsten Haischutzorganisationen der Welt entwickelt hat.

Der österreichische Freitaucher Christian Redl kann?s nicht lassen. Nach zwei gelungenen Weltrekorden in einer mexikanischen Süßwasserhöhle tauchte der Extremsportler am letzten Freitag, 14. November 2008 mit nur einem Atemzug im 45-Grad-Winkel abermals ins Innere der Halbinsel Yucatán.

The new flagship Sony T700 is one of the most attractive ultracompact digital cameras around, worthy of Sony's offer to engrave it for you. But inside the Sony T700 is pretty impressive, too, with a Bionz processor, optical image stabilization, face detection that can tell an adult from a child, and smile technology that knows a grin from a laugh. Most impressive, however, is t...

Hiro Sakai Assumes Global Role, Ryutaro Hosoda Named To U.S. Post Valhalla, NY, November 17, 2008 -- FUJIFILM Corporation, Tokyo, Japan, has announced several changes in executive level management, effective November 1, 2008. Ryutaro Hosoda has been named President, FUJIFILM Holdings America Corporation and President and CEO, FUJIFILM U.S.A., Inc.  Mr. Hosoda succeeds Hiro Sakai, who has been named General Manager of the company’s...

Share Large Files: Videos, Photos, Music, & More Totally Private & Encrypted -- Free! Gigatribe's 900,000 Members Share Files For Free With Unlimited File Sizes & Users Through The Internet In An Easy-To-Use Peer To Peer Environment November 17, 2008, Suresnes, France –GigaTribe www.gigatribe.com, the revolutionary free Web 2.0 file sharing software community launched today GigaTribe in the U.S. market. A FREE software community,...

Mit weit über 30.000 aufgegebenen Annoncen ist Tauchers Pinnwand eine der ersten Anlaufstellen im Internet wenn es darum geht, gebrauchtes Tauchgerödel an den Mann oder die Frau zu bringen. Dabei ist die Pinnwand eine der ältesten Seiten zu Thema Tauchsport im Netz...

Zum zweiten Mal ist die >Vienna Boat Show< zu Gast in der Messe Wien. Von Donnerstag, 20. bis Sonntag, 23. November 2008 stehen die Halle C und D der Messe Wien ganz im Zeichen des Boots- und Wassersports.

Eine österreichische Legende des Tauchsports und der Unterwasserfotografie feierte am 6.11.2008 ihren 80. Geburtstag! Die Organisatorin, Edith Altrichter, berichtet über die Feier.