Motorola recruits eight photographers in eight cities to capture 'a day in the life of the world'

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Motorola has just kicked in with a new marketing campaign for its Motozine ZN5 mobile. The phone features a five megapixel camera, developed in conjunction with Kodak, and so Motorola’s recruited eight photographers around the world to capture the essence of the city they live in, using the ZN5.

The photographers had to stay awake for 24 hours taking photos, but the results are surprisingly awesome. There’s a lovely picture of a taxi and a white van at 17:00 in London, and a beautifully muted shot of a railway station in Mumbai at 13:00. The Moscow subway at 01:00 is incredible, too.

Kodak to launch two all-in-one inkjet printers with low-cost ink refills

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Kodak has announced its latest series of inkjet printers, the ESP 7 (pictured) and ESP 9, featuring the ability to print, copy, scan, and fax documents. Nothing particularly new there, but what is welcome is that Kodak claims to offer the lowest ink replacement cost in the industry.

Printer consumables is where the serious money is made, but Kodak’s printing technology and premium-quality inks could save users up to £75 per year (has anyone thought about setting up an ink cartridge price comparison site?)…

Kodak intros Zi6 pocket high definition video camera

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Kodak has announced that its Zi6 pocket high definition video camera will be available from August, offering 720p recording at 60 frames per second, a 2x optical zoom, 128MB of internal memory with card expansion slot, capture in the H.264 format, three megapixel still photos, and a mono microphone.

It has a 2.4-inch colour LCD screen for viewing and reviewing, is powered from two AA batteries, though you could use rechargeable ones, measures 64 × 114 × 23.5 mm and weighs 107g…

Kodak Theatre HD Player: your photos and the Internet on your HDTV

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Kodak has announced the Theatre HD Player, a digital box which will give wireless access to music, video, and pictures stored on other computers in the home, or across the Internet.

It can grab multimedia from networked PCs, memory card, USB storage, a Kodak EasyShare camera, photo sharing web sites, Internet radio stations, and podcast sites. It also allows you to send and receive photos and albums using Kodak’s Picture Mail function…

Kodak announces KAC-05020 Image Sensor technology that could revolutionise mobile handsets

KodakLogo1%282%29.jpgAny company that promises convergence is bound to get column inches, particularly if it’s regarding 5-megapixel cameras within mobile phones.

Kodak is the manufacturer to give us that – hopefully – with its KAC-05020 Image Sensor reported to be the world’s first 1.4 micron and 5-megapixel sensor. Not only is this good for consumers, downsizing on the number of gadgets we carry day to day, but manufacturers are rejoicing, as the sensors…

Opinion: Digital photo frames, are they really worth the cash?

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Now Sony has entered the er, frame, in manufacturing digital photo frames, the Editor-in-Chief posed the question of does this now mean they are serious bits of techno kit.

Well, with so many on sale now, ranging from the £50 cheap to the £200 expensive, they have – in recent months – become best-sellers on many high streets. In fact, recent sales figures show more than a MILLION of them were sold last year…