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Kodak on Track to Finish 4-Year Overhaul
After three long years, Eastman Kodak Co. is on track to complete its historic transformation this fall into a digital-imaging company focused on consumer photography and commercial printing, its chief executive says. "The dream when we started was that we will wake up in 2008 with a digital company that we wanted, and we are very close to that," Antonio Perez said in an interview on the eve of Thursday's annual meeting of Kodak analysts and institutional investors. "By the end of the third quarter, basically my hope is that we're done with all the announcements of restructurings and jobs and everything else and we're just fully concentrated on growing" more than a dozen digital ventures from cameras and online photo services to high-volume printing presses, Perez said.
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Nine Network cricket commentator Ian Healy has been caught on camera miming a violin player while injured Australian player Andrew Symonds spoke about breast cancer fund raising. The incident occurred during a break in the first of the tri-series finals between Australia and England at the MCG yesterday. It appears Healy was unaware that the cameras were on him during the incident. He said it was a misunderstanding and it was meant to be a bit of fun between mates. .
Photojournalist and KU Alumnus Receives Wm. Allen White Foundation's National Citation
The William Allen White Foundation awarded KU alumnus and nationally known photojournalist Richard C. Clarkson their National Citation Friday afternoon during a ceremony at Woodruff Auditorium in the Kansas Union. "Rich Clarkson has been a tremendous friend to and supporter of the J-School over the years," said Ann Brill, dean of KU's William Allen White School of Journalism and Mass Communications. "We are so proud of his accomplishments and the nationally he has received." Mr. Clarkson earned journalism degree from KU in 1956. During his career, he was director of photography and senior assistant editor of the National Geographic Society. He also worked as the director of photography with the Topeka Capital-Journal and at the Denver Post. He also worked seven summer and one winter Olympics, organizing all picture coverage for Time during the historic Munich games in 1972 and the Montreal games in Montreal and for Sports Illustrated in Moscow in 1980.In 1996 he was the manager of all photography for the main stadium in Atlanta.
Tiny camera shoots HDTV
The research kids in Germany's Fraunhofer Institute just announced a tiny new video camera capable of shooting at a 1920 x 1080 pixel resolution and a variable frame rate up to 60 frames per second. The MicroHDTV is said to measure a scant 4 x 4 x 8-cm. So either that picture above is not to scale (a Euro is about the size of a US quarter) or they don't include the housing, lens, transmitter, etc. in their dimensions. We'll assume the former since it's said to be small enough to fit in a racing-car cockpit, helmet, or any other tiny space you'd like to broadcast HDTV from. It operates using "standard optical systems" and can be controlled via a web interface across the Internet. It'll be on display at CeBIT in march where we'll see what this baby can do. .
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