Word: kodaks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Granted, as TIME reported last April, numerous FORTUNE 500 firms, from Xerox to Kodak, have already made the big pension switch--moving millions of employees from the traditional system, which rewards longevity and piles up cash in a worker's last years of service, to more flexible, so-called cash-balance plans. The new model lets workers build up their nest eggs at a steadier pace and take the balance from job to job. It is more consistent with today's career cycle. But when IBM announced its conversion in May, thousands of middle-aged IBM workers, hardly known...
...number of TIME readers after my July 5 column about PictureCD, a Kodak service that converts 35-mm and APS film to images that come on a CD-ROM, complete with easy-to-use editing software. I got mail from lots of people who want to know whether PictureCD also does slides. Not yet, I'm told. For now, Kodak fans can try PhotoCD, a more expensive service that requires the user to supply his or her own editing software...
...avoided digital cameras, which bypass film and shoot directly to disc, because the sub-$500 models are sub-snuff in the quality department. That left low-cost scanners (which convert paper photos to digital bits) and Picture CD, a new photo-to-digits service from Kodak and Intel that's being introduced this month...
...contrast, the Kodak-Intel Picture CD is simple and fun. You drop off your 35-mm or APS film at a participating photo center (Walgreen's, Wal-mart, CVS, Target or Eckerd Drug, to name a few) and pay $10 or so more than you would for print-only processing. The Picture CD package you get back includes a contact sheet, a set of paper prints and a CD with digital renderings of your photos. Put the CD in your computer's CD-ROM drive, and you'll see the images displayed in an interface that looks like a magazine...
...only problem I ran into came from clueless photo finishers. My local photo store claimed it sold Picture CD, but it turned out I was being offered another Kodak service, called Photo CD--a photos-to-disc process geared toward professionals that has been around for seven years, costs more than twice as much and requires users to have their own image-editing software. Another issue: Mac users will have to wait until summer's end for Picture CD. It may be worth it. I found that Picture CD gave me as much technology as I needed. The only thing...