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...larger than a credit card. Sony's T1 set the bar a year and a half back, but by now the field is littered. Sony has since replaced its T1 with two models, the T33 and the improbably slim T7, and everybody from Casio and Canon to Fujifilm and Kodak has a similar product. Now Nikon is making its first foray into Ultracompactville with two new CoolPix models, the S1 and the splash-proof S2. I checked out the S1. It combines high performance with some highly evolved features that frankly took me by surprise...
Inspired by Wikipedia, a Silicon Valley start-up called Socialtext has helped set up wikis at a hundred companies, including Nokia and Kodak. Business wikis are being used for project management, mission statements and cross-company collaborations. Instead of e-mailing a vital Word document to your co-workers-and creating confusion about which version is the most up-to-date-you can now literally all be on the same page: as a wiki Web page, the document automatically reflects all changes by team members. Socialtext CEO Ross Mayfield claims that accelerates project cycles 25%. "A lot of people...
EXTRAS New Kodak Mobile service lets you send pics to your online account from your camera phone...
Other firms have already introduced 8-mm machines, without much success. Analysts estimate that Kodak's camcorder, first brought out in 1984, has sold only about 10,000 units. The new format is a big gamble for Sony that could take several years to pay off. It may also be a concession that Sony's pioneering Beta format, once considered technically superior to VHS, has no future. VHS now outsells Beta by 4 to 1. REAL ESTATE Xeroxville, U.S.A., in Virginia...
...PlayStation too-has gone adrift in an age of increasing competition and digital convergence. Its core electronics business, which accounts for more than 60% of revenue (but lost $339 million last year), has been beset by successful competitors in virtually all its product lines, ranging from Samsung televisions to Kodak digital cameras. Most humiliating, Sony lost its leadership in portable music players by failing to capitalize on the popularity of MP3 files, a gap that Apple's iPod-an idea that would once have shrieked "Sony!"-has exploited spectacularly. The Japanese company has been in turmoil ever since April...