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...FlashPoint and ActiveShare, are working to make Web-coding capabilities standard features on the internal operating systems of digital cameras. The companies have begun testing wireless solutions with insurance companies and Web auction houses. By next year, Internet-ready SprintPCS phones will be able to hook up to a Kodak DC290 digital camera and send pictures to a Sprint website. Polaroid is developing a $350 digital camera with a built-in modem for release next spring. The first version will require a regular phone-line connection, but future versions could be wireless...
POINT AND BOOT If you like the instant-preview aspect of digital cameras but find the rest just too newfangled, Kodak may have the camera for you. When you shoot a picture with the new Kodak Advantix Preview ($299), it takes a regular old picture on film and captures a digital image at the same time, so you get a sneak peek at the shot you just snapped. That way, if you make that goofy face again, you won't have to wait for the prints to find...
...when I had to pick someone to help me test a new digital picture frame from Kodak--which goes on sale at Kodak.com this week--my high school pal was the obvious choice. After all, what new mom can resist snapping pictures of her precious offspring? And with a Ph.D. in biomedical sciences, she's hardly a technophobe...
Other companies, including Ceiva Logic and Digi-Frame, sell digital frames, but Kodak's is the only one that lets you load pictures directly into the frame, send them over the Net and order prints--all without booting up your PC. The $300 base price, plus $5-to-$10-a-month usage fee, is no bargain, but it's competitive with other digital frames...
...sold primarily to governments, universities, commercial printers and large corporations. Servicing and supporting those machines has been the company's real cash cow. In the past year, however, Canon, IBM and German printer Heidelberger--which, ironically, purchased its technology from Xerox's old Rochester, N.Y., brother-in-arms, Kodak--have come up with a product to rival Xerox's. Though these upstart machines don't have as many bells and whistles, they're more than adequate for companies that increasingly prefer slimmed-down, more open technology that works better with all sorts of software programs. They have also handed customers...