Thursday, November 1st, 2007 
Posted by untamedkb“The strategies will be implemented from next year and they aim to be the leader of the market by 2010.”
This would put Samsung at #3 behind Canon at 20 million and Sony at 16 digital cameras sold.
Article can be found here.
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Thursday, November 1st, 2007 Posted by untamedkbGreat article on the burgeoning SSD (solid state hard drive) market. The newly released Mtron 32gb drive can hit a maximum write speed of 71mb/s! Easily ahead of a top-of-the-line SATA hard drive.
“The SSD is the fastest storage medium available and not soon to be beaten by anything on the horizon. “
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Thursday, October 25th, 2007 Posted by untamedkbI am excited to announce that we will release a new version of MediaRECOVER for Mac November 5th, 2007! The new release will provide additional support for the new Mac OS X Leopard (10.5) operating system. The current version runs great on the new OS, with the update fixing small minor bugs.
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Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007 Posted by untamedkbSamsung just showed off their new 64gb flash memory chip targeted towards MP3 players and SSD hard drives. The single chip can store 18,000 songs! Paired together they can easily rival common hard drives. Samsung is in a race with Toshiba to release this chip sometime in 2009.
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Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007 Posted by untamedkbThe Sansa TakeTV is a great, simple device from Sandisk that allows you to easily watch video from your computer on your TV. The device is essentially a USB storage drive that plugs into a cradle for viewing on through a composite/s-video out. Don’t expect an HD experience, however you can view DivX, xVid, MPEG-4 and AVI files at a resolution up to 720 x 576. Pricing is steep at $99.99 for a 4gb model and $149.99 for a 8gb model.
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Friday, October 19th, 2007 Posted by untamedkbMajor changes have happened in the digital camera market over the last few years with Canon and Nikon both taking over the former leader Kodak in overall sales to the U.S. market. Samsung, Panasonic and Casio all had amazing years, shipping in excess of 120% more cameras compared to 2005.
According to IDC (courtesy of News.com), the market will hit 114 million units worldwide this year!
| 2005 Shipments | 2005 Share | 2006 Shipments | 2006 share | % Change in Shipments, 2005-2006 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Canon | 5,000,000 | 18 percent | 6,068,500 | 20 percent | 21 percent |
| Sony | 4,780,000 | 17 percent | 4,940,800 | 17 percent | 3 percent |
| Kodak | 7,050,000 | 25 percent | 4,867,000 | 16 percent | minus-31 percent |
| Nikon | 2,326,400 | 8 percent | 3,045,700 | 10 percent | 31 percent |
| HP | 2,130,600 | 8 percent | 2,185,100 | 7 percent | 3 percent |
| Olympus | 1,964,800 | 7 percent | 1,856,500 | 6 percent | minus-5 percent |
| Samsung | 680,500 | 2 percent | 1,496,400 | 5 percent | 120 percent |
| Fujifilm | 1,780,600 | 6 percent | 1,444,700 | 5 percent | minus-19 percent |
| Panasonic | 350,000 | 1 percent | 1,046,300 | 3 percent | 199 percent |
| Casio | 405,000 | 1 percent | 955,000 | 3 percent | 136 percent |
Source: IDC
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Thursday, October 11th, 2007 Posted by untamedkbGreat post over at Photopreneur about using Flickr to grow your photography business. Some of the best points are that the networking in Flickr is second to none, you can easily get feedback on your photos - this helps with experimentation, promotion is far easier on Flickr and best of all it is free!
Also, check out the Flickr blog…amazing pictures!
I do like and use Flickr, but find that Picasaweb is so much easier to use, upload files and share. It would be beneficial to Flickr to have a standalone photo management client.
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Wednesday, October 10th, 2007 Posted by untamedkbNice review article from the British magazine iCreate (you can pick the issue up at any Barnes and Noble). 4 out of 5 stars…not bad!
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Tuesday, October 9th, 2007 Posted by untamedkbPopPhoto.com and Kingston are giving away a brand new 2gb CF card from Kingston. Just fill out the entry form and you are entered to win. While you are there check out all of the content from the Popular Photography and American Photo magazines.
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Tuesday, October 9th, 2007 Posted by untamedkbTodoumpc.com is offering an IDE to CF adaptor that allows you to create a low cost SSD. Check out the video of a boot process after the stock hard drive has been replaced with the DYI SSD.
Video: Utilizando un adaptador IDE CF como HDD en UMPC
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