digital camera

Three Cameras in Focus at CES

Lauren Goode in Commerce on January 14 at 12:08 pm PT

Some electronics companies are making digital cameras “smarter” by adding more Wi-Fi capabilities and apps; others are focusing on doing what they do best — taking pictures.

Cameras Act Like a Pro, but Are as Easy as Pie

Geoffrey A. Fowler in Personal Technology on October 26, 2011 at 4:30 pm PT

Nikon and Sony recently introduced cameras that offer many of the features of much larger models but are simple to use.

Lytro Light Field Camera Revealed

Drake Martinet in AsiaD on October 19, 2011 at 10:59 am PT

Today in San Francisco, digital camera and imaging start-up Lytro is unveiling a digital camera that it claims will be the biggest technological jump since we started talking megapixels.

Camera Has an Eye for Photos, Brain for Wi-Fi

Walt Mossberg in Personal Technology on May 11, 2011 at 6:02 pm PT

Samsung’s SH100 is designed to take the place of camera phones. It took sharp, vivid photos and videos, but the touch screen was hard to use and the wireless function had limitations, says Walt.

BoomTown Decodes Google CEO Schmidt's Shut-Up-You-Whiny-News-Folk Op-Ed (So You Don't Have To)!

Kara Swisher in News on December 3, 2009 at 1:30 pm PT

Google CEO Eric Schmidt did one of his patented throat-clearers in an opinion piece in The Wall Street Journal today and it pretty much begs for translation. Well, BoomTown shall not tarry from the task of decoding the extra-long rumination from the head of Google, who was responding to the recent spate of aggressive attacks by traditional media publishers. They have blamed the search giant for everything from their current business woes to the destruction of journalism to Tiger Woods’s dicey marital troubles. Okay, not that! But the rest for sure.

Spare Change for Apple, RIM or Palm Shares?

John Paczkowski in News on August 18, 2009 at 10:30 am PT

Wise is the investor holding shares in Apple, Research in Motion and/or Palm, because these companies are the triumvirate of tech’s new world order. This according to RBC analyst Mike Abramsky, who in a research note today says all three are positioned for leadership in the “huge, nascent and underpenetrated” smartphone market.

Yahoo Product Head and CTO Ari Balogh Speaks!

Kara Swisher in News on July 2, 2009 at 2:05 pm PT

In BoomTown’s bold quest to annoyingly stick a Flip digital video camera in the face of every Yahoo senior exec, this week I worked the last nerve of its CTO and EVP of Products, Aristotle “Ari” Balogh. Actually, the 45-year-old Balogh is a very calm and pleasant man, especially considering the huge responsibility that has been foisted on him by CEO Carol Bartz to rejigger how Yahoo makes its products and services and deploy its technology in a more efficient, centralized and, most of all, innovative manner. To explain all this, Balogh sat down with me twice–he is clearly a glutton for punishment–to talk about where Yahoo stood as it sought to dig itself out of its long slump and reemerge as the potent Internet force it once was.