digital cameras

YooMee Games Opens the Chuck E. Cheese of Online Arcades

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on February 8, 2011 at 4:30 am PT

What do you get when you give casual game players the chance to compete for cash and prizes? A really addictive experience. Or at least that’s the hope of YooMee Games.

Eye-Fi Aims to Teach Memory Cards Another New Trick

Ina Fried in Mobile on January 4, 2011 at 6:10 am PT

Eye-Fi is trying to get the cellphone and digital camera to end their rivalry and instead work together to share photos. A new “direct mode,” due later this year, will allow cameras with one of the company’s memory cards to share photos with smartphones.

Startup Claims Quantum Leap in Countering Photo "Wobble"

Don Clark, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on September 24, 2010 at 8:00 am PT

Chip technology has steadily increased the resolution and lowered the cost of digital cameras. But there is an annoying side effect, one that a Silicon Valley startup called InVisage Technologies believes it can eliminate. The problem–variously called “wobble,” “Jell-O” and “rolling shutter”–is a kind of distortion that can occur when photographing moving objects using the cameras that typically come with cellphones

Memory Startup Gets Vote of Confidence from IBM

Don Clark, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on May 3, 2010 at 12:00 am PT

A shift from disk drives to chips to store computer data has been going on for several years. SandForce, a Silicon Valley startup that has been aiding that evolution, has been put to the test by International Business Machines and seems to have passed.

Only in China: McDonald's Goes Online to Sell Consumer Goods

Juliet Ye, Reporter, China Journal, The Wall Street Journal in News on April 28, 2009 at 12:35 pm PT

In February, McDonald’s launched an online shop on Alibaba’s Taobao, China’s top online auction site, to promote its Super Value meal. The fast-food giant wasn’t selling burgers. Instead, for two months it sold popular and fashionable products such as mobile phones, digital cameras and MP3 players on its virtual store, along with the more-predictable gift vouchers.

Digital Overload at Inauguration?

Marisa Taylor, Blogger, Digits, The Wall Street Journal in News on January 20, 2009 at 10:20 am PT

With inauguration excitement hitting a fever pitch inside the Beltway, news outlets are calling on the Average Joes (and maybe a few Joe Plumbers) attending the festivities to seize the moment and capture the Obama revelry for the rest of the world to see.

Semiconductor Industry Assn. Cuts 2008 Chip Sales Forecast

Eric Savitz, Blogger, Columnist, Barron's in News on June 11, 2008 at 11:06 am PT

The Semiconductor Industry Association today cut its forecast for 2008 worldwide chip sales growth to 4.3% from 7.7%, citing ongoing weakness in memory chip pricing. Sales ex-memory products are expected to grow 7.4%.