Whether human or camera, it's always hard following in the footsteps of a popular sibling, and the near-universally well-liked Canon PowerShot SD850 IS is a harder act to follow than most.
Canon may not have been first out of the gate with a flash-based camcorder--or second, or third--but one of its debut models, the high-definition Vixia HF100, gets it right the first time.
Don't look for any great advances here: the Canon Vixia HV30 is a very minor upgrade from the admittedly top-notch HV20.
Canon's 1Ds series of cameras exists in a class of its own.
Asian stock markets ended the week in negative territory following the latest disappointing economic reports out of the United States.
No fewer than six of my friends and family received digital photo frames for Christmas last month. For the record, no, I was not the one to give them.
Modern ink jet printers are both cheap and fabulous - how often do you see that combination? Canon's Pixma iP6700D lists for a measly $179 and essentially puts a fully functioning photo lab on your desk. And the HP Photosmart C7180 delivers a wireless printer, scanner and fax for just $399.
The Canon Pixma iP4500 is a moderately expensive single-function printer designed for general home use.
When most people talk about printers, they talk about them in terms of printing documents and Web pages, but with more and more high-resolution cameras around, it's becoming more common for people to print large photos at home. If you want those big prints to look nice, that means buying a medium-format printer, such as Canon's Pixma Pro9000.
Laser printer emissions may damage your health, says a new study -- not to mention the load of indoor air pollutants we're breathing 90% of the time
Whether human or camera, it's always hard following in the footsteps of a popular sibling, and the near-universally well-liked Canon PowerShot SD850 IS is a harder act to follow than most.
Canon may not have been first out of the gate with a flash-based camcorder--or second, or third--but one of its debut models, the high-definition Vixia HF100, gets it right the first time.
Don't look for any great advances here: the Canon Vixia HV30 is a very minor upgrade from the admittedly top-notch HV20.
Canon's 1Ds series of cameras exists in a class of its own.
Asian stock markets ended the week in negative territory following the latest disappointing economic reports out of the United States.
No fewer than six of my friends and family received digital photo frames for Christmas last month. For the record, no, I was not the one to give them.
Modern ink jet printers are both cheap and fabulous - how often do you see that combination? Canon's Pixma iP6700D lists for a measly $179 and essentially puts a fully functioning photo lab on your desk. And the HP Photosmart C7180 delivers a wireless printer, scanner and fax for just $399.
The Canon Pixma iP4500 is a moderately expensive single-function printer designed for general home use.
When most people talk about printers, they talk about them in terms of printing documents and Web pages, but with more and more high-resolution cameras around, it's becoming more common for people to print large photos at home. If you want those big prints to look nice, that means buying a medium-format printer, such as Canon's Pixma Pro9000.
Laser printer emissions may damage your health, says a new study -- not to mention the load of indoor air pollutants we're breathing 90% of the time
Can buying a Canon camera, a pair of Nike sneakers or a bar of Dove soap help curb global warming?
The Canon Pixma iP90v is the 2007 refresh of the Pixma iP90.
Canon's PowerShot A550 is a simple, inexpensive 7-megapixel camera, and that's all it wants to be.
A lot of cameras in the crowded and competitive digital point-and-shoot market are all flash and no substance. They add all sorts of extra gimmicks such as fancy slide shows and colorful borders that don't actually contribute to the cameras' pictures.
Ah, the memories that a photo album can evoke. Here I am with my first digital camera, the Apple QuickTake 100, along with a serial cable and the Macintosh portable I had lugged up a 12,000-foot mo...
Canon Inc. ranks no. 170 on FORTUNE's Global 500 this year, with $34.1 billion in revenues, up 6.3% from the previous year. The Tokyo, Japan-based company was ranked no. 154 on the 2005 list. Its 2005 profits were $3.5 billion, up 9.8% from a year earlier.
If you want to take the temperature of Japan's economic relations with China, forget recent heated exchanges over Japan's World War II legacy. Focus instead on something cool--really cool: the tiny...
(FORTUNE Magazine) - If you want to take the temperature of Japan's economic relations with China, forget recent heated exchanges over Japan's World War II legacy.
REBATES WOULD SEEM TO BE THE PERFECT SALES TOOL. The promised savings bring in customers, many of whom never claim the rebate that drew them. University of South Carolina professor Timothy Silk est...
THE DIGITAL CAMERA MARKET IS TRICKY THESE days. On the one hand, there are models so small they've earned the nickname "credit card" cameras. But an opposite trend has also been showing up at the l...
Take your cut
We have long been told that more and more manufacturing jobs are destined to migrate to the Third World. This view was popularized in the 1980s by such authors as John Naisbitt and Kenichi Ohmae, a...
ASK CANON CEO FUJIO MITARAI to explain how he turned a floundering Japanese electronics maker into one of the world's most profitable technology giants, and he's apt to tell you about an Internal Revenue Service auditor named Greg. It was 1966, and Mitarai had been put in charge of accounting at Canon's new U.S. subsidiary. In its first year the venture reported a profit of just $6,000, a sum so paltry it aroused suspicion at the IRS. After scouring Canon's books for a month and verifying that its U.S. earnings were every bit as meager as claimed, Greg, the agency's lead auditor, offered Mitarai some free advice: Deposit your accounts receivable in the bank, close the company, and go home.
Ask Canon CEO Fujio Mitarai to explain how he turned a floundering Japanese electronics maker into one of the world's most profitable technology giants, and he's apt to tell you about an Internal Revenue Service auditor named Greg. It was 1966, and Mitarai had been put in charge of accounting at Canon's new U.S. subsidiary. In its first year the venture reported a profit of just $6,000, a sum so paltry it aroused suspicion at the IRS. After scouring Canon's books for a month and verifying its U.S. earnings to be every bit as meager as claimed, Greg, the agency's lead auditor, offered Mitarai some free advice: Deposit your accounts receivable in the bank, close the company, and go home.
Canon is betting billions that a new technology called surface-conduction electron-emitter display, or SED, will enable the company to muscle into the flat-screen-TV market. SED technology, developed in conjunction with Toshiba, yields images of superior quality to liquid-crystal or plasma screens while consuming far less power.
Some of the biggest electronics manufacturers say they will repair a defective chip found on more than 80 models of digital cameras and other digital devices, but only if the chip becomes faulty, according to a report published Thursday.
Global orders for chip equipment declined 10 to 15 percent in the third quarter from the second quarter, and activity will remain "dismal" for the remainder of 2004, according to a survey released Wednesday.
Toshihiro Takahashi had a long and distinguished career at Toyota Motor. Joining the automaker's sales affiliate in 1964, he churned through senior positions in production, human resources, and pro...
They're back! American companies have rebounded in the world's esteem--and our latest World's Most Admired Companies list proves it. (See www.fortune.com for the full list, selected by 10,000 busin...
More data, at lower cost, in ever smaller devices: Micro hard drives--which cram gigabyte-level storage capacity and rapid data-transfer rates into tiny, matchbook-size casings--are the way to go....
It's hard to convince people that the Canon EOS Digital Rebel is a serious camera when you're drooling, grinning like a fool, making little "ooh, ahh" noises, and fondling its body like a mother c...
There's a lonely spot at your local camera store: the section of counter with the point-and-shoot film cameras. "We take them out and dust them and place them back on the shelf," says a clerk at a ...
Which digital cameras are best? It depends on how you want to use them. There are four basic kinds.
As we bid adieu to 2002--and not a moment too soon!--let's pause to appreciate the products that brightened an otherwise dull year in personal technology. How tedious was 2002? My favorite new prod...
Tablet PCs
When he ran Canon's North American division, Fujio Mitarai enjoyed playing golf with Jack Welch at the Fairfield Country Club in Connecticut. He liked talking business with the then-CEO of General ...
PLASMA: IT'S A GAS Prices for these wide-screen, superthin TV sets are still inflated, but they're falling rapidly. Should you watch or wait? Here's the skinny on Hitachi's new 42-inch dazzler.
SUPERGLASS FOR TOMORROW'S CHIPMAKING
It would be logical to surmise that the top-performing FORTUNE 500 stock in 2001 was also cranking out stellar revenues and profits. Well, surmise again. IKON Office Solutions (IKN, $11.50), a Vall...
Who has time to read? It's hard to keep up, especially when you're also trying to run a business. That's where this column comes in. In each issue of FSB, I'll serve as your reading scout, scouring...
Thumbs-up for movie editing
Digital, digital, digital. When it comes to cameras, it's all you hear about these days. Yes, it is amazing that you can see your photos instantly and then delete the ones that make you look...well...
Canon's new ZR10 digital video camera is perfect for those without deep pockets--both literally (it's tiny and weighs just 1.4 pounds) and figuratively (it costs a reasonable $999). There's a 2.5-i...
$1,300 Sony's DCR-TRV11 digital camcorder can capture stills from home movies and download them to your PC. Call 800-222-7669 to find a local dealer.
It's time for the family picnic--time to do your duty. While everyone else is eating, drinking, and generally having a great time, you take photos. On Monday you drop the film at the drugstore; on ...
Most high-powered lenses magnify your hand's normal shakes and jitters to the point where you need a tripod to keep your subject in view. But a button on Canon's Image Stabilization Binoculars acti...
The biggest problem with the management technique known as Six Sigma is this: It sounds too good to be true. How would your company like a 20% increase in profit margins within one year, followed b...
Now that Macs are hot, fans can finally own what PC users have had for years: a multifunction printer. In July, Canon will introduce the MultiPass C635 (below), which combines a color printer, colo...
The last time I checked out digital cameras, they were little more than high-priced toys. A year later they're even more fun--but now they're worth the price. A dozen models priced below $1,000 del...
When I was a kid on the Jersey shore, I loved to watch the hustlers on the boardwalk hawking those kitchen gadgets that were guaranteed to slice, dice, shave, grate, chip, chop, and peel. But my mo...
Canon is unlike any other Japanese company. It never established keiretsu-style relationships with suppliers or a main bank. Its chairman, Ryuzaburo Kaku, is a born iconoclast, best known in Japan ...
Anyone interested in buying a camera these days will quickly figure out that there's good news and bad news in store. On the one hand, there are a lot of options out there. On the other hand, there...
Digital photography may be a hot new technology, but unless everyone around you is glued to a computer monitor, you'll have to put those spiffy electronic images on paper sometime. There's the rub....
Management consultant Alvin Rosenbaum, who earns an impressive six-figure income advising companies and governments around the world on the best strategies for developing rural economies, credits m...
You've got more important things to do than shop, right? But you're a bit short on employees to run your errands, so you've become resigned to the idea of spending too large a part of your life in ...
Today's wired executive doesn't leave his work at the office anymore. Notebook computers that go anywhere now deliver almost as much power and do as many things as your desktop PC. Fast-developing ...
A funny thing happened on our way to finding the world's best investments: Most of them turned out to be right in our backyard. In fact, two-thirds of our 12 picks are U.S. issues. ''That's not sur...
SOMETIMES it's hard to tell whether Steve Jobs is a snake-oil salesman or a bona fide visionary, a promoter who got lucky or the epitome of the intrepid entrepreneur. What's indisputable is that he...
Maybe you've been thinking about getting a fax machine for your home-based business or just to keep in touch with the office. Until recently, you had two so-so choices: a thermal-paper model that p...
DESKTOP COLOR COPIER This digital desktop machine can work a triple shift as color copier, printer, and scanner at about one-quarter the price of most free-standing units that perform the same func...
The state of the art in flat TV and computer screens is liquid crystal display technology similar to that in a digital watch. Since Japan thoroughly dominates the application of LCDs to flat screen...
EVEN IF YOU prefer backyard vacations and meat and potatoes, it pays to be cosmopolitan when you're investing. Just as any sound portfolio should spread risk across a number of industries, it makes...
HIGHLIGHT PRINTER Liven up those drab forms and reports. The Xerox 4850 Highlight Color Laser Printing System is the first printer to produce color documents in one pass, pumping out 50 pages per m...
Sony Chief Executive Norio Ohga, 61, will be heading for Austria this August. The former professional opera singer and amateur conductor wants to attend the Salzburg Music Festival. Also in August,...
His birthplace is Sweden, his home is Boston, and his money is all over the world. Through his Boston Overseas Investors company, Hakan Castegren runs $800 million in assets for six pension funds, ...
HIGH-TECH BOOMERANG Alan Adler, an inventor and lecturer in engineering at Stanford University, improved on the Frisbee five years ago by creating the Aerobie flying ring. It won a place in the Gui...
PSEUDO WINDOWS Intensive-care patients in windowless hospital rooms can lose track of time, which disrupts their sleeping and waking cycles. That can lead to depression or, worse, what physicians c...
A paperless society? Don't believe it. Copy machines will be spewing out more paper than ever in the 1990s -- and more of them will be doing so in color. Dataquest, a San Jose, California, market r...
The power of Japan in the Pacific Rim comes blasting through in FORTUNE's list of the 150 largest industrial companies ranked by sales. All but 23 are Japanese. But that's no surprise. What is stri...
Remember J. Paul Getty's legendary formula for financial success? ''Rise early, work hard, strike oil.'' If only it were that simple. Most of us can't count on finding oil, or winning the lottery, ...
IT'S THE BIGGEST THING since the PC. Businesses large and small, from Pillsbury in Minneapolis to Pizza Delight in Plainview, New York, use facsimile machines for everything from receiving orders t...
Steve Jobs is one popular guy, especially in Asia. Canon, the Japanese electronics big gun, proved just how popular when in June it paid $100 million for one-sixth of Jobs's young computer company,...
-- FOR DIABETICS: Squibb-Novo's NovolinPen makes things simpler for diabetics used to cumbersome vials and syringes for their doses of insulin. Now they can turn a dial on the pen-shaped device to ...
IMAGINE A NEW FORM of information storage that would hold encyclopedic amounts of data but could slip into a personal computer or workstation as easily as a floppy disk does -- and could be erased ...
ONE SUNDAY MORNING in the summer of 1986, six Marriott employees on a secret intelligence mission checked into a cheap hotel outside the Atlanta airport. Once inside their $30-a-night rooms, decora...
Americans' infatuation with facsimile machines is growing deeper. Faster than a bicycle messenger and cheaper than Federal Express, faxes send and receive written and graphic information by regular...
AFTER YEARS of generating prosperity through a single-minded emphasis on exports, Japanese companies are discovering that the old strategy isn't working the way it used to. The yen is worth 36% mor...
THE NEXT TIME the creative types at your advertising agency suggest hiring a celebrity for your campaign, think hard before saying yes. Many admen agree that celebrities are being enlisted to pitch...
A LANKY entrepreneur named Serge Crasnianski has built a worldwide business on a single premise: when people want something done, they want it done right away. His French-based Key Independent Syst...
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