Electronics are a bargain hunter's heaven (even after the Japanese earthquakes, tech firms absorbed higher costs without raising prices). You can always count on manufacturers to improve their products every nine to 12 months -- and prices to decline as each model nears the end of its life cycle. To make room for all this new stuff, retailers rid their shelves of older gadgets before they become obsolete.
The announcement that Accenture has decided to end its marketing relationship with Tiger Woods -- now that the superstar is making headlines for his infidelity and sudden break from the sport of golf -- is raising larger doubts about the strategy of relying on celebrity endorsers.
Every so often a camera comes along that gets (and deserves) high marks, but which I don't necessarily like as much as the rating would suggest. The latest object of such ambivalence is the Panasonic Lumix DMC-G1.
Panasonic's Lumix DMC-G1 offers interchangeable lenses, Nikon's Coolpix P6000 provides GPS--the feature sets on enthusiast compact cameras are all over the place these days.
In general, it's best not to expect too much from a budget camera: the 8-megapixel Canon PowerShot A580 exemplifies this philosophy.
For years, Nikon users had been asking their favored camera maker for a dSLR with a full-frame sensor (the same size as a 35mm frame of film).
The Canon PowerShot SD750 is one of the most popular cameras on CNET, so how do you top it? Well, with a couple of the standard enhancements, for one.
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.
With its T series, Sony has an unfortunate habit of taking at least one step back for every two steps forward.
As compact cameras continue to evolve into commodity items, camera makers have shifted the way they approach their entry-level dSLRs.
I'm the founder of Cheetah Learning, which offers project-management training courses worldwide (cheetahlearning.com). We teach our business clients how to meet goals such as developing a product, launching a website, or reaching a sales quota. I also run a corporate retreat in Haines, Alaska, and sell kayak-making kits that can be used for team building at our Haines facility or the customer's site. Our clients include Blue Cross Blue Shield, IBM, and Pepsi, and we posted sales of about $9 million in 2006.
Hotel loyalty programs have come a long way since they were introduced a quarter century ago by Holiday Inn. Initially viewed as the ugly stepsister of airlines' frequent-flier plans, they have shed their dowdy image, and points have become highly desirable.
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...
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...
It's a classic theme of geek tragedy: A distraught mortal shakes his fists at the gods because he's just spent a thousand bucks for a fancy piece of digital gear, only to discover that a much bette...
Our gadgets just keep getting smaller, faster, cheaper and better. Cell phones now have color screens and take pictures. Cameras have gone digital and can fit into an Altoids tin. MP3 players easil...
Late fall is always a deliciously happy time for technology fans, the season just before the holidays when consumer electronics companies come out with their latest gizmos and gadgets. You may thin...
Around 40 years ago, the cameras that pros used--single-lens reflex numbers with interchangeable lenses--finally fell within a hobbyist's budget. Suddenly, the streets of Rome were overrun by folks...
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...
Money Magazine: The best digital camerasupdated: Thu Jul 31 2003 10:45:00
Which digital cameras are best? It depends on how you want to use them. There are four basic kinds.
Here's our grade-A supply list -- some of it practical, some extravagant -- for kids heading off to start their new life as college students.
1 The tunes Napster's demise hasn't halted student demand for digital music. The latest generation of portable MP3 players just holds more of it. Leading the way has been Apple's elegant little iPo...
Personal computers are displacing books as the main repositories of knowledge on college campuses. But you need to do some homework. Check with the admissions department to find out if the school r...
On the one hand, it sounds ridiculous to say that film cameras are heading for extinction. Tens of millions of film cameras will be sold this year, compared with seven million or so digital cameras...
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...
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...
You know that a product has reached the mass market when you can find it in a drugstore. That's the case with digital cameras, which now show up on retail racks between the antacids and the razor b...
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...
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...
Face it: With all the traveling you do in a year, there's barely time to pack, let alone shop for the gadgets that will make your journeys more pleasurable and productive. Herewith, FORTUNE offers ...
Paper is the plasma of business: pulsing within and among businesses are memoranda, proposals, white papers, blue books, pink slips, Post-Its and while-you-were-outs, all nourishing us with the nec...
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