From TMCnet.com: 
“CHICAGO –(Business Wire)– Canon U.S.A., Inc., a leading provider of office imaging systems, inkjet technology and digital photography equipment, today announced the new imagePROGRAF S-series large format printers, providing exceptionally rapid print speeds for high-volume production environments. The S-series of imagePROGRAF printers will launch with two models, the imagePROGRAF iPF9000S and iPF8000S printing at [...]

PDN’s Daryl Lang reports:
“Lines are being drawn in the online pricing battle of 2007.
On one side: Getty Images, which just introduced a pricing plan that makes almost any Getty photograph available for almost any online use for the flat price of $49, drastically less than Getty’s competitors.
On the other side: Trade associations representing photographers, who [...]

“Panasonic today introduced the newest member of its digital single-lens reflex (SLR) camera line, the Panasonic LUMIX DMC-L10, the company’s first SLR with Face Detection. The DMC-L10 also offers an advanced 2.5 inch Live View LCD which can rotate 270 degrees, enabling versatile shooting options, and making it easy and convenient to shoot from high [...]

“Yahoo said Tuesday that it would buy BlueLithium, an advertising network that specializes in targeting ads to users based on what Web sites they have visited, for $300 million.
The deal will build on Yahoo’s growing efforts to become a broker and seller of ads across the Web. The company began those efforts with deals [...]

“Canon PowerShot SD800IS Digital ELPH/IXUS 850 IS is a point-and-shoot digital camera featuring 7.10 effective megapixels CCD sensor, 3.8x optical zoom (28 – 105mm equivalent), Image Stabilization, ISO of up to 1600, 30 frames per second movie mode and Digic III processor. and a 2.5- inch, 230,000-pixel, color TFT LCD screen.The camera is measuring in [...]

“The annual American PHOTO Images of the Year event is an international competition that is a definitive showcase of the very best of contemporary photography. This juried photo contest offers unmatched exposure to both established and emerging photographers in a wide range of fields, from documentary/photojournalism to cutting-edge commercial work and will provide an unprecedented [...]

The New York Times reports:
“George Hotz, a New Jersey teenager, got most of the attention last week for hacking the iPhone, but at least one other group claims to have come up with a way of liberating Apple’s popular gadget from AT&T’s wireless network. A group calling itself iPhoneSimFree, which first demonstrated its technique to [...]

“Ricoh unveils the new Caplio R7 digital camera with a 7.1x optical wide zoom lens, on a body only 20.6 mm. The new R7 retains the features of its predecessor to the Caplio R6 model, R7 enhances the line with the introduction of: Smooth Imaging Engine III, and an 8.15 Mp CCD. The introduction of [...]

PCWorld Reports:
“Gateway’s brand name will not only live on after Acer buys the company, it will expand, Acer said. People fearing they might miss Gateway’s signature black-and-white dairy cow PC boxes after the company is acquired by Acer have little reason to worry: Acer not only plans to keep the Gateway brand just [...]

“Sierra Leone is emerging from one of the most vicious and long-lasting civil wars in the history of West Africa. Between 1991 and 2002, over 50,000 children and young people were traumatized by their activities as combatants in the hostilities. On a per capita basis, the tragedy is similar in scope to some of the [...]