Kodak shifts focus to digital.Kodak continues to refocus on digital cameras and online photo services. For example, the new Kodak Mobile Service (http://www.kmobile.com) gives camera phone users easy access to their collections of digital photos and phone-captured video. For $2.99 a month, anyone with a camera phone that supports Wireless Application Protocol (WAP (1) (Wireless Access Point) See access point. (2) (Wireless Application Protocol) A standard for providing cellular phones, pagers and other handheld devices with secure access to e-mail and text-based Web pages. ) 2.0 can store, access and share images using service directly through their handsets or an Internet Web browser The program that serves as your front end to the Web on the Internet. In order to view a site, you type its address (URL) into the browser's Location field; for example, www.computerlanguage.com, and the home page of that site is downloaded to you. . Users can even choose to have friends and family receive automatic notifications when they post new digital photos, videos, or albums. Kodak plans to stop selling traditional film cameras in Western Europe Western Europe The countries of western Europe, especially those that are allied with the United States and Canada in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (established 1949 and usually known as NATO). and North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. . But, it will continue to make 35mm film, and sell traditional film cameras in the rest of the world. It will also keep selling one-time-use cameras in Western Europe and North America and expand sales of these and other film-based cameras and supplies in markets such as China, India, and Latin America Latin America, the Spanish-speaking, Portuguese-speaking, and French-speaking countries (except Canada) of North America, South America, Central America, and the West Indies. . |
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