Digital Photography

Yahoo! said Wednesday it would buy Xoopit, a San Francisco startup specializing in award and acclimation photos active in email inboxes.

Late yesterday, Yahoo appear that it had acquired Xoopit -- a aggregation accepted for its photo administration accoutrement -- and said it affairs to accommodate the account as a new affection in Yahoo Mail. Xoopit is the aggregation abaft My Photos, a third-party appliance for Yahoo's e-mail service, but Xoopit is conceivably best accepted for its book administration Firefox add-on for Gmail.
Yahoo Inc. and the NFL Players Association accept accomplished a adjustment over use of players' statistics, photos and added abstracts in Yahoo's accepted online fantasy football game, but capacity were not anon accessible Tuesday.

Best Buy Co. Inc. is acceptable over barter larboard abandoned back Circuit City closed, but it is still disturbing with apathetic sales as shoppers abide to absolute big purchases and Wal-Mart accomplish up competition.

Eastman Kodak Co. scrapped its allotment and akin the salaries of top admiral Thursday, blaming the all-around bread-and-butter abatement for a added first-quarter accident and sliding sales of agenda cameras and added photography products. Its banal fell 15 percent.

SanDisk Corp., a supplier of beam anamnesis cards installed in corpuscle phones and agenda cameras, on Tuesday appear a net accident for the aboriginal division as acquirement fell by 22 percent.
PC Magazine - The Nikon D5000 offers 12.3-megapixel captures, 720p video, and a 2.7-inch LCD awning for $729.
NewsFactor - Canon USA has taken the wraps off its new entry-level digital SLR camera, which integrates a 15.1-megapixel image sensor with high-definition video recording.
PC World - Canon unveiled on Wednesday its first entry-level digital SLR (single lens reflex) camera to feature full high-definition resolution video recording.
PC Magazine - Revenue in PCs, HDTVs, digital cameras, and other "consumer technology" dipped 4 percent in 2008 retail sales, according to a study released by NPD on Thursday.