Watch out Nikon, Intellectual Ventures I LLC have you in their sights.
Intellectual Ventures is a private company that also happens to be one of the top five owners of US patents, according to Wikipedia.
Its business model has a focus on developing a large patent portfolio and licensing these patents to companies. Publicly, it states that [...]
The flooding in Thailand continues, and is having a major negative impact on Nikon’s financials with an estimated reduction in sales of 65 billion yen (around $833m). Nikon’s press release, with full financial results due later today:
This is to advise you of the latest situations of submersion at Nikon (Thailand) Co., Ltd., a consolidated [...]
Zeiss have announced an new lens for Nikon F mount, the Distagon T* 2/25 ZF.2.
Although manual focus only, it does include a CPU that reports information back to modern digital bodies, allowing the use of some automatic exposure modes and ensuring EXIF information is correct.
The lens will be available at the end of 2011, and [...]
There’s a rumor that has been doing the rounds recently, and it’s a strange one. Fox News reports that Nikon, of all companies, has been talking to HP about buying the latter’s ailing webOS operating system.
webOS, for the uninitiated, is the operating system for phones and tablets originally created by Palm and introduced with the [...]
Do you have your Halloween costume sorted? No? Well, Tyler Card does – and it’s a huge Nikon DSLR. Correction – a huge, working Nikon DSLR!
Made from cardboard and a bucket fashioned to look (sort of) like a D3, Tyler’s costume actually takes photos. It’s built around a Nikon consumer DSLR and displays [...]
Nikon have published a second notice regarding the status of their factory in Thailand. We understand that this may also have lead to Nikon postponing the announcement of a new model DSLR.
This is to advise you, following our first notice of October 11, of the latest situations of submersion at Nikon (Thailand) Co., [...]
