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To: Ausdauer who wrote (14944)	9/23/2000 1:19:34 AM
From: puborectalis	Respond to of 60323

Matsushita Firms to Sell SD Card-Based Digital Camera, Color Fax September 22, 2000 (TOKYO) -- Matsushita-Kotobuki Electronics Industries Ltd. will market an SD memory card-based digital camera and Kyushu Matsushita Electric Co. will sell a home-use color fax machine, the two companies said. Matsushita-Kotobuki will release the "ipalm" a digital camera featuring a CCD with 3.34 million pixels, priced at 95,000 yen, on Oct. 25. And Kyushu Matsushita will release the "KX-PW96CL," a home-use color fax machine, at an open price, on Nov. 21. The two companies aim for monthly production levels of 10,000 units. The ipalm employs two types of recording media: the SD memory card and MultiMediaCard, and it comes with a 16MB MMC as a standard feature. The digital camera enables users to transfer image files to PCs and attach them to e-mails without starting up software on the PC, by pressing the camera's button. The lens features a brightness of F2.9-F4.0 and a focal length of equivalent to 32mm - 64mm for a 35mm film camera. It stores still pictures in three levels of resolution with 2,048 x 1,536 dots, 1,024 x 768 dots, and 640 x 480 dots. Also, it can store moving pictures displayed at 320 x 240 dots at 10 frames a second with voice (for 12 seconds). The KX-PW96CL is the first color model in a home-use fax series offered by Kyushu Matsushita. The fax machine employs a thermal transfer printer and can produce 400dpi color copies as well as color prints. The color fax is equipped with built-in memory card slots for the SD memory card, Smart Media card and Compact Flash card. Users can capture image files taken by a digital camera into the fax and attach the files to e-mails via a fax-based e-mail send/receive service provided by Kyushu Matsushita. "We will target non-PC users so that they can send color prints of pictures taken by their digital camera or send them by e-mail," a company official said. (BizTech News Dept.)

To: Ausdauer who wrote (14944)	9/23/2000 2:24:08 AM
From: Craig Freeman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 60323

<Mostly OT> Hardware Report #3 - Success! The Plextor 12/10/32 IDE drive has proven itself a worthy companion to flash images. Files under 1MB can be copied so fast that nothing at all appears on the display and there is ZERO delay. Larger files copy at a rate of about 1MB/sec ... as fast as many older hard disk drives. The advent of sub-$1 12X 80 minute CD-Rs (700MB) means that you can back up 1GB easily in under 10 minutes. When 10x CD-RW media arrives, removable storage will only get cheaper. Plextor's ability to stop and restart as needed without data loss makes it a uniquely valuable storage device. On the semiconductor front, I sold half of my INTC shares ten days ago but the other half took quite a beating today. Here's hoping that next week will be better for SNDK and the SOX. FYI: Check out what Kangaroo and Tiger have going. They have a 10GB MP3 player for <$250! It weighs so much it would feel like an anchor around your neck but they clearly have the right idea. Their 14-hour MP3 CD player is an even better idea (and that much worse for flash makers). With INTC selling Strata to cell phone makers and MP3 CDs on the horizon, SNDK may well end up owning the camera and camera-like markets with nowhere to go. One man's opinion with comments welcome. Craig