Motorola, Kodak to collaborate on camera phones

Kodak has agreed to supply Motorola with camera hardware and software for its phones and the companies plan to share their intellectual property as part of the agreement.
They will also work together on devices that allow users to swap, store or print a picture from a camera phone by pressing one button, with the first devices arriving on the market in time for the holiday season this year.
They will also work together to bring out more devices next year with a view to making it easier to swap and print pictures.
"Think about visual IM," said Ron Garriques, head of Motorola's mobile phone division, suggesting that swapping pictures with somebody on the other side of the world could be as quick and easy as sending an instant message (IM) over the Internet.
Garriques said that the agreement was not exclusive but that both companies expect to work more closely with each other than with rival photography or handset companies.
They did not disclose financial terms of the deal.

Slingbox set to go mobile with home TV

Sling Media is expected to announce Thursday that consumers can use a wide range of mobile devices to watch their home television from anywhere in the world. The company is set to unveil new software that adds this capability to its Slingbox hardware product this week at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
Sling Media co-founder and head of business development Jason Krikorian said support for mobile devices always has been part of the company's vision but that the initial focus was on the PC because of the broadband connection.
"There are solutions for live and recorded TV on mobile phones, but now for the first time you can have full access to every single channel you've got at your house," he said. "It's not just a TV experience on your phone, it's your TV experience, like you have at home when you're on your couch."
The new mobile client, as the software is known, works with any device that uses Microsoft's Windows Mobile Platform versions 4.0 or 5.0. A visual version of a remote control pops up on the screen, making it a fairly straightforward process to choose whether to watch television live from their home cable set-top box or satellite receiver or something recorded on their digital video recorder.