Archive for May 20th, 2010

C.J.P.C. Camera Grand Prix 2010 Award Winners

Thursday, May 20th, 2010
Olympus PEN E-P1: CJPC 2010 "Camera of the Year" & "Readers Award"

Olympus PEN E-P1: CJPC 2010 "Camera of the Year" & "Readers Award"

The winners of the annual C.J.P.C. (Camera Journal Press Club) awards have been released. The Olympus PEN E-P1 has won both the top awards of “Camera of the Year” as well as “Readers Award”. The “Editors Award” went to the Canon EF 100mm F2.8L Macro IS USM and Sony back-illuminated CMOS Sensor “Exmor R”.

Olympus PEN E-P1: CJPC 2010 "Camera of the Year" & "Readers Award"

Olympus PEN E-P1: CJPC 2010 "Camera of the Year" & "Readers Award"

The Olympus PEN E-P1 was selected from a shortlist of 199 cameras introduced in Japan between 1 April, 2009 and 31 March, 2010. This is the first Olympus camera to receive the Japan Camera Journal Press Club’s highest honor since the inception of the Japan Camera Grand Prix awards in 1984. Previous “Camera of the Year” winners include the Canon EOS 5D Mark II in 2009 and the Nikon D3 in 2008.

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Clash of the Titans

Thursday, May 20th, 2010

We’ve been reading so much about the intense competition between the behemoths in the IT industry. Apple vs Adobe over Flash on iPhone/iPad. Apple vs Gizmodo over lost 4G iPhone. Apple vs Google over mobile search and smartphone OS. Apple vs Google vs Microsoft over everything.

How big are these companies relative to each other? I checked out the Market Capitalisation (share value x number of shares) of these companies on the Nasdaq from Yahoo Finance and put them on a chart for comparison. As at end of 19 May 2010:

Bar chart of the market capitalisation of Adobe, Apple, Microsoft and Google

Market Capitalisation of the IT behemoths

Everybody knows Microsoft (US$247.1b) is the biggest IT company in the world, while Steve Jobs would love to think of Apple as a small and nimble outfit. In reality, Apple (US$226b) is fast catching up on Microsoft in terms of market cap. No wonder its new found confidence has found expression in so many arenas. Adobe (US$17.31b) is not even one-tenth of Apple. Maybe Apple should just buy over Adobe. I haven’t even bothered to check how much Gizmodo is worth.

By the way, Google (US$157.5b) is still some way off compared to Microsoft and Apple.

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