Brittany Braudo

Leica has announced a new firmware update for the Digilux 3 digital camera. Firmware version 2.0 is now available for download from Leica’s Web site.

Underwater product manufacturer Fantasea has released underwater housing for the Nikon Coolpix P5000. The FP-5000 housing will provide photographers will full access to essential camera functions in extreme conditions.

This week, Fujifilm announced the release of recordable media for its Labelflash laser-labeling DVD drives. The technology will be included on select models of Toshiba’s new Satellite Notebook computer series.

Digital creative tools maker AKVIS LLC has released Noise Buster v. 4.0, a digital image noise reduction plug-in. Registered users can download the latest version for free.

Sony Europe today revealed a "17-in-1" card reader for PCs. The MRW62E-S1/171 reader includes software that recognizes different card formats.

Eye-Fi has secured $5.5 million in Series A funding to support its development of a wireless Secure Digital memory card.

Photo-sharing website Flickr, owned by Yahoo Inc., announced earlier this week that it has gone international. Users can now choose between eight languages, including English, French, German, Italian, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish, and Traditional Chinese.

According to PMA Marketing Research, U.S. consumers produced about 230,000 more photo greeting/holiday cards in 2006 than in the previous year.