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Nikon Releases World’s First Wi-Fi Cameras

The whole world is going Wi-Fi, or so it seems. Nikon have unveiled the first cameras to support Wi-Fi (IEEE802.11b/g) to ease the transfer of images to your computer, or direct to a network-enabled printer.

Wireless shooting automatically transfers each picture to a selected computer as soon as it is shot.

Of course, if Wi-Fi isn’t your thing you can still use the traditional memory card / USB methods of getting your shots onto a PC.

In all the excitement about Wi-Fi we nearly forgot to check whether these are actually good cameras, after all, there’s no fun in wirelessly transmitting rubbish photos. Well, we weren’t disappointed. The Coolpix P1 is 8 megapixel and the P2 is blessed with 5 megapixels.

The Coolpix P1 and P2 will be available in September 2005 with an RRP of
$549.95 and $399.95, respectively. A Wireless Print Adaptor (PD-10) will be
available in October 2005 with an RRP of $49.95.

Nikon promises that many future models will include Wi-Fi functionality as they move to position the camera as a device in which network support is ubiquitous.

Add comment September 2nd, 2005

Creative Ships Worm With Zen mp3 Player

3700 Creative Zen Neeon mp3 players were shipped to Japan with the Wullik.b worm, a mass-mailed worm of 2003 vintage which makes copies of itself in random locations on machines it infects.

However, the worm won’t infect connected PCs unless the user browses the file system and clicks on the infected file. Also, anyone with up to date virus protection should be safe as, once plugged in, the PC would treat the Neon like a USB drive and scan it.

Creative is reporting that the worm affects players with serial numbers between 1230528000001 and 1230533001680 and is recalling those devices. Further shipments have been halted while the problem, which Creative describes as an ‘annoyance’ to customers is resolved.

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