In any event, it seems to be relentless pain for brand names like Canon.
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The move could allow a company like Canon to operate web addresses ending in .canon, .ixus or .eoscamera.
What would really help the market, and stocks like Canon, whose earnings are largely in foreign currency, is depreciation of the yen.
Kyocera, owned by billionaire Kazuo Inamori, also saw a 3% stock decline along with other high tech companies like Canon and Sony.
But a reluctance to ease its heavy reliance on film allowed rivals like Canon and Sony to rush into the fast-emerging digital arena.
Even well-known companies like Canon, Toyota, Nintendo and Suzuki have not appointed even one independent director to oversee operations and help protect shareholder value.
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At the U.S. Patent Office Japanese firms (like Canon, Sony, NEC, Toshiba and others) consistently place in the top 10 or 20 of annual patent grantees.
That's not to say there won't be any new cameras at all -- PMA does have a small presence at the show, and major players like Canon, Nikon, Samsung and Sony all invest in significant floor space (they'll need some new products to fill their shelves, after all).
While companies like Canon and FujiFilm prefer to fly in the face of PMA and announce their cameras well ahead of the trade show, others, like Leica, have decided to hold their cards 'till the last minute and show off 'em at the show itself.
They literally shoot up like a canon ball, get you out of the atmosphere into space and falling back to land within a couple of minutes of your launch.
However, tech firms like Google, Canon and Sony, and automotive companies like BMW, Daimler and Michelin, dominate that region.
First firms like Mitsubishi and Canon that funneled contracts to Ota's workshops began shifting jobs to Southeast Asia, where labor is cheaper.
Veteran manufacturers like Xerox and Canon have recognizable names, huge sales forces and 42% of the market--and are in better shape today than they have been in three years.
This ETF aims to mimic the Japanese market by investing in large companies like Toyota, Honda and Canon.
However, the 707 pales in comparison to some slick-looking new models, like the PowerShot A310 from Canon and the Cyber-shot DSC-TI from Sony .
However, the 707 pales in comparison to some slick-looking new models, like the PowerShot A310 from Canon (nyse: CAJ - news - people ) and the Cyber-shot DSC-TI from Sony (nyse: SNE - news - people ).
We use this feature on the NEX-C3 on a daily basis, so not having it here really is a significant drawback, especially considering Canon's implementation on models like the PowerShot G12 (sadly its G15 successor does indeed drop this feature).
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Sitting in the back of a school bus, the filmmakers, using a Canon 5D Mark II, which looks like a still camera, managed to shoot a rubbery little heavyweight beating Alex.
If you're feeling this thing you've probably already got a really good reason why (shooting a feature-length documentary, perhaps?), but for the record, Canon's director of marketing sounded like they really did want to do 1080p, but they couldn't hack sourcing the CCD components necessary.
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Canon Pat Browne said the killers were "thugs behaving like animals" and urged people to speak out.
Canon is also expanding its WiFi support to include DSLR-like remote control of the camcorder through the web browsers of most modern devices.
But Dr Giles Fraser, canon chancellor of St Paul's Cathedral, said it was "outrageous" to compare "something like fiddling expenses with the way people love each other".
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