Even small changes like RIM's shift to optical trackpads instead of trackballs in its new devices should improve profit margins by decreasing warranty costs, UBS analyst Phillip Huang said in an August note.

FORBES: Earnings Preview

Sycamore and Optical are just an early rumbling in the tectonic shift that has begun shaking the telecommunications industry: the move to optical networking, the hottest new market in high tech.

FORBES: Hooked on photonics

The COOLPIX S3500 offers an upgraded feature set that includes a new 20.1-megapixel sensor, a 7x optical zoom NIKKOR lens and lens-shift Vibration Reduction (VR) technology to help to ensure vibrant and sharp images.

ENGADGET: Nikon Coolpix S3500 ships this month with 20MP CCD, lens-shift VR for $139

Lucent, Cisco and Nortel all keenly focus on the coming shift to IP-over-optical networking, but they hold divergent views on when and in what form it will arrive.

FORBES: Wired and restless

The Olympus Stylus 750, this one's nearly identical to the 740 (7.1 megapixels, 5x optical zoom, 2.5-inch LCD), just with the addition of CCD-shift image stabilization.

ENGADGET: Olympus announces Mju 725 sw, Stylus 730, Stylus 740, Stylus 750, and Stylus 1000