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Kodak

  • Steven J. Sasson shows the world's first digital camera (left), which he built in 1975, next to Kodak's EasyShare One, at Kodak headquarters in Rochester, N.Y., in 2005. The company is now trying to sell about a thousand patents for digital photography to prevent bankruptcy.
    Public Affairs
    A Digital Death? Why Kodak Stopped Clicking
    Jim Zarroli
    Kodak developed the first, 13-pound digital camera in 1975. But it was never really able to capitalize on the product it had invented, and its digital strategy was a bust, analysts say. Now, it's trying to sell thousands of patents for the technology behind digital photography to stave off bankruptcy.