Visit the web site of Kodak (http://www.kodak.com/), and search it to find out what Kodak is doing in the area of digital photography. Use this information to answer the following questions:

1. What percentage of Kodak's sales come from digital photography products, as opposed to traditional photographic products?
   
   
2. How is this likely to change over the next decade?
   
   
3. Where is digital photography on the S-curve? Where is traditional photography? What are the implications of this comparison for Kodak?
   
   
4. Identify Kodak's competitors in (a) its traditional film business and (b) the digital photography business. What are the implications of the change in the set of competitors confronting Kodak?
   
   
5. How does the switch from traditional to digital photography change the economics of the photography business?
   
   
6. Do you think that Kodak is pursuing the correct strategies to deal with digital substitution? What do you think is the long- term outlook for Kodak's business if it continues pursuing its current strategies? Do you think the company should make some changes? If so, what?

General Task:
Search the Web for information that allows you to assess the current state of competition in the market for hand-held computers such as those produced by Palm, Handspring, and Compaq. Use that information to perform an analysis of the market in the United States. Answer the following questions:

1. What is the leading standard for operating systems in this market?
   
   
2. How did this standard emerge to become the market leader?
   
   
3. How secure is this standard? Could it be supplanted by another standard over the next few years?