Repairman Keeps Focus on Cameras: Only Shop of Its Type in Area Has Been Open Since 1973
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By Larry Gierer, Columbus Ledger-Enquirer, Ga.  Feb. 12--Elijah Johnson looked at the camera and noticed stuff "oozing out of it." It was a 20-year-old Nikon -- and the batteries hadn't been changed in more than six years.
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Reporter Ahmad Taufik caught a break as he looked for a follow-up story after a fire devoured a centuries-old garment market in the heart of town last year. A city official had told him anonymously that plans to renovate the market were submitted by a powerful businessman three months before the fire.
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A new camera-finding feature at Flickr may find profits, too.
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MUMBAI: The US consulate and the American Centre in Mumbai, which had downed shutters on Tuesday morning, resumed operations on Wednesday.
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Well into the second decade of the television era, the machines still conked out, a lot. "TV's on the fritz again," folks would say. There was such a thing as a TV repairman, who would come to your house. Now, TVs work.
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New services are helping appliance makers and consumers find spare components.
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A number of independent mechanics nationwide service hybrids, but Luscious Garage in San Francisco is a hybrid-only auto-repair shop. Part of a small but growing trend, the shop aims to build its core business around the 21,000 hybrids registered in the Bay Area.
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Behind the lens: A Times photographer's contemporaneous account from ground zero.
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By Kevin DeMarrais, The Record, Hackensack, N.J.  Jun. 11--A JOB TOO CRITICAL FOR A TEMP: For almost a year, New Jersey's  Division of Consumer Affairs has been directionless, extending a period of  instability that has lasted more than five years.
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New models of digital cameras come with multiple ways of eliminating dust particles.
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When Austin Sweazy pulled into the parking lot of an auto-repair shop, his fiancee reminded him that even though their errand inside would last just a few minutes, it would be smart to lock the car doors.
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First video killed the radio star. Now it looks like the video recorder's days could be numbered too, after Britain's biggest electrical retailer announced an end to sales of the household gadget.
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There were at least a handful of folks outside the Apple Store at Keystone at the Crossing Mall in Indianapolis as early as 4 a.m. this morning, before a security crew politely told them to return at 7. They did as told, and were met by another handful of reporters from early morning local TV news. Perhaps it was the bright spotlights and the microwave truck that helped it sink in for them: They were present for history...or at least as much history as you could find at the crack of dawn in a mall parking lot.
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This retailer's still trying to loosen up.
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The Front Row column last Thursday, about John Bartlettâs new clothing store at 143 Seventh Avenue South, referred incorrectly to the siteâs previous occupant. O Mistress Mine, which has moved, sells vintage clothing and jewelry; it does not sell lingerie only.
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In what managers described as a "sad sign of the times", a British shopping centre has installed a spy camera in its Christmas grotto to protect Father Christmas from possible child abuse allegations.
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Just as I was about to give digital cameras a rest in this column, a gorgeous little device popped up in Radio Shack stores last week: