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2000 - Dan Carp became Kodak's CEO in addition to his responsibilities as President. ♦ Kodak's Health Imaging unit introduced 45 new products during the year, including, KODAK InSight Intraoral Dental Film; a dental radiography film that helped dentists reduce radiation exposure to patients while delivering excellent images; and two new digital radiography systems, the KODAK DirectView DR 9000 and DirectViewDR 5000. ♦ Kodak's Entertainment Imaging unit and Qualcomm Inc. launched an initiative to collaborate on testing of core technologies for the creation of a high-quality digital cinema system. ♦ Kodak introduced a new PalmPix camera that turned the Palm m100 handheld into a digital camera. ♦ At year-end, Kodak completed the acquisition of Lumisys, Inc., a leading provider of desktop computed radiography systems and x-ray film digitizers.

2001 - Dan Carp became Kodak's Chairman in addition to his responsibilities as President and CEO. ♦ Kodak entered into an alliance with Maytag Corporation, Maytag's Dixie-Narco vending machine division and e-Vend.net that would use vending machines and the Internet to expand the number of locations where consumers could buy film and one-time-use cameras. ♦ The company completed its acquisition of Bell & Howell Company's imaging businesses. ♦ Kodak announced a new worldwide advertising campaign, "Share Moments. Share Life." ♦ The KODAK EASYSHARE System, a new line of digital cameras and docking systems that set the standard for ease of use for digital photography, was launched. ♦ In June, the company acquired Ofoto, Inc., a leading online photography service.

2002 - Kodak finalized the acquisition of Encad, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Kodak, focused exclusively on the wide-format inkjet printing industry. ♦ KODAK PERFECT TOUCH Processing was introduced, which marked the expansion of the company's digital photo processing offering to consumers. By individually scanning and digitally processing each picture, KODAK...