According to Business 2.0, Carl Mead, a member of the original group of founders of Intel and still one of the world’s leaders in the field of quantum physics, is set to unveil his start-up company’s revolutionary new digital photography chip, the X3.

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(If Mead delivers) the radically designed light-sensing chip will forever transform photography, render obsolete all current digital cameras, turbocharge a consumer market that’s already at $2.3 billion in North America alone, and provide the tools to turn even the klutziest shutterbugs into Avedonesque auteurs.

Even with Mead’s track record in revolutionizing PCs through his chip design, there are still doubting Thomases, or, to be precise, doubting Chucks.

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Chuck Westfall, assistant director of technical information at Canon USA, is dubious. “At this point, I have no reason to believe that that kind of technology is possible,” he says. “It defies my imagination to understand how anyone can do that.”

Well, there goes my wish list.

I don’t know Michael Fraase, but I can feel his pain. I would like to add “permalinks” to each posting, but I can’t figure out how. And I’ve looked. For others it must be so obvious. Even manila newbies don’t need to be told how.

Maybe “permalink” is such a new term that despite having 18,500 results when searched in Google, it still has not earned a definition in the cnet glossary.

The search engine company Atomz announced a fun-sounding contest. They are giving away a $1,000 U.S. savings bond and four Handsprings for the most strange, peculiar or unexpected search results at Fortune 500 company Web sites.

Here’s a suggestion for a related game (no wagering allowed, please): Search for the most strange, peculiar or unexpected search results on the Atomz site. Here’s a start? Search: “How much does it cost to license Atomz?”

Gee, that’s helpful.

The New York Times reports that Randall Jones is expected to buy out his venture-capital partners of Worth Media, parent of Worth, the magazine he started in 1992. Good luck, Randy.

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The venture capital firm’s desire to sell the magazine is understandable. According to industry executives, Worth has lost more than $60 million over the last decade. Though Mr. Jones denied that he had tried to find a buyer for the magazine, a competing publisher said that he was contacted and that his company was among a number who declined.

The Wall Street Journal reports that Big Five accounting firms are losing favor with smaller businesses.

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Companies with fewer than 500 employees account for roughly half of private-sector employment in the U.S. And smaller businesses, more reluctant than big, publicly traded companies to hire consultants and investment bankers, continue to rely heavily on their accountants for advice beyond tax and audit work. But the Big Five have image problems. Asked whether the accounting industry has large companies that are responsive to small business, just 11.5% of about 400 small-business owners said yes…”