Consolidated Graphics cuts staff and wages
Consolidated Graphics, Houston, Texas has cut wages from 10 to 15 percent and let go a number of employees -although just how many employees have lost their jobs has not been revealed. CEO Joe Davies says the cuts were necessary to allow Consolidated Graphics to reduce prices enough to remain competitive.
Despite the reductions, the company [...]
Microsoft and Nokia form global alliance
Microsoft and Nokia announced an agreement to collaborate immediately on the design, development and marketing of productivity solutions for the mobile professional, bringing Microsoft Office Mobile and Microsoft business communications, collaboration and device management software to Nokia’s Symbian devices. According to a press release, this is the first time that either company has embarked on [...]
PNI Digital Media sets record Q3 revenue, record transactions
PNI Digital Media, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, posted revenue for the third quarter of fiscal 2009 of C$5.4 million representing an increase of 29 percent over the same period last year. A third quarter record of 3.4 million orders were transacted over the PNI Digital Media Platform, representing a 79 percent increase year over year.
“We [...]
Sinar Bron adds Sunbounce products
Sinar Bron Imaging, Edison, N.J., has signed an exclusive distribution agreement with California Sunbounce, and is announcing three new products: The Sun-Sniper camera strap, the Sun-Mover collapsible reflector, and the Sun-Bouncer Camera Flash Bracket.
The Sun-Sniper is a quick, pliant and ultra convenient camera strap for professional photographers. It has a shock absorber to handle jolts [...]
Spectrum brands announces smaller quarterly loss
Spectrum Brands, a global consumer products company, reported a net loss of $36.5 million for the third quarter ended June 28, 2009 compared to net loss of $283.9 million or $5.58 loss per share for the third quarter ended June 29, 2008.
Net sales for the third quarter ended June 28, 2009 were $589.4 million versus [...]
ShoZu announces new custom edition client for BlackBerry Smartphones
ShoZu Ltd., London, United Kingdom, is poised to enhance social networking on BlackBerry smartphones with the introduction of a new, highly integrated client, available on BlackBerry App World.
The new ShoZu client takes the ShoZu service on BlackBerry smartphones to a higher level of functionality – beyond just uploading to multiple social networking sites simultaneously. It [...]
Kodak unveils higher speed i1200 and i1300 Series scanners
Eastman Kodak Co., Rochester, N.Y., introduces the new i1200 Plus and i1300 Plus Series Scanners, with up to 50 percent speed increase over their predecessor models. With no additional cost to its customers, the Kodak i1200 Plus and i1300 Plus Series Scanners will improve document capture productivity for departmental and workgroup scanning.
The Kodak i1200 Plus [...]
New eROI study finds e-mail marketers fail the test
A new study conducted May-June 2009 by e-mail marketing agency eROI shows 37.1 percent of US e-mail marketers did not test their e-mail campaigns, despite the fact that testing and optimization mean greater success at a lower cost, eMarketer reports.
Among marketers who failed to test campaigns, the most common reason was that they simply did [...]
Rich Campbell talks about new Samsung innovations in a special DIMAcast today
Samsung Electronics America Inc., Ridgefield Park, N.J., has brought innovation and style to the compact camera market. In this special podcast, Samsung director of marketing, Rich Campbell, talks to PMA publisher Gary Pageau about three new innovative cameras, announced today: the wireless and geo-aware CL65 and the dual-LCD and social-media driven TL225 and TL220 models. [...]
