Three photo sharing and management sites shutting down
According to a report at xconomy.com, three Web 2.0-era photo sharing and management services-BubbleShare, Riya, and PicMe-announced late last week they’re shutting down operations. According to the article by Wade Roush: “The closings aren’t entirely coincidental. Greg Raiz of Raizlabs, the Cambridge, MA-based software development house that built PicMe, says he accelerated plans to mothball [...]
U.S. International Trade Commission rules in Nokia/InterDigital case
Nokia Corp. of Espoo, Finland, announced a United States International Trade Commission (ITC) judge issued an Initial Determination in favour of Nokia in the action brought by InterDigital against Nokia. The case, filed by InterDigital, alleged Nokia infringed four patents that InterDigital asserts to be essential for the UMTS (3G) mobile standard. The judge found [...]
Discover how digital imaging affects printing, photo merchandise and social networks in today’s DIMAcast
In today’s DIMAcast, PMA Publisher Gary Pageau interviews David Haueter, associate director of InfoTrend‘s Photo Printing Trends and Photo Merchandise services. Haueter’s responsibilities include product coverage, trend analysis, primary market research, and gathering forecast data for the photo print and photo merchandise markets. Prior to joining InfoTrends, Haueter was principal analyst for the Digital Documents [...]
Frame gallery hosts camera club
Black Iris Gallery & Custom Framing, Spooner, Wis., hosted the Northern Lights Camera Club second-annual photography exhibit and artist reception Aug. 8. Twelve NLCC members exhibited, including portrait photographers as well as landscapers, and a variety of levels. Photographers each gave a presentation on their work. The show will run through Sept. 12, with photos on display, [...]
PMA Data Watch: A look at popular photo book styles
According to PMA Marketing Research, the U.S. photo book market is expected to reach $340 million in 2009. In 2008, 10 percent of households completed photo books. The majority of households (69 percent) that made photo books made them as family keepsakes. Thirty-seven percent of households made them as a way of showing pictures to [...]
JCPenney reports smaller second quarter loss
J. C. Penney Co. Inc., Plano, Texas, reported a $1 million net income loss for the second quarter ended Aug. 1, 2009, versus income of $117 million last year. Total sales in the second quarter decreased 7.9 percent compared to last year, while comparable store sales decreased 9.5 percent. Geographically, the best performance was in [...]
New on PMA TV: Action photography up close
Action photography is one of the most in-demand topics for sports photographers. Learn all the elements for a successful shoot in a new presentation now on PMA TV, featuring Don Frankle of LehighPhoto.com, who spoke on action photography at a SPAA 2009 Annual Conference session. This segment is a Powerpoint presentation with audio.
Winners of Nikon Photo Contest International 2008-2009 announced
Nikon Corp., Tokyo, Japan, announces the winners of the Nikon Photo Contest International 2008-2009 – one of the world’s largest and most prestigious photo contests. Held since 1969 and currently staged once every other year, the contest provides an opportunity for photographers around the world to communicate and to enrich photographic culture for professionals and [...]
Unique Apps launches PhotoScatter for iPhone
iPhone app publisher, Unique Apps, Tamps, Fla., released a new iPhone application called PhotoScatter. This app allows users to submit photos to most of the top photo sharing sites on the internet. Users simple select or take a photo, choose the sites to submit to, add a title and description, if desired, and submit. Version [...]
Toshiba touts fastest, biggest SD card
Toshiba Corp., Tokyo, Japan, claims its 64 gigabyte SDXC card will have the world’s fastest data transfer rate for reading and writing to a flash storage card: a maximum write speed of 35 megabytes per second, and a read speed of 60 megabytes per second. In addition, 64GB is the largest capacity yet available in [...]
