PMA+ offers retailers easy, affordable, ready-to-use holiday campaign
PMA, Jackson, Michigan, has launched an agency-developed holiday campaign as part of the new PMA+ membership services. The customizable materials promote photo books, greeting cards, and more.
“Social imaging” is focus of latest “The 6Sight Report”
The September/October issue of The 6Sight Report, the voice of the 6Sight Future of Imaging executive conference is now available. This edition discusses “Social Photography” – imaging in three new and related areas:
Internet and Mobile Imaging
Glenn Paul, dotPhoto co-founder, explains what’s worked and what hasn’t.nternet and Mobile Imaging
Glenn Paul, dotPhoto co-founder, explains what’s worked and [...]
Museo Artist Cards offer new packaging, price points
Museo Fine Art, a brand of digital fine art media from InteliCoat Technologies, South Hadley, Mass., has redesigned packaging configurations for Museo Artist Cards. In addition to reflecting the product line’s standalone identity since being acquired by InteliCoat Technologies, the new Museo Artist Card packaging offers larger count boxes and bulk cartons for high volume [...]
Skype founders seek to block Index, Volpi
Reuters reports Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis, founders of phone-over-internet company Skype, have asked a U.S. federal court to prevent Index Ventures and one of its partners, Michelangelo Volpi, from further participating in the proposed $1.9 billion acquisition of Skype.
The suit says Index and Volpi were using confidential information in their bid to acquire a [...]
PMA releases the new 2009 PMA U.S. Consumer Photo Buying Report
Did you know that 73 percent of U.S. households owned digital cameras in 2008? Or that 61 percent of digital camera owners made paper prints from their digital images? In 2008, one-third of U.S. households made or ordered photo publishing products. Camera phone penetration more than doubled since 2005, present in 58 percent of U.S. households in [...]
International Paper launches new website
International Paper, Memphis, Tenn., launched its newly developed website, enabling access to solutions for customers around the globe, as well as providing instant access to product and company information — including xpedx, its North American distribution company.
The site also includes IP’s array of products, solutions and services, available to customers in 18 countries and regions, [...]
Third quarter results of Nokia
Nokia Corp., Espoo, Finland, has announced its results for the third quarter 2009. Total sales reached Euro 9.81 billion (US-$ 14.6 billion), a 19.8 percent decline year on year and a minus of 1 percent compared with the second quarter 2009. The company‘s operating result turned from a profit of Euro 1.47 billion (US-$ 2.19 [...]
Washington Report: Employment Tax Audits
The IRS plans to select 6,000 businesses for a special audit on employment taxes. The audits are conducted under what the IRS calls their “National Research Program” (NRP). The NRP is used to collect data so the IRS can hone its profiles for future audits. The selection of taxpayers for the NRP audits is random, [...]
John Whitmore joins Diversified Imaging Supply
John Whitmore, formerly with Fuji Hunt Chemicals for 11 years as a technical sales representative and for three years with Fuji Film USA as a chemical specialist and a technical sales representative in the Professional Imaging Division, is now the new Pacific NW sales manager for Diversified Imaging, Supply Gardena, Calif. His new [...]
Hallmark Institute of Photography offers new class start date
Hallmark Institute of Photography, Turner Falls, Mass., opened up a new class start date for its 10-month professional photography curriculum. The program will begin with a three-day Orientation from Jan. 13-15, 2010, with classes beginning on Jan.19, 2010. Students successfully completing this curriculum will have a formal graduation ceremony on Oct. 29, 2010.
Hallmark President [...]
