As holidays approach, PMA+ offers promotional campaign
PMA Marketing Toolkit offers photo retailers a ready-to-use holiday campaign for the Christmas sales season.
Google upgrades storage tiers for Picasa, Gmail and Blogger
Earlier this week, Google Inc., Mountain View, Calif., made changes to both the storage tiers and pricing for Picasa and other services. Users may purchase more storage space when they run out of free storage space in Gmail, Picasa Web Albums and Blogger (for photos). Free storage space is specific to each product. Picasa Web [...]
Ricoh launches unique camera
Cross a point and shoot camera with a large format camera and what do you get? A compact camera with lensboards. That’s an inexact description of a new interchangeable lens digital camera, the GXR, laying claim to the title of the world’s smallest and lightest digital camera with the ability to change lenses. Lenses are [...]
Best Buy International CEO retires, will not be replaced
Best Buy Co. Inc., Minneapolis, Minn, announced International CEO Robert A. Willett will retire effective Dec. 31, 2009. The company does not plan to name a successor to the specific role of International CEO. Brian J. Dunn, Chief Executive of Best Buy, says the company has strong local leaders and teams in every country in [...]
Hahnemuhle Gallerie Wrap stretcher bars now available in convenient Pair Packs
Hahnemühle, Woodstock, Ill., announces it Gallerie Wrap Standard (1¼-inch-deep) stretcher bars can now be purchased in more convenient, more economical Pair Packs. Each pack contains two bars of a given length, two corner braces and two corner holding pins. This will allow a customer who wants to make one 16-by-20-inch canvas wrap, for example, to [...]
Samsung reports $3.8 billion third quarter profits
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Seoul, Korea, announced global revenues of 35.87 trillion Korean Won (approximately US$29 billion) on a consolidated basis for the third quarter ended Sept. 30, 2009, an 18.5 percent increase year-on-year. Consolidated operating profit for the 3rd quarter was 4.23 trillion Korean Won, a 185.8 percent increase year-on-year. Income before income taxes [...]
TAOPIX appoints vice president for the Americas, opens U.S. office
TAOPIX, the British software developer of the TAOPIX V2.5 end-to-end photobook workflow solution, opened a sales and marketing office to service the growing North and South American photobook market. The new TAOPIX Americas office, officially opened on Nov. 1, will be headed by Gadi Kovarsky, vice president, TAOPIX Americas and based in San Diego, Calif. [...]
Snapfish adds pickup through Wal-Mart, Duane Reade
Snapfish by HP, Palo Alto, Calif., partnered with Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Bentonville, Ark., and drug store chain Duane Reade, New York, N.Y., to allow customers to pick up photo prints or photo cards ordered on Snapfish.com. The service will enable customers to order prints online and pick them up at a local store within an [...]
WhichBox Media launches fotobox web-to-print service
Internet-based publishing software services company WhichBox Media, Dallas, Texas, launched the fotobox Web-to-Print service, making it easy and affordable for consumers in the whichbox Network, as well as at whichbox affiliates and strategic partners, to combine their own digital imagery with exclusive designer layouts and designs to create photo books, calendars, and other products. The [...]
HP announces preliminary fourth quarter declines
HP, Palo Alto, Calif., announced preliminary results for the fourth fiscal quarter 2009, with revenue of $30.8 billion, down 8 percent from a year earlier; down 5 percent when adjusted for the effects of currency and up 12 percent sequentially. “Solid execution drove exceptional performance for HP this quarter, fueled by significant growth in China,” [...]
