Nikon’s Arnold Kamen earns NAPET’s LaCroix award
Nikon Inc., Melville, N.Y., is proud to announce the National Association of Photo Equipment Technicians (NAPET) — a PMA member association — recently awarded its highest level of achievement, the George LaCroix Memorial Award, to Arnold H. Kamen, vice president of operations and customer services, Nikon Inc.
Kamen was presented with the award for outstanding service [...]
Photo Tech expands repair service
Photo Tech, New York, N.Y., which claims to be the largest camera repair center in New York, has announced a partnership with CPR (Cell Phone Repair), the nation’s largest cell phone repair franchise with more than 50 locations across the United States. Photo Tech now has the capacity to service such devices as iPhones, Blackberrys, [...]
Mobile retail market to exceed $12 billion by 2014, Juniper report finds
A new report from Juniper Research, Hampshire, United Kingdom, found one-to-one marketing allied to the rapid proliferation of smartphones will be among the key drivers of a mobile retail market which is anticipated to exceed $12 billion by 2014.
The mobile marketing and retail strategies report found that the mobile retail sector — defined by Juniper [...]
Forrester forecasts double-digit growth for online retail in U.S. and Europe
Despite entering a more mature phase in its evolution, online retail in both the United States and Western Europe remains poised for a robust period of double-digit growth over the next five years, according to two new forecasts by Forrester Research Inc., Cambridge, Mass. U.S. online retail will grow at a 10 percent compound annual [...]
PDA photo calculator updated
Britain’s Douglas Software has launched an enhanced version of its Photo Calculator software for PDAs. Photo Calculator 2.2.0 is designed to solve everyday optical equations in English, French, German, Italian and Spanish.
It will, for example, calculate depth of field, hyperfocal distance, image dimensions and angle of view. There’s a ‘resolution option’ allowing the user [...]
Coffee and angels, from PMA magazine
Specialty Color Services promotes caffenol film processing while helping Vitamin Angels save kids
An estimated 190 million children worldwide suffer from vitamin A deficiency, a condition that costs the lives of 670,000 infants and kids younger than 5 years old every year, and causes blindness in another 350,000. For a mere 25 cents per child per [...]
Animoto launches QuickStart workflow for pro photographers
Animoto Productions, New York, N.Y., today launched QuickStart, a new tool for companies serving professional photographers. With QuickStart companies can seamlessly send photo and video assets directly to Animoto, allowing their clients to initiate Animoto projects directly from their own Web site. The company says launch partners include White House Custom Colour, SmugMug and TimeExposure’s [...]
Sony MAP to include digital imaging products
Beginning April 1, Sony Electronics, San Diego, CA, expands its Minimum Advertised Pricing (MAP) program to include Sony digital imaging products.
In a letter to its dealers on March 4, Mike Fasulo, Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer, said MAP “will apply for select categories and models within digital imaging.” This means X Series Cyber-shot [...]
Adobe Photoshop.com Mobile Editor now available to Android developers
Adobe Systems Inc., San Jose, Calif., announced third-party application developers now have access to the Photoshop.com Mobile for Android 1.1 editor, allowing them to easily make it a part of their applications. In addition, Photoshop.com Mobile for Android 1.1 is available, providing users of the Google Mobile operating system with quick and easy photo-editing [...]
Boomers slowly warm to mobile web
Mobile imaging is a growing trend on smart phones such as Apple’s iPhone — but eMarketer reports that one key demographic has been slow to adopt phone photography: baby boomers.
“Boomers are underrepresented among smart phone users,” the research firm says.
According to the Pew Research Center, more than 85 percent of boomers own a mobile, but the [...]
