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March 08, 2007

[PMA Sneak Peak] Samsung plans Wi-Fi enabled still cameras

Samsung spokesperson Jason Ledder confirmed that inspite the Korean manufacturer lack of Wi-Fi enabled cameras yet, there are plans in place to bring yet un-announced Wi-Fi cameras to market to complement the copmany's 3G cameras. The i70 and the...

[PMA Sneak Peak] 6.1 megapixels is more than enough says Nikon

No new products at the Nikon booth. The Japanese company was just showing off their already announced 8 Coolpix cameras as well as a couple of SLRs like the D40x with 10.2 megapixel resolution. I liked the Wi-Fi support built...

March 07, 2007

[PMA Sneak Peak] PhotoChannel Networks unveils custom music service

Fairly unknown in the US, Canada-based PhotoChannel Networks (PNI) is actually one of the leader in digital photo ordering providing the back-end platform for large retailers like Kmart, CVS/pharmacy and Eckerd Drugs. In the US, we probably have a 30%...

[PMA Sneak Peak] PNY launching 16GB USB flash drive, 8GB SDHC

Not a lot of excitement at the PNY booth this year, inspite of latest 8GB and 16GB USB flash drives and a new 8GB Secure Digital High Capacity (SDHC) Class 6 card. We have the widest array of flash...

[PMA Sneak Peak] Sharpics demonstrates D-Flector portable/tabletop photo studio

At the Sharpics booth I got a demo of the D-Flector. Resembling a briefcase, this portable photo studio can be used on any tabletop or desk and is ideal to photograph products (jewelries, toys, glass...). Just put the object on...

[PMA Sneak Peak] Xerox digital machines print, bind and more

Brian Segnit, manager of photo and book printing at Xerox Production Systems Group, was showing some outputs of the company's digital printers, like the Phaser 7760 or the DocuColor 240/250 that enable retailers to make photo specialty products on-site,...

[PMA Sneak Peak] Chromaluxe introducing super resistant photo panels

At Sneak Peak, Chromaluxe's photo channel products manager Tom Johnson was demonstrating the company's "Brand Photo Panels": a new display/mounting option for digital images that uses the sublimation printing process. The benefit is that it is extremely durable and a...

[PMA Sneak Peak] DivX showing up in Pentax digital cameras, launching YouTube for the Pros

At Sneak Peak, I chat with Jennifer Culter with DivX about the video specialist presence in an "imaging" conference. We are partnering with Pentax to demonstrate our DivX certified digital still cameras. What it does is it shoots videos natively...

On the way to PMA

I've just arrived before noon in Las Vegas to cover PMA 07, the world's largest annual international photo imaging convention and trade show... so *they* say. I heard Photokina in Cologne, Germany is also another major event in this industry...

March 04, 2007

Business Objects cafeteria is lousy, employees complain

Over the week-end, I overheard a conversation by San Jose-based Business Objects' staff on their cafeteria: it just sucks! "The French in the company bring their own food [...] they don't go to the cafeteria". The whole discussion actually started...