Reporters Notebook

March 3, 2009 | Link This | Email this | Comments (0)

PMA and its affiliates bestowed their annual awards at its tradeshow this week.

The envelope please ….

Shigetaka Komori, president and CEO, Fujifilm, won the Photoimaging Manufacturers and Distributors Association’s (PMDA) Person of the Year award.

The Digital Imaging Manufacturers Association announced the winners of its Innovative awards and printer shoot-out. Among the Innovation winners were:

• Fujifilm for the F200EXR
• HP’s iPrint Photo and Photo Center 4.0
• Pandigital PhotoLink Scanner
• Samsung’s HMX-H106 camcorder

February 27, 2009 | Link This | Email this | Comments (0)

Digital frame maker MediaStreet has launched a new service which will provide free photos to digital photo frame owners (of any make and model). MyDigitalContent will offer a reservoir of free images available for download, in the event you’re tired of staring at your friends and family.

February 25, 2009 | Link This | Email this | Comments (0)

February 13, 2009 | Link This | Email this | Comments (0)

Your weekly fix of news in the distribution world:

• DBL Distributing is now carrying the EcoSmart line of bamboo-based computer accessories from Micro Innovations. Due in April, the line includes a keyboard, an optical mouse, a two-channel speaker system, a 1.3-megapixel Web cam, a four-port USB hub, memory card reader/writer and USB keypad.
• Petra Industries relaunched its Web site this week. Among the new features is a one page checkout screen a new account dashboard for viewing order history, and the abili

February 10, 2009 | Link This | Email this | Comments (0)

John Siracusa has a great piece on the subject here.

To set the table:

The pace of the e-book market over the past decade has been excruciatingly—and yes, you guessed it, unjustly—slow. My frustration is much like that of the Mac users of old. Here's an awesome, obvious, inevitable idea, seemingly thwarted at every turn by widespread consumer misunderstanding and an endemic lack of will among the big players.