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RED announces HYDROGEN “media” smartphone New Products News Press releases 

RED announces HYDROGEN “media” smartphone

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RED Inc., the company behind the RED digital cinema cameras, announced the Hydrogen described as the “world’s first holographic media machine. In your pocket. No glasses needed.” The unlocked Android smartphone will come in two versions, the $1,595 Titanium and the $1,195 Aluminum. At this point, details are sketchy, other than the phone will has a USB-C port, takes microSD... Read More
Connected Pet Leader Petcube Acquires PetBot, Creator of ’Selfie-Taking’ Treat Camera News Press releases 

Connected Pet Leader Petcube Acquires PetBot, Creator of ’Selfie-Taking’ Treat Camera

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SAN FRANCISCO, June 29, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — Petcube, the leader in the Connected Pet category, today announced it has acquired PetBot, a Canadian startup behind the Indiegogo-funded PetBot ‘selfie-taking’ treat dispensing pet camera. The acquisition includes the company’s intellectual property and assets. PetBot CTO and founder Misko Dzamba will be joining the Petcube engineering team as Principal Engineer. “We’ve admired... Read More
Legion Paper to Distribute Canson Infinity Papers News Press releases 

Legion Paper to Distribute Canson Infinity Papers

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New York, NY—Legion Paper, the largest supplier of fine art paper in North America, was named the exclusive North American distributor of Canson Infinity. Canon offers a premier family of fine art inkjet papers for digital printmakers and artists.The partnership agreement combines Legion’s logistics, distribution, marketing, sales and customer relation expertise with Canson Infinity’s quality, consistency and heritage in papermaking.Canson Infinity... Read More
Micron Discontinuing Lexar Removable Storage Retail Business News 

Micron Discontinuing Lexar Removable Storage Retail Business

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Micron Technology today announced that it is discontinuing its Lexar® retail removable media storage business. The decision was made as part of the company’s ongoing efforts to focus on its increasing opportunities in higher value markets and channels. The Lexar portfolio includes memory cards, USB flash drives, readers, and storage drives for retail and OEM customers. Source: Micron Technology, Inc.... Read More
Professional Photographers of America (PPA) Extends International Photographic Competition Entry Deadline News Press releases 

Professional Photographers of America (PPA) Extends International Photographic Competition Entry Deadline

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ATLANTA, GA (PRWEB) JUNE 22, 2017 — Professional Photographers of America (PPA) has extended the deadline for submissions to the International Photographic Competition (IPC) to give more photographers the opportunity to enter. Photographers now have the “late registration window” from June 22, 5pm ET, 2017 until July 6, 5pm ET, 2017 to enter their images, with an additional late fee... Read More
Phhhoto shutters app and pivots to photobooths, blaming Instagram, via TechCrunch News 

Phhhoto shutters app and pivots to photobooths, blaming Instagram, via TechCrunch

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Animated GIF capture tool and social network Phhhoto is shutting down its app due to server costs becoming unsustainable after getting slammed with competition by Instagram’s copycat Boomerang. Phhhoto will pivot to focus on its parent company HYPNO’s original business — physical photobooths for events. Phhhoto launched in July 2014, making it easy to hold down its shutter button and capture... Read More
79% of millennials influenced by online deals News Opinion 

79% of millennials influenced by online deals

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Interesting article from FierceRetail: Millennials are signing up for promotional emails, following brands on social media and scouring the web for the best deals. According to a recent report from CouponFollow, 69% of this savvy generation search for coupon codes and most spend at least three minutes searching for these codes. More here: 79% of millennials influenced by online deals... Read More
Vivid-Pix Reviews Phones, Cameras and Underwater Housings to Help Get Great Underwater and Vacation Photos News Press releases 

Vivid-Pix Reviews Phones, Cameras and Underwater Housings to Help Get Great Underwater and Vacation Photos

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ALPHARETTA, GA (PRWEB) JUNE 20, 2017 – Vivid-Pix, a software company with a focus on photography, and Sandy Sondrol, a professional photographer and instructor, compared more than a dozen smartphones, cameras, and underwater housings to help consumers get better vacation photos. This extensive, first-time review of automatic settings, manual settings, internal filter modes, and external filters, across such a wide... Read More
Vistaprint Opens First Brick and Mortar Retail Space News Press releases 

Vistaprint Opens First Brick and Mortar Retail Space

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June 13, 2017 02:40 PM Eastern Daylight Time – WALTHAM, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Nearly two decades after it started offering professional marketing products and services online to small business owners, Vistaprint has opened its first ever brick and mortar retail space in downtown Toronto. Business owners can now access the quality marketing products at unbeatable prices they have become accustomed to, but... Read More
WWDC takeaways: lots of great news for photo app developers, but one major puzzler  Market research News 

WWDC takeaways: lots of great news for photo app developers, but one major puzzler 

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WWDC takeaways: lots of great news for photo app developers, excerpt from Hans Hartman at Suite 48a: Apple’s OS 11 developer ARKit enables developers to build mixed reality apps that interpret the imagery from the user’s iPhone camera by identifying surfaces, tracking motion, estimating scale as well as ambient lighting, and by providing fast and stable motion tracking. What does that mean?... Read More
Interview: Thomas Beguin, co-founder, ReSnap News 

Interview: Thomas Beguin, co-founder, ReSnap

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The Dead Pixels Society recently interviewed (via email) Thomas Beguin, co-founder of ReSnap, a Dutch photo-book technology company. The company was in the news recently for acquiring Bundle, a company that developed intelligent photo-organization technology. Can you tell us about ReSnap – a little about how the company has started and grown? Beguin: ReSnap started in 2013 out of the... Read More
The world’s leading trade fair for photo, video and imaging is repositioning itself Events News Press releases 

The world’s leading trade fair for photo, video and imaging is repositioning itself

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photokina 2018: the world’s leading trade fair for photo, video and imaging is repositioning itself photokina will take place annually as of 2018. It will in future thus optimally reflect the fast-paced nature and the ever briefer innovation cycles of an increasingly digitalised industry. As of 2019 the trade fair will also have a new date in May. In addition... Read More
Google wants in on the photo book business. But why? News Opinion 

Google wants in on the photo book business. But why?

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Google wants in on the photo book business. This was revealed last week at the Google I/O conference where the Google Photos team unleashed three announcements – Suggested Sharing, Shared Libraries, Photo Books – along with the statement there are 500 million regular users, uploading 1.2 billion photos and videos a day. Second to Facebook, Google Photos is probably the... Read More
Sony Introduces Two New Wide-Angle Full-Frame E-Mount Lenses News Press releases 

Sony Introduces Two New Wide-Angle Full-Frame E-Mount Lenses

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New 16-35mm F2.8 GM Completes the E-mount F2.8 G Master “trinity”; 12-24mm F4 G covers widest angle among all full-frame E-mount lenses SAN DIEGO, May 17, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — Sony Electronics, a worldwide leader in digital imaging and the world’s largest image sensor manufacturer, has today announced two new additions to their growing lineup of full-frame E-mount lenses. The new... Read More