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Greetings Fellow Photographers!

Mother’s Day is coming up, so I wanted to do everyone a favor and provide some great tips for Dad and the kids to create a gift for mom that she will cherish forever. Sorry moms, don’t ruin your own surprise stop reading now and forward this on to your husband and kids!

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·    Glynn Lavender is retail operations manager of Camera Action Camera House[Link]  and Camera House Digital[Link…the links are different and correct in NLI. Thanks!], in Melbourne, Australia. Learn about this thriving business and Lavender’s goals for his new role as DIMA board member in the newest DIMAcast.

·    Fidelity Electronics Inc., Toronto, Ontario, Canada, announced the asset purchase of Shikatronics Inc. , Brossard, Quebec, Canada, including their digital flash memory, computer memory and imaging accessory product lines. Fidelity is a provider of imaging and consumer products, operating from Toronto, Montreal, Buffalo, and Hong Kong. 

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· Fujifilm Graphic Systems U.S.A. Inc., Valhalla, N.Y., named Masahiro Ota the company’s new president and chief executive officer. Ota replaces Hiro Tada, who has taken a new position as president and chief executive officer with Fujifilm’s Medical Imaging Division. Ota joined Fujifilm in 1980 and first worked in human resources in the Fujinomiya site and in planning and administration for the recording media business in both Japan and Greenwood, S.C.
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PMA, Jackson, Mich., released the Monthly Printing and Camera Trends Report covering highlights and overviews through February by PMA Marketing Research. The report covers digital print volume, digital printing share — detail, and digital printing share — channel trends. The report also includes data provided by NPD Group Inc. detailing overall camera sales, analog, one-time-use, and digital camera sales.

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PMA, Jackson, Mich., announces the availability of the  2008 DIMA Photo Kiosk Virtual Showroom Report, designed to help retailers get the most of their photo kiosk strategies. Tested both by consumers and by experts, the 25 photo kiosks included in the report were placed in a side-by-side comparison at the DIMA Photo Kiosk Shoot-Out Competition, held at PMA 08.

  The report contains more than 250 pages of photos, specifications, pricing information, screenshots, contacts, and descriptions. Non-members may download a PDF of the report for $49, order a CD for $99 plus shipping, or order a full-color hard copy for $149 plus shipping. PMA members can download a PDF of the report for free. Members can also purchase a CD containing the report for $19.95 plus shipping or purchase a full-color hard copy for $99 plus shipping. To order at member prices, please e-mail PMA_Membership@pmai.org.

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  The API and supporting materials let developers give users access to their photos and videos from places beyond Photobucket.com, including other websites, Web applications, desktop applications, browser plug-ins, mobile phones, home-entertainment systems, digital photo frames, and cameras.

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Framing Success Inc., Virginia Beach, Va., a leader in custom diploma framing, was acquired by Herff Jones Inc. on April 4. Framing Success will maintain its name and will continue to operate from its new headquarters building in Virginia Beach.

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Entrepeneur and venture capitalist Guy Kawasaki kicks off the first AIE Imaging Executive podcast with a discussion on the basics of entrepeneurship, new models of the internet business, and what it takes to compete in the next wave of the Internet. [Read more →]

·    Today’s addition to the DIMA podcast library presents the Closing Keynote session from  DIMA 2007 held in Las Vegas, Nev., in March, just prior to PMA 07. Graham Nash and R. Mac Holbert, founders of Nash Editions Ltd., Manhattan Beach, Calif., were presented with the DIMA Lifetime Achievement Award. Nash and Holbert then shared with the audience the entertaining and fascinating story of their history in this industry and in the world of rock ‘n roll. Download the podcast now to hear it for yourself.

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