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·    The recently-ended PMA Australia 2008 Imaging Technology Show, held in Brisbane, Australia is covered in the most recent DIMAcast. The new DIMAcast features Bill McCurry’s PMA Australia Marketing Idea Exchange, recorded live at the show. Hear some of the most successful ideas in photo retailing from Down Under by downloading the podcast. A […]

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·    Noritsu America Corp., Bueno Park, Calif., appointed John Walsh to the position of sales representative. Walsh will be responsible for business development and customer relationship management in the area of Florida and Puerto Rico. Walsh has more than 20 years of photo and digital imaging experience. Prior to joining Noritsu, he served as […]

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Best Buy Co. Inc., Richfield, Minn., is testing a free program that will offer consumers a convenient way to ensure millions of obsolescent TVs, old computers, and other unwanted electronic gadgets don’t poison the nation’s dumps, reports The Associated Press. The trial covers 117 Best Buy stores scattered across eight states and will collect a variety of electronics […]

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This month, PMA Magazine - Connecting the Imaging Communities features a look at the new concept store platform from national book chain, Borders Inc. The Ann Arbor, Mich.-concept store added photo printing and photo book services to its revamped digital media offerings in the nearly 30,000-square-foot store. (Additional Borders concept stores are also open elsewhere in the United States.)
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Canon U.S.A. Inc., Lake Success, N.Y., launched the first of two new television commercials to support the Canon EOS Rebel and Canon PowerShot digital camera lines. The first televisionspot, “Journey,” focuses on the EOS Rebel XSi and was shot primarily with Canon EOS-1D Mark III professional DSLR cameras. The Rebel XSi commercial blends individual digital […]

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Nine senior photojournalism students at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) have created an innovative multimedia website, Frostbitesports.com. The student photojournalists chronicled different sports linked by one common thread — an extreme element. Through a blend of photography, audio, and video, FrostbiteSports.com looks into the world of extreme winter sports, exploring into the motivations and passions […]

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Eastman Kodak Co., Rochester, N.Y., resolved its patent dispute with St. Clair Intellectual Property Consultants Inc., Grosse Point, Mich. Effective May 14, the parties entered into a Settlement Agreement that resolves all of the litigation between them.
  Under the terms of the settlement, Kodak assigned its rights in the patents in dispute to St. Clair, and […]

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PixFusion LLC, New York, N.Y., creators of customized video products and services and owner of a patent portfolio relating to personalized video and entertainment products, settled its patent infringement claim against FunnyBit Studios LLC, Flower Mound, Texas. The U.S. Patents involved in the settlement include: Nos. 5,623,587 and 6,351,265, and patents issuing from U.S. Patent Application […]

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Ronald L. Olson, 62, a longtime PMA member and MotoPhoto franchisee passed away on May 8 after a long and courageous battle against cancer. Olson’s career in the photo business began in 1962 at Walgreen Drug and progressed to a MotoPhoto franchise in 1987. Later he ran multiple locations in Arizona and became the area […]

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Melvin J. Zweig, 91, one of the founders of Penn Camera Exchange, Washington, D.C., passed away on April 27. Zweig, along with his three brothers Oscar, Samuel, and the late Benson Zweig, bought the building and inventory of the bankrupt Ford Photo Supply on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C., and renamed it Penn Camera Exchange […]

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