Brand Loyalty Among Digital Camera Buyers Falls Significantly

imaginginfo.com - Monday 20th May, 2013

WESTLAKE VILLAGE, Calif., Aug. 24 /PRNewswire/ -- As increasing digital camera model offerings challenge perceived product differentiation among consumers, only 26 percent of digital camera buyers say they would purchase the same camera brand in the future -- down from 35 percent in 2005, according to the J.D. Power and Associates 2006 Digital Camera Satisfaction Study(SM) released today. ...

IPC Announces 2009 Professional Photographer Leadership Awards

imaginginfo.com - Monday 20th May, 2013

NEW YORK, NEW YORK, March 26, 2008 -- The International Photographic Council (IPC), a non-governmental organization (NGO) of the United Nations, has announced the recipients of its 11th annual IPC Professional Photographer Leadership Awards. The winners will be recognized at the IPC International Professional Photographers Month luncheon at the United Nations in New York City on Thursday, May 7, ...

Phase One Invests in Mamiya Digital Imaging

imaginginfo.com - Monday 20th May, 2013

TOKYO, Japan, March 26, 2009 -- Phase One A/S and Mamiya Digital Imaging, Ltd. are proud to announce that Phase One is making a significant financial investment in Mamiya Digital Imaging, thus becoming a major shareholder in the company behind the Mamiya brand of medium format cameras and lenses. Terms of the agreement are not being disclosed. The objective of Phase One's investment is to ...

Western Digital Enters Solid-State Drive Market With Acquisition of SiliconSystems

imaginginfo.com - Monday 20th May, 2013

LAKE FOREST, Calif., March 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Western Digital Corp. (NYSE: WDC), a world leader in hard drive storage for computing and consumer electronics applications, today announced that it has completed a $65 million cash acquisition of SiliconSystems, Inc., Aliso Viejo, Calif., a leading supplier of solid-state drives for the embedded systems market. Since its inception in ...

ClearBags Releases Airsafe Product Line

imaginginfo.com - Monday 20th May, 2013

El Dorado Hills, CA March 15th, 2009--ClearBags announced the launch of a new product line of Airsafe Art Boxes that meet the stringent product protection requirements of the largest shipping carriers. "Ever have a customer tell you they buy your products for the packaging you use? Well at ClearBags, we hear it all the time! Many artistic professionals are so impressed with our outer ...

Judge Rules Polaroid Sale May Proceed

imaginginfo.com - Monday 20th May, 2013

Mar. 27--The auction-like sale of Polaroid Corp. can proceed as scheduled next week after U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Gregory Kishel ruled Thursday that it's too late for the company's creditors to question company executives about the pending transaction and other financial matters. Kishel approved a motion by Polaroid's attorneys to quash recent subpoenas for the depositions of CEO ...

98-Year-Old Photographer Captures L.A.s Vintage Homes

imaginginfo.com - Monday 20th May, 2013

March 26, 2009 -- Magazines, newspapers, even family scrapbooks are full of photographs of houses -- graphic examples of the American dream. But pictures by the 98-year-old architectural photographer Julius Shulman are in a league of their own, so distinctive that they are consulted by movie designers, collected by museums and cherished by homeowners who commission them. [See link below for a ...

Image Come to Life Woman Gets to Thank Firefighter Who Rescued Her in 1968

imaginginfo.com - Monday 20th May, 2013

The firefighter crawled on his stomach through the pitch-black apartment, the smoke so thick he couldn't see his hand in front of his face. Somewhere inside was a baby and he had to find her.A window broke, light filled the room, and he saw her lying in her crib, dressed only in a diaper, unconscious. Soot covered her tiny nose. She wasn't breathing and had no pulse.He grabbed her and ...

Bowden weds in New York

Jam! Showbiz - Monday 20th May, 2013

30 Rock star Katrina Bowden walked down the aisle with her rocker beau in Brooklyn, N.Y., on Sunday. The actress exchanged vows with musician Ben Jorgensen in a romantic ceremony at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, a year and a half after they became engaged. The bride and groom and their guests braved the rainy Big Apple weather for the private nuptials, but the newlyweds have some heat to look ...

Snipes on board for Expendables 3

Jam! Showbiz - Monday 20th May, 2013

Actor Wesley Snipes attends a news conference at Galaxy Air at the Orlando International Airport in Orlando, Florida, in this December 8, 2006 file photo. REUTERS/Rick ...

Jordan felt the eclectic beat with STOMP the world reknowned musical show

albawaba - Monday 20th May, 2013

STOMP steps into Jordan (photo from STOMP Facebook page) The individuality and personality of the world-renowned STOMP groupEUR(TM)s members shone through their rehearsals of the choreographed percussion show ahead of their three-day performance at Amman's Palace of Culture.The British show has travelled around the world for over twenty years, with the 12 performers using brooms, lids, ...

Tibetans stage protest against Li Keqiangs visit security stepped up

India Today - Monday 20th May, 2013

Tibetan organisations on Monday staged protests against the visit of Chinese Premier Li Keqiang even as police stepped up security in the city for the leader's arrival.A large number of personnel were deployed at Chinese embassy and the hotel where the Premier is staying and traffic diversions enforced in several places.Traffic diversions will remain in place till Tuesday afternoon, police ...

Sports Briefing | Cycling Giovanni Visconti Wins Stage as Vincenzo Nibali Retains Lead at Giro dItalia

New York Times - Monday 20th May, 2013

A superb solo ride up the grueling Col du Galibier in France gave Giovanni Visconti of Italy the victory in a snowy 15th stage of the Giro ...

RPT-Dubai labourers stage rare strike for more pay

Reuters - Monday 20th May, 2013

Mon May 20, 2013 12:24am EDT (Repeats story originally issued on Sunday with no changes to text) * Arabtec is UAE's largest publicly listed building firm * Labour strikes rare in Gulf, especially among migrant contractors * Strike began on Saturday, spread on Sunday By Praveen Menon DUBAI, May 19 (Reuters) - Thousands of workers employed by Dubai's largest construction firm, Arabtec, ...

Taylor Swift nabs 8 wins at Billboard Music Awards

CBC News - Monday 20th May, 2013

Taylor Swift poses backstage with her awards at the Billboard Music Awards at the MGM Grand Garden Arena on Sunday in Las Vegas. (John Shearer/Invision/Associated ...

Sydney dance teacher Grant Davies 39 accused of taking students naked photos

whatsonsanya - Sunday 19th May, 2013

Court documents showed Grant Davies' wife Lisa Ricketts became suspicious after he became "secretive" and put a security lock on his phone and computer, The Sydney Morning Herald reported. Davies, 39, operated RG Dance Studio in Chiswick in the city's inner west for almost a decade and was allegedly taking photos of naked students, some as young as six, for almost the ...

Wife of bankrupt Dunne plans $150000 gym and cinema upgrade to home

Belfast Telegraph - Sunday 19th May, 2013

20 May 2013 The wife of bust developer Sean Dunne is planning $154,000 worth of improvements to the basement of her new US mansion, the Irish Independent can ...

Vancouver theatre faces a real tragedy

The Globe and Mail - Sunday 19th May, 2013

The Centre for Performing Arts is pictured through a window from the Vancouver Public Library in Vancouver on May 9, 2013. (Ben Nelms for The Globe and ...

Visconti wins snow-covered stage 15 of Giro

sportal.com.au - Sunday 19th May, 2013

Italy's Giovanni Visconti won stage 15 of the Giro d'Italia on Sunday on another weather-affected day of racing.After conditions had forced an alteration to the route on Saturday, organisers followed suit with more changes on Sunday, with the race distance reduced by 4.25 kilometres due to snow.And despite a slow finish, Movistar rider Visconti was rewarded for a brave solo climb.He ...

Conductor James Levine Returns To Lead Metropolitan Opera Orchestra After Partial Paralysis

Huffington Post - Sunday 19th May, 2013

NEW YORK - James Levine rolled onto the Carnegie Hall stage in his black motorized wheelchair and into a 6-by-6-foot mechanical podium constructed by the Metropolitan Opera. Belted into the wheelchair, Levine and two aides waited while the podium hoisted him about 3 feet in the air and its interior rotated 180 degrees to leave him facing the audience. Given a 1-minute standing ovation, he blew ...

Music Review James Levine Returns to the Podium at Carnegie Hall

International Herald Tribune - Sunday 19th May, 2013

Against all odds, James Levine is back. On Sunday afternoon Mr Levine, one of the greatest living American conductors and a musician who has defined the Metropolitan Opera for more than 40 years, cruised onto the stage of Carnegie Hall in a motorized wheelchair and conducted the Met Orchestra in a substantial program, his first performance anywhere in more than two years. The audience, ...

Advertising A Season of Families Vampires and Aliens

International Herald Tribune - Sunday 19th May, 2013

BASED on what the broadcast networks shared with Madison Avenue last week about the coming season, it seems as if the quintessential new series for 2013-14 is a comedy about a family of vampires from space moving in with relatives on earth. O. K., that is an exaggeration. But analysts and executives at media agencies who are studying the schedules announced during upfront week in New ...