New holiday frames, textures, layouts, backgrounds, and adornments available for all PhotoFrame 3 and 4 owners PORTLAND, Ore. -- November 20, 2008 -- onOne Software, Inc., a leading developer of innovative software tools for photographers, today announced the availability of holiday-themed frames, textures, layouts, backgrounds, and adornments for their award-winning Photoshop plug-ins, PhotoFrame 3 and PhotoFrame 4. The new content adds the perfect...

Personal Publishing Photo Products Pay Off in Tough Retail Climate Vienna, Va., Nov. 20, 2008 – Photo retailers offering a wide variety of creative photo products like photo books, calendars and folded cards are enjoying a strong fourth quarter despite a tough economic environment, according to the latest APM Network data from Lucidiom.  Year-over-year data for the month of October shows that photo book orders increased 576 percent...

Canon USA has today released an official statement updating customers on how to proceed in the wake of rebate fulfilment company CPG's bankruptcy filing. The statement can be read in full on the Canon USA website. Instructions to customers holding rebate checks or intending to apply for rebates are as follows: "If you are holding or receive a rebate check for printer or video pr...

Bogen is offering a $100 back by mail when you purchase either the Manfrotto 501HDV,351MVB2k or the Manfrotto 503HDV,351MVB2K video tripod kit PLUS one of the Kata Bags listed below. Purchases made between November 1, 2008 and January 31, 2009 qualify. Qualifying products may be purchased from multiple dealers but rebates being submitted MUST be claimed on a single rebate form.

• Kata KT CC-193
• Kata KT CC-195
• Kata KT CC-197
• Kata KT VA-002-10A (CCC-10-A)
• Kata KT VA-002-1A (CCC-1-A)
• Kata KT BP-502

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JOBO AG introduces today two new digital picture frames into the growing JOBO family of digital imaging products. The new JOBO Photo Display PDJ801 and PDJ800 both feature a 8.4" high-resolution and brilliant TFT-Color-LCD display designed to beautifully showcase digital images. These frames are designed to keep memories alive by showcasing digital pictures in an automatic slideshow presentation giving precious digital memories new life. Additionally, these frames enable users to highlight their special photographic moments and easily share them with family and friends. The new JOBO digital picture frames feature a handsome Acrylic frame with a modern metal trim to fit in with any decor in the home or office.

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Canon today re-issued new rebate forms for their Canon DSLR / PIXMA Pro9000 & Pro9500 rebate offer and alerts dealers that the third-party rebate processing company, Continental Promotion Group (CPG), that was responsible for processing rebate claims and issuing mail-in-rebate (MIR) checks for Canon-brand printer and video products (along with many other products of a number of other companies) filed a Chapter 11 Bankruptcy petition on Friday, November 14th. Read the full story for complete details.

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CPG Marketing Co. Inc. and Continental Promotion Group Inc., two companies responsible for providing rebate fulfilment services to a wide range of companies, have this week filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy. According to a report in the Tampa Bay Business Journal, the companies have together laid off 17 employees and have liabilities in the tens of millions of dollars. Our friends at the Digital Photography Review are reporting that among the co...

TDK Corporation announced today that it will begin sales in December 2008 of the CFG8A series of U.DMA 6-compatible CompactFlash (CF) cards and the SDG8A series of Parallel ATA (PATA) compatible solid state drives (SSD)for industrial applications with a maximum capacity of 16 GByte. These products include a robust error correction function scalable to 15 bit/sector ECC to provide high data reliability. Bit errors that can occur when reading data repeatedly and the risk of data loss from a power interruption when data is being written are minimized, making these high-reliability CF cards and SSDs optimal for industrial and embedded applications.

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Adobe Labs has pre-released Adobe® Configurator, an open source utility that enables the easy creation of panels (palletes) for use in Adobe Photoshop® CS4. Specifically, Configurator makes it easy to drag and drop tools, menu items, scripts, actions, and other objects into a panel design, then export the results for use inside Photoshop. These panels leverage the support for Adobe Flash® built into Photoshop, making it possible to drag and drop audio, video, images, and even other SWF files into a panel design.

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Embedding TDK GBDriver RA8 NAND controller makes possible high-speed, long-life, reliable CFG8A CompactFlash Cards and SDG8A series of HD-compatible Flash discs. November 17, 2008 - TDK Corporation announced today that it will begin sales in December 2008 of the CFG8A series of U.DMA 6-compatible CompactFlash (CF) cards and the SDG8A series of Parallel ATA (PATA) compatible solid state drives (SSD)for industrial applications with a maximum capacity...