San Francisco, CA, March 9, 2010—”WaterField Designs, a San Francisco manufacturer renowned for its high-quality, custom notebook sleeves, bags and cases for digital gear, introduces two cases for the Apple iPad: the sophisticated Smart Case and the super-thin iPad Slip Case. Both new cases offer protection for the iPad and come in six colors.”
The cases are protective travel cases as opposed to “play-through” cases and docks.
“Will the iPad Kill the Digital Photo Frame Category?” – This was the question asked in a Parks Associates blog entry in late January. Harry Wang’s insightful article suggests that players in today’s photo frame category may have an opportunity to learn from the iPad experience.
Much of the success of the iPad as a photo frame will be dependent upon the availability of stands and cradles which allow for a landscape orientation. The leading providers of iPod docks (Logitech, Bose, Belkin, Altec Lansing) will undoubtedly play in this new large iPad peripherals space. We’ll keep you updated on innovative docks and stands (which help turn the iPad into a picture frame) as they become announced and available.
This blog will look to be the authority on iPad docking stations and stands for selfish reasons. We believe that FrameChannel will be the perfect application to transform the iPad into a photo frame (a perfect information appliance screensaver experience). Stay tuned … and manufacturers of iPad peripherals please send your products our way and we’ll write about them!
Tonight at a gala reception in New York City, TiVo announced the launch of TiVo® Premiere and TiVo® Premiere XL boxes. “TiVo Premiere elegantly combines access to cable programming, movies, web videos, and music all in one box, and all at a truly affordable price.” In addition, TiVo announced a new partnership with FrameChannel:
“A new relationship with FrameChannel brings the best of the web directly to the TV offering users access to nearly 1,000 content widgets of personal and commercial content, ranging from Tweets, photos and status updates to news, weather, sports scores and stock quotes. FrameChannel acts as a personalized channel on your television, transforming your TV into a constant stream of real-time news and information with the content that matters to you most. “
Kristen Nicole wrote of the possibility of a TiVo – FrameChannel relationship back in late 2007 for Mashable. Good foresight Kristen.
More details available at: www.tivo.com and everywhere else!
Interesting and well-done review of the iGala photo frame on Indulge Blogger this morning.
Of course, interesting to us is the comparison between FrameChannel and FrameIt. Again, “our” read of the service comparison … the winner, FrameChannel. “The main difference between the two services is the scope of their image content collections.”
Our flagship product, FrameChannel, allows frame owners to program a unique stream of images that is updated dynamically, marrying their own photos with fresh content provided by FrameChannel and its partners.
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