Today only Kodak is offering $100 off their newest wireless frame, the 8″ W820. We’ve written about this frame before and highly recommend it. FrameChannel is the primary content provider for this frame, which takes advantage of On Demand content, placing custom information such as news, weather, traffic, and much more directly at the customer’s fingertips.
Don’t miss your chance to get this frame at the bargain price of $119 (suggested retail price for this frame is $219).
Get your Kodak W820 frame now while supplies last!
Fotofix.com is a new online photo retouching service- giving everyone the ability to upload snapshots and, after a brief wait, receive retouched, magazine-quality photos. They offer world-class digital photo enhancement and correction that was, until now, available only to those with the skill or the money for professional retouching. Fotofix.com is working to change this, by removing barriers to easy, affordable photo editing.
Now anyone can enjoy the celebrity treatment, partaking of the airbrushing top models and stars take advantage of to improve and enhance their images. Fotofix.com provides high-quality digital enhancements like skin smoothing, blemish removal, body slimming, and tooth whitening. Colors become more vibrant and photo imperfections disappear. Best of all, it’s affordable.
A team of professionally trained photographers and artists work on the photos, ensuring the best quality available in photo retouching. Fotofix.com gives people the power to envision themselves with different hair or eye colors, relocated to new backgrounds or to have poor photo color rebalanced.
Though celebrities have traditionally paid top dollar for professional photo retouching, Fotofix.com believes that anyone should have access to the image-boosting difference that a few minor photo enhancements can make.
Fotofix.com is a quick, simple, and inexpensive way to turn ordinary photos into mini masterpieces.
New Funding Will Enhance Product Development and Expand Opportunity for the Fourth Screen in the Home
Frame Media today announced an award of an additional $3 million in funding co-led by Longworth Venture Partners and CommonAngels. Read the full release on Marketwire.
The percent of wireless frames on the market is expected to increase dramatically over the coming years. According to IDC, “The 2.8 million digital frames sold in 2006 are predicted to grow to 42.3 million units by 2011, and most of these frames will be Wi-Fi enabled.”
The additional funding will allow Frame Media to advance its position as the leading Web platform for management of content to wireless digital photo frames and other connected gadgets.
The full release is available on Marketwire.
We recently had the opportunity to sit down with Quanta Microsystems Inc. (QMI) to learn more about their plans in the wireless picture frame market. Founded in February 2006, QMI is a subsidiary of Quanta Computer, the world’s largest laptop OEM/ODM in Taiwan. QMI’s WiFi modules are already embedded in laptops, digital home devices (including WiFi digital photo frames), digital media adapters (DMA), IP set-top boxes, and WiFi routers.
QMI’s WiFi Digital Photo frame features an easy-to-operate connection in a wireless environment. Functionality includes; remote operation via personal computer, a user-friendly graphic interface, built-in speakers, remote control, alarm clock, and calendar. QMI currently offers an 8-inch model with a 4:3 aspect ratio and sharp LCD display. A 10-inch model will be available in the near future.
QMI’s WiFi digital photo frames are FrameChannel enabled, allowing them to function in concert with the FrameChannel service; updating RSS feeds dynamically in the background. The frame will clean out old images and reach out for new ones following the rules specified in the FrameChannel RSS feed, as well as honor specified order and time to live.
In addition to WiFi Digital Photo Frames, current QMI products include:
- WiFi 11 a/b/g, 11n, mini card / USB dongle & cardbus
- 11b/g and 11n SiP module
- 16e WiMAX CPE series
- UWB series
- High Definition IP-STB and Digital Media Adaptor
- Wireless router
For more information on QMI, please visit their website or contact them directly:
Quanta Microsystems Inc. - www.qmitw.com
Tel. +886 (3) 397 9000
Fax +886 (3) 397 9906
e-mail: adam.horng@qmitw.com
