Club Photo Aligns with PalmGear H.Q. to Offer Internet Photo Sharing Capabilities to Palm Organizer Users.SAN JOSE San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 30, 1999-- Industry's first complete online photo sharing Photo sharing is the publishing or transfer of a user's digital photos online, thus enabling the user to share them with others (whether publicly or privately). This functionality is provided through both websites and applications that facilitate the upload and display of images. and finishing solution now enables portable sharing from Palm Connected Organizers Club Photo(TM), creator of Living Album 99(TM) and a leader of integrated photo sharing and finishing over the Internet, has allied with PalmGear H.Q.(TM), the one stop source for PalmOS(TM) software and accessories, to create the first solution for online and portable photo sharing for users of Palm Connected Organizers(TM). The agreement provides PalmGear H.Q. customers with the ability and infrastructure to create and share entire photo albums with friends and family around the world using Palm Connected Organizers and the Club Photo/PalmGear online photo sharing community. The PalmGear H.Q./Club Photo site (http://palmgear.clubphoto.com) provides PalmOS device users with a personal photo sharing Web site, Living Album photo management software for the desktop, and Album To Go photo sharing software that supports the complete line of PalmOS devices, all free of charge. This unprecedented alliance changes the face of photography and photo sharing throughout the broad-based Palm Connected Organizer community. It is the first time that a true photo sharing and finishing company, Club Photo, has linked itself to a true PDA (Personal Digital Assistant) A handheld computer for managing contacts, appointments and tasks. It typically includes a name and address database, calendar, to-do list and note taker, which are the functions in a personal information manager (see PIM). solutions provider, PalmGear H.Q. The result of this partnership will give PalmGear H.Q. customers access to the world's first photo Album To Go, global photo sharing, and finishing services. "For the first time, the collaborative efforts of PalmGear H.Q. and Club Photo have integrated the entire process of photo sharing, ordering, and photo-finishing, to extend the entire experience to the Palm Computing(R) platform community," said Andrew Wei, president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Club Photo Inc. "Our unified vision will transform today's cumbersome print-first, share-later model into a fully contained online photo/Palm Computing community. This will completely change the value proposition of PalmOS devices as we know it today." "By extending Club Photo's photo sharing and finishing model to the Palm Computing Platform See platform. , we are opening a new market opportunity for PalmOS devices to a whole new group of consumer-oriented users," said J.D. Crouch, chief marketing officer at PalmGear H.Q. "Now professionals, moms, kids and grandparents grandparents npl → abuelos mpl grandparents grand npl → grands-parents mpl grandparents grand npl alike can use PalmOS organizers as a way to share photographs. We see our partnership with Club Photo as a seamless progression of offering more value to our extensive and evolving community of PalmOS device enthusiasts." The PalmGear/Club Photo H.Q. Advantage The site will provide full customer service beginning today at http:/palmgear.clubphoto.com. Using Club Photo's Album To Go photo sharing software, the online Album Manager, or the award-winning Living Album, PalmGear H.Q. users will have the opportunity to arrange, organize, and share all of their favorite photographs at the PalmGear H.Q./Club Photo site on the World Wide Web. Club Photo automates the entire sharing process by automatically transforming the organized album into a photo web page and uploading the entire photo album onto the member's personal photo Web site with just a couple clicks of the mouse. Users can then invite friends, family and associates from around the globe to share the photo experience, order reprints, and order specialized photo-based gifting items like mugs, mouse pads A fabric-covered rubber pad roughly 9" square that provides a smooth surface for rolling a mouse. There are also mouse pads that provide a better surface; for example, 3M makes the Precise Mousing Surface, an ultra-thin mouse pad that is engineered to reduce friction. , cookies, and the like. Album To Go Club Photo continues to redefine photography with the introduction of Album To Go, the world's first interactive hand-held photo album solution for Palm(TM) Connected Organizers. Album To Go enables Palm device users to download photos from their Club Photo online albums or drag-and-drop pictures directly from their computers, using Album To Go Desktop, to create portable digital albums. At the next HotSync operation, the pictures are then transferred into the Palm device and displayed immediately, in 16-bit or 4-bit grayscale In computing, a grayscale or greyscale digital image is an image in which the value of each pixel is a single sample. Displayed images of this sort are typically composed of shades of gray, varying from black at the weakest intensity to white at the strongest, though in , to family, friends and co-workers. Palm device users can also download photos shared by friends, family, and associates from their Club Photo site by simply clicking on the desired photo. Once in the Palm device, the images can be beamed to other devices for easy sharing of photos globally and portably. The photos can be viewed one at a time or shown as a slide show with built-in special effects special effects, in motion pictures, cinematographic techniques that create illusions in the audience's minds as well as the illusions created using these techniques. . About PalmGear H.Q. PalmGear H.Q. (http://www.palmgear.com), a privately owned company, is the leading Internet source for Palm OS(R) software, hardware, accessories, news, and information. PalmGear H.Q. is an award winning web portal See portal. and e-commerce site, having collected awards from or been featured in PC Magazine (www.pcmagazine.com), ZDNet (www.zdnet.com), Netscape (www.netscape.com), Yahoo! (www.yahoo.com), Wired Magazine (www.wired.com) and many others. PalmGear H.Q. provides the web's most successful portal for bringing shareware Software on the "honor system." The concept is that users try a product, and if they like it, they voluntarily pay a set registration fee or make a donation to the program's creator. There are tens of thousands of shareware programs; some fantastic, some awful. developers and users together to promote the Palm OS(TM) community. PalmGear H.Q. is a development partner of Palm Computing, a division of 3COM Corporation (Nasdaq:COMS COMS 3Com Corporation (stock symbol) COMS Certified Orientation and Mobility Specialist COMS Continuous Opacity Monitoring Systems COMS City of Manchester Stadium (UK) ), and markets its own line of accessories and software for the PalmOS platform. PalmGear H.Q. is located at 2500 Randol Mill Road, Arlington, Texas Arlington is a city in Tarrant County, Texas (USA) within the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington metropolitan area. According to a U.S Census Bureau release, as of July 1, 2006 Arlington has an estimated population of 367,197. and can be reached at (817) 640-6558 or http://www.palmgear.com About Club Photo Club Photo is the venture-funded leader of online photo sharing and finishing. It delivers award-winning digital photo organizing, sharing and personalized per·son·al·ize tr.v. per·son·al·ized, per·son·al·iz·ing, per·son·al·iz·es 1. To take (a general remark or characterization) in a personal manner. 2. To attribute human or personal qualities to; personify. finishing solutions with its Living Album software, Album To Go software, and Club Photo Network. It provides intuitive, easy, and powerful tools to make it possible for casual and professional photographers to create, organize, archive, or share memorable images. The company now extends the photo sharing experience to the PalmOS community to share pictures directly from Palm Computing platform products. Personalized finished product or gift offerings can be purchased online. Club Photo is located at 650 Saratoga Avenue, San Jose, California San Jose (IPA: /ˌsænhoʊˈzeɪ/) is the third-largest city in California, and the tenth-largest in the United States. It is the county seat of Santa Clara County. and can be reached at 408-557-6845 or http://www.clubphoto.com. Note to Editors: 3Com, Graffiti, HotSync, and Palm Computing are registered trademarks of Palm Computing, Inc., 3Com Corporation or its subsidiaries. Palm III The Palm III was the first PDA in the Palm III lineup and is also Palm Computing's first handheld to support infrared file transfer and a Flash ROM capable operating system. The first Palm IIIs went on sale in 1998. , PalmOS, and PalmPilot are trademarks of 3Com Corporation or its subsidiaries. |
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