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Top Uses for Digital Picture Frames in Business

spmw15 Top Uses for Digital Picture Frames in BusinessDigital Picture Frames are a fast growing consumer electronic category! There’s no doubting the transition going on from traditional frames to digital photo frames. Quality of digital frames is improving and prices are coming down.

But have you noticed how digital picture frames are used in businesses? Much as flat-screen TVs are now heavily used by corporations, restaurants, hotels, and retailers, digital picture frames are as well. Here are some of the ways we’ve noticed business putting them to use. There are likely many others.

1. Reception desk welcome displays
2. Breakroom announcement portal
3. Restaurant “Specials of the Day” displays
4. Retail advertising portals
5. Conference room scheduling displays
6. Restaurant on-table menus, advertising, specials, etc., displays
7. As corporate gifts for customers or employees
8. Hotel announcements, meeting information, or concierge use
9. Airport and other transportation information portals
10. Photography, frameshop, and art gallery advertising displays

Have you noticed digital frames being used in business in other ways? Share your thoughts!

Picture Editing Software from ACD Systems Designed Specifically for Digital Picture Frame

acdsee logo1 Picture Editing Software from ACD Systems Designed Specifically for Digital Picture FrameDo you have issues or frustrations getting your digital pictures to display correctly on your digital picture frames? Or is the process of setting image resolution, format, and size a tedious one for those pictures you want to transfer to your digital frame? Well new picture editing software from ACD Systems has recently been release that is designed specifically to deal with these issues.

Most of our customers using our Smartparts, Portable USA, or Kodak digital picture frames have not reported any issues with the way their digital pictures display on their frames. But we've heard that as the number of digital photo frame manufacturers increases, and along with it the various resolutions, sizes, and supported formats, its not guaranteed that simply transferring photos from camera to computer to digital frame will mean it displays properly.
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Litigation Around Wireless Digital Frame Services Sorting Out

framechannel logo1 Litigation Around Wireless Digital Frame Services Sorting OutAs we've written many times on this blog, the future of digital picture frames is in wirelss technology. What makes digital frames so innovative is that you can constantly display fresh pictures, something impossible on a traditional frame, and wireless technology makes this even more possible. Wireless digital frames are also evolving into more than just picture frames, many now stream other types of media like news, weather, and anything else that can be sent via an RSS feed.

Ceiva was an early experimenter in providing a network sharing service with their digital frames, allowing a remote family member to send pictures to a digital frame. Recently, a company called Frame Media has developed a similar free service called "framechannel" that digital picture frames like Kodak can use to feed content to a frame using wireless technology. Last year Ceiva sued Frame Media for patent infringement claiming Frame Media had infringed on Ceiva's patent for distributing picture mail.

This week, Frame Media seemed to get some good neews in its favor.
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