Future Image Inc

Future Image Inc., is the leading publisher of business-to-business information and analysis for the digital photo imaging industry. Founded in 1991, the company is headquartered in San Mateo (CA), in close proximity to Silicon Valley and San Francisco's "Multimedia Gulch."

Its flagship publication, The Future Image Report, is read by business leaders in over fifty countries worldwide. It features trends analysis, market research and exclusive interviews. The companion FIR Weekly Digital Imaging Briefing, delivered by email, covers key news in Internet imaging, digital cameras, digital camera architectures and components and visual asset management.

Future Image also publishes primary research on emerging trends in digital imaging, with primary emphasis on Internet imaging and digital cameras. These include Worth 1,000 URL's-Visual Strategies for eCommerce, Protecting Visual Assets on the Internet: Turning Pictures into Profits and Web Photo Sharing and Photofinishing 2000.

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LOCATION-AWARE IMAGES: Using Smart-Phone Capabilities to Automate Rich Metadata
8/1/2007 | published by: Future Image Inc
... image. The camera-phone has significant potential as an intelligent imaging device, one that leverages its smart capabilities — calendar, address book, GPS and more — to annotate the pictures and videos it takes with highly ...  |  more...
$2,000.00
User-generated Visual Content: Understanding The Supply-Side Motivations
5/1/2007 | published by: Future Image Inc
... the more common viewers. “User-generated Visual Content: - Understanding The Supply-Side Motivations” surveys hundreds of popular content creators and analyzes their reasons, compared and contrasted against a control group of average Web users. The findings ...  |  more...
$2,000.00
Reinventing The Lens: Next-Gen Focus & Zoom Technology
2/1/2007 | published by: Future Image Inc
... phone industry, with its huge demand for embedded cameras, is driving a broad set of new requirements for miniaturized, rugged, low-cost, low-power, high-performance lens and actuator combinations. As they come to market, the superior value ...  |  more...
$2,000.00
Reinventing the Lens: Software-Enhanced Optics
10/1/2006 | published by: Future Image Inc
... phone industry, with its huge demand for embedded cameras, is driving a broad set of new requirements for miniaturized, rugged, low-cost, low-power, high-performance lenses. As they come to market, the superior value proposition of those ...  |  more...
$2,000.00
Key Wireless Terms for Imaging Executives
6/1/2006 | published by: Future Image Inc
... Image’s Mobile Imaging Glossary, consists of approximately 175 terms selected to help imaging industry executives, who are already familiar with imaging terminology and concepts, understand the brands, buzzwords, and tribal language of the wireless industry.  |  more...
$85.00
The Language of Mobile Imaging: A Glossary of 1,405 Technical & Business Terms
4/1/2006 | published by: Future Image Inc
... This unique resource contains more than 112,000 words explaining terms from wireless technology —personal, local, metro, and wide area network technologies, standards, and modulation schemes; from computer programming and information interchange standards; and from digital ...  |  more...
$2,000.00
Mobile Imaging and the Future of Bandwidth: The Battle for Network Control
1/1/2006 | published by: Future Image Inc
... takes more than a minute and sometimes as long as three minutes to share an image, users think twice before they hit the Send button. Therefore lack of bandwidth is a critical inhibitor to the ...  |  more...
$2,000.00
Digital SLRs and the High-end Camera Market
10/18/2005 | published by: Future Image Inc
... comes to camera-phones other devices - what will remain the defining characteristics of a standalone camera? If a phone captures adequate pictures - when would anyone carry around a larger single-function camera? What would motivate ...  |  more...
$1,495.00
Megapixel Camera-Phones North America - A Comparative Overview
5/1/2005 | published by: Future Image Inc
... the minute reference information on the imaging capabilities of all camera-phones with megapixel or greater resolution currently for sale in North America, or announced for sale in the near term. To illustrate how the MMM ...  |  more...
$2,000.00
Turning Push Into Pull - Driving Clicks and Prints from Camera-Phones
3/1/2005 | published by: Future Image Inc
... America (October 28 & 29, 2004) focused on what's necessary to switch the growth engine to customer Pull in order to grow the Mobile Imaging 'pie' for all concerned. Generating downstream revenues from images captured ...  |  more...
$2,000.00
Sending Photos Phone to Phone: Challenges & Opportunities
11/1/2004 | published by: Future Image Inc
... and some have to do with the service providers - they need to simplify and reduce picture-messaging charges and they need to let us exchange pictures with anybody we want to, in particular with any ...  |  more...
$2,000.00
Digital Cameras: Strategies to Reach the Late Majority
2/1/2004 | published by: Future Image Inc
... approaches of five companies who have taken the early lead, each with different business goals and tactics: HP, Kodak, Pure Digital, Sound Vision and Sprint. The report includes: - A roundtable discussion in which senior ...  |  more...
$1,495.00
Kiosks and Print Services for Consumer Digital Photography
1/1/2004 | published by: Future Image Inc
... early digital camera adopters. But the outcome is hardly assured. - Are these offerings compelling enough in terms of price, quality and convenience? - Is the industry moving fast enough to deploy and generate awareness? ...  |  more...
$1,495.00
Still and Video Camera Convergence
1/1/2004 | published by: Future Image Inc
... the feature was little more than a novelty. The latest digital still cameras by contrast record TV-quality video — full-screen and 30 frames per second, up to the capacity of the storage card. What does ...  |  more...
$1,495.00
Wireless and Mobile Imaging - The State of the Industry
1/1/2004 | published by: Future Image Inc
... Monterey Plaza Hotel and Spa for a day and a half of high-level brainstorming and networking hosted by Future Image and the International Imaging Industry Association. This report provides a comprehensive briefing on the opinions ...  |  more...
$149.00
4 x 6 Shoot-Out: Are Camera-Phones Ready To Make Consumer Prints?
1/1/2004 | published by: Future Image Inc
... the question: Why buy a digital camera? The purpose of this study, including 119 figures, charts, and tables, was to determine if currently available camera-phones are capable of delivering acceptable consumer prints and to assess ...  |  more...
$2,000.00
Photoblogs - The New Paradigm for Photo Sharing
9/1/2003 | published by: Future Image Inc
... of 2003. Based on extensive research of blogging and photoblogging services, technologies and applications, the report examines how photoblogs are changing the way digital photos are used and shared on the web, the role of ...  |  more...
$795.00
Will Camera-Phones Replace Digital Cameras?
9/1/2003 | published by: Future Image Inc
... cameras are inexorably trending downward. Now the recent release of megapixel camera-phones by all three Japanese wireless carriers raises the question: Are camera-phones getting good enough to take significant market share from digital cameras? The ...  |  more...
$2,000.00
Integrated Electronic Personal Photo Sharing - The Future of Consumer Photography
3/1/2003 | published by: Future Image Inc
... requirements for each. A review of the performance and connectivity issues related to the display of digital images for Analog CRT Televisions, Digital CRT Televisions, LCD Televisions and HDTV Televisions. An examination of current offerings ...  |  more...
$1,795.00
The Camera-phone Phenomenon - A 'New Deal' in Imaging
3/1/2003 | published by: Future Image Inc
... behind. It further states that the challenges to mass-market adoption of camera-phones in the U.S. - both business and technical - will be met within the next 12 months, noting that carriers such as Sprint, ...  |  more...
$1,450.00
CPXe - Reshaping Photofinishing through Web Services
3/1/2003 | published by: Future Image Inc
... includes: An evaluation of the Web Services framework as a foundation for CPXe A discussion of the strengths and weaknesses of CPXe Release 1 An analysis of the drivers and inhibitors to end-user adoption of ...  |  more...
$1,795.00
Image Servers - Vendor Competitive Evaluation Profile: Equilibrium Technologies, Inc.
6/1/2002 | published by: Future Image Inc
... trust that the desktop product has earned over the years. Equilibrium is gaining momentum with scaleable, extensible technology deployed using a scaleable, extensible business model. This report provides an in-depth profile of the company with ...  |  more...
$495.00
Digital Cameras: The Battle for the Emerging Consumer Market
6/1/2002 | published by: Future Image Inc
... camera users. Extensive interviews with the management of the eight primary players in the market: Canon, Fuji, HP, Kodak, Minolta, Nikon, Olympus, Sony. Independent testing and reviews of the product lines of each of these ...  |  more...
$499.00
Image Servers - Vendor Competitive Evaluation Profile: ACD Systems Ltd.
5/1/2002 | published by: Future Image Inc
... its imaging expertise to help photo retailers hang onto their customers. This report provides an in-depth profile of the company with particular emphasis on ImageShark and other server initiatives. Company information is organized into the ...  |  more...
$495.00
Image Servers - Vendor Competitive Evaluation Profile: LizardTech, Inc.
4/1/2002 | published by: Future Image Inc
... of solid technology. This report provides an in-depth profile of the company with particular emphasis on Content Server. Company information is organized into the following sections: Introduction, Vision, History, Funding, Management, Current Structure, Business Model, ...  |  more...
$495.00
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