Pictures and Voice Brought Together by Skype, Kodak
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I had just finished talking with a friend in South Africa about Skype - she uses it to stay in touch with her daughter in California - when I opened an email from a friend who forwarded the article below. The partnership mentioned is just the sort of thing that my South African friend and her daughter will delight in using.
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Kodak and Skype Give a New Voice to Online Storytelling with KODAK
Photo Voice
LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 3, 2006--
Kodak Launches the First Skype-Certified Online
Photo-Sharing Experience, Helping People Talk Live to Friends, Family and
Colleagues around the World While Viewing a Shared Photo Album
Eastman Kodak Company and Skype(TM), the global Internet
communications company, announce the availability of the latest innovation
in digital storytelling - KODAK Photo Voice - that combines live voice and
online photo sharing. The beta version of KODAK Photo Voice, the first Skype
certified online photo sharing experience, is now available as a free
download at www.kodakgallery.com/photovoice.
"Today's families and social networks are scattered around the
globe. Staying connected through photo sharing remains an important element
in maintaining closer personal relationships," said Sandra Morris, general
manager of Consumer Imaging Services at Kodak. "Traditional social
gatherings that once took place around the radio, television or telephone
are now happening around the computer, mobile phone or camera. KODAK Photo
Voice marks the next step in this evolution."
KODAK Photo Voice is a brand new way to relive memories, empowering
two people to simultaneously view a customized slideshow, and to reminisce
and react to each picture. Imagine if Grandma could see pictures from her
grandson's first day at school while he narrates every moment of the
experience over Skype. Perhaps an old roommate could share detailed photos
and recount stories of his new life in London, as his friend back home in
California reacts to each picture.
"Our goal is to make technology easy to use and Skype is a simple
Internet communications service that is changing the way people stay in
touch," said James Bilefield, vice president of business development for
Skype. "The combination of Skype's service and KODAK EASYSHARE Gallery's
photo sharing capabilities will make sharing memories even more simple and
rewarding for consumers around the globe."
After downloading KODAK Photo Voice and Skype, the host selects
pictures from a KODAK EASYSHARE Gallery album or from their computer,
quickly and easily compiles them into a KODAK Photo Voice presentation and
"calls" a friend via Skype to watch the slideshow live. Hosts submit orders
for prints and other merchandise that guests select through KODAK EASYSHARE
Gallery and have them mailed directly to the guest's home.
About Eastman Kodak Company
Kodak is the leader in helping people take, share, print and view
images - for memories, for information, for business, and for entertainment.
With sales of $13.5 billion in 2004, the company is committed to a digitally
oriented growth strategy focused on four businesses: Digital & Film
Imaging Systems - providing consumers, professionals and cinematographers
with digital and traditional products and services; Health - supplying the
medical and dental professions with traditional and digital imaging and
information systems, IT solutions and services; Graphic Communications -
providing customers with a range of solutions for prepress, traditional and
digital printing, and document scanning and multi-vendor IT services; and
Display & Components - supplying original equipment manufacturers with
imaging sensors as well as intellectual property and materials for the
organic light-emitting diode (OLED) and LCD display industries. More
information about Kodak (NYSE:EK) is available at www.kodak.com.
About Skype
Skype is the world's fastest-growing service for Internet
communication, allowing people everywhere to make unlimited voice and video
calls for free. Skype is available in 27 languages and is used in almost
every country around the world. Skype generates revenue through its premium
service offerings such as making and receiving calls to and from landline
and mobile phones, as well as voicemail and call forwarding services. Skype
also has a growing network of hardware and software partners. Skype is an
eBay company (NASDAQ:EBAY). To learn more visit www.skype.com.
Kodak and EasyShare are trademarks of Eastman Kodak Company. Skype
is not a telephony replacement service and cannot be used for emergency
calling.
Contacts
Kodak
Liz Scanlon, 510-295-7542
liz@kodakgallery.com
or
Ketchum for Kodak
Jodi Sacks, 404-879-9140
jodi.sacks@ketchum.com
or
Sparkpr for Skype
Alicia diVittorio, 415-321-1875
alicia@sparkpr.com
© Business Wire 2006
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Jenny
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