Future Image, CTIA, Announce Mobile Imaging Perspectives at CTIA 2005

Seminar to Examine Challenges and Opportunities in the Camera-phone Ecosystem

SAN MATEO, Calif. ö November 2, 2004 -- Future Image Inc, producers of the acclaimed Mobile Imaging Summit executive conferences, and CTIA, the Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association ö announced today that Future Image will produce and host a one day seminar on Mobile Imaging at the CTIA WIRELESS 2005 event in New Orleans, LA. March 14-16, 2005. The seminar, entitled Mobile Imaging Perspectives, will focus on the opportunities and challenges emerging from the meteoric growth in sales of camera-enabled cell phones.

ãWe are pleased to be working with Future Image, an organization that clearly has its fingers on the pulse of this convergence of telecommunications and imaging technologies, as exhibited by their highly successful Mobile Imaging Summit conferences, and their exceptional record forecasting industry developments,ä said Robert B. Mesirow, CTIA Vice President of Operations. ãWe look forward to having them bring their mobile imaging expertise to our CTIA WIRELESS 2005 conference attendees.ä

ãCTIA is the preeminent wireless association and we are proud to have been selected by them to participate in their CTIA WIRELESS 2005 conference,ä said Alexis Gerard, president of Future Image. ãTheir participation in our recent Mobile Imaging Summit in Monterey as our Association Sponsor added a great deal of validation to the significant role that wireless technology is now playing in the imaging world. In fact, we have forecast that by 2005 camera-phones will outsell all other cameras excluding single-use devices.ä

Camera-phone sales have more than doubled every year since their introduction -- from fewer than a million in 2000 to 180 million this year. The increase last year was 350 percent. Japanese consumers bought 40 million camera-phones in 2003, up from about two million in 2001. Early studies indicate that camera-phone users take more than twice as many pictures as digital or film camera users.

At the Mobile Imaging Perspectives seminar Future Image will draw on its extensive research, and bring together a stellar lineup of industry leaders to provide insights into the new opportunities this explosion in mobile image capture is creating for Carriers, Wireless and Internet Service Providers, Application Developers, System Integrators and Resellers; as well as the challenges it raises for Technology Buyers and Enterprise End Users.

Future Image will also help coordinate a Wireless Imaging Pavilion on the show floor. The Wireless Imaging Pavilion will provide the latest innovations in wireless imaging technologies like Mobile Imaging Devices, Hardware and Software Enabling Technologies, Mobile Imaging Content, Self and Service Printing solutions, as well as non-Print solutions. If you are looking for the latest and most exciting imaging technologies to provide to your customers ö you canât miss this exhibit at CTIA WIRELESS I.T. & Entertainment 2005. Contact Stephanie McCall at smccall@ctia.org for more details.

About Future Image
Future Image Inc. is the leading independent center of expertise on the convergence of imaging, technology, and business, with primary emphasis on Mobile Imaging. It publishes two continuous information services, the Future Image Executive Information Service, and the Future Image Mobile Imaging Report (www.mobileimagingreport.com), as well as research studies on the impact of emerging imaging-focused technologies or business trends in three categories: Infrastructure, Appliances, and Services. Recent topics include: Print capabilities of Camera-Phones, Adoption of Consumer Kiosks and Print Services, and the Convergence of Still and Video Capture Devices. Future Image is the official information and research partner of the International Imaging Association (I3A), and the Managing Partner of the Visual Communication initiative, supported by Adobe Systems, Eastman Kodak, Epson, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, LightSurf, Microsoft, Nikon and Sprint. Founded in 1991, the company is headquartered in San Mateo (CA).

Future Imageâs limited-attendance executive conferences for decision makers are carefully designed across content, venue and amenities to maximize opportunities for participants to identify areas of mutual business advantage, and to make the high-level connections necessary for market leadership and competitive advantage. Sessions are conducted in an interactive format that promotes exchanges among participants both onstage and off. The world-famous Monterey Bay Aquarium is reserved in its entirety for a private dinner reception for attendees of the Monterey 2004 Summit. For more information please see www.mobileimagingsummit.com.

Mobile Imaging Report & Future Image Report
Attendees at the Mobile Imaging Summit conferences receive free subscriptions to the MIR and EIS continuous information services from Future Image to keep them abreast of industry developments between conferences. The MIR service provides a weekly collection of news stories and analysis, a database of over 3,500 archived stories, six in-depth reports each year on key issues in the industry, and private consultation with MIR's editor and lead analyst, Tony Henning.  For more information please visit www.mobileimagingreport.com or email Jbyrd@FutureImage.com.

CTIA WIRELESS I.T. & Entertainment 2004 is the fastest growing wireless Internet and mobile data show in the industry. This year, it will take place at Moscone West in San Francisco, California, from October 25-27. Register now to network with industry leaders, regulators, technologists, media and analysts at the one place that draws the best of wireless - CTIA WIRELESS I.T. & Entertainment 2004. For more information, including registration, travel, housing and session details, please visit our Web site at www.ctia.org.

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