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Qurio Home Photo Center Announces Qurio 1.2 with “Real Time Guest Stats” and New Holiday Photo Gifts
Cary, NC October 30, 2004 -- Qurio Home Photo Center, digital imaging software with the fastest photo sharing on the Internet, today announced the release of Qurio 1.2, with “Real Time Guest Stats,” and new photo gifts for the holidays. “Qurio is reinventing how people share and work with their digital pictures,” said Rick Thompson, Qurio VP Sales and Marketing. “Qurio 1.2, with ‘Real Time Guest Stats,’ is the next step in setting Qurio apart as the fastest, most exciting way to share digital pictures.”
For digital camera owners, the beauty of Qurio is instantly sharing thousands of pictures over the Internet, directly from the PC’s hard drive. Sharing pictures right off the hard drive means users maintain control over their pictures and can eliminate the need for bulky email attachments and time consuming uploads to web sites. Guests simply click on a link in an email and their browser instantly presents a slideshow. Now, with Qurio 1.2 and “Real Time Guest Stats,” Qurio users get real time updates on how many visitors they get, which albums and pictures are most popular, and when guests are visiting. And, because more people enjoy turning their pictures into fun photo gifts, Qurio is adding several new photo gifts for the holidays, including the $9.95 Qurio Mini Photo Book.
Qurio is addressing an important market trend. According to Jill Aldort, a digital imaging consultant at InfoTrends, “There are over 45 million digital camera owners in the U.S. This rapid shift to digital photography has created a new need for easily sharing photos over the Internet. In fact, photo sharing has become as important as getting quality digital prints. This means consumers are looking for faster ways to share high resolution pictures online and easier ways to get high quality digital prints.”
In addition to instant online sharing, Qurio Home Photo Center helps users edit and organize their pictures, get digital prints, and make photo gifts. This is because Qurio includes Qurio Photo Album, a complete suite of editing and organizing tools, and Qurio Print and Gift Maker, a set of desktop tools for ordering digital prints and creating photo gifts. With all of these tools built into one easy-to-use desktop application, Qurio is unlike any other single digital imaging software application or online photo service.
Just in time for the holidays, Qurio will be launching several new photo gifts to the existing product line. The featured new product is the Qurio Mini Photo Book, a 5 ½” square, 20-page, professionally bound, soft cover book that will retail for only $9.95. The Qurio Mini Book holds up to 100 pictures, presents captions on each page that tell a story, and takes about half an hour to make. This makes the Qurio Mini Photo Book a perfect gift for the holidays. Importantly, since Qurio puts the book making tools right on the PC, where the pictures are, making books is easier and faster with Qurio than with online photo sites that require time consuming uploads and album editing that is constrained by bandwidth.
Qurio is also adding new photo gifts that build off the existing photo books, greeting cards, and photo calendars. The new products include top sellers such as: puzzles, coffee mugs, playing cards, T-shirts, sweatshirts, and photo canvases to the product line. All of these photo gifts can be easily made using Qurio and ordered online. These new gift products will be launched in early December, just in time for the holidays.
To find out more about Qurio Home Photo Center, the innovative Qurio Instant Photo Server, and Qurio Prints and Photo Gifts, visit www.qurio.com.
A FREE Download of Qurio is available at www.qurio.com and at other download sites such as www.download.com and www.tucows.com.
About Qurio and FlashPoint
Qurio, a Division of FlashPoint Technologies, Inc., is focused on innovative products and technologies for Internet photo sharing. Founded in 1996, FlashPoint Technology, Inc. designs, develops and markets complete software solutions for digital photography and imaging devices. The company's Digita operating environment is licensed by leading manufacturers including Kodak, Sharp and Minolta.
