Phones snap up photo usage from cameras More than a quarter of all photos taken are now captured with a phone. The share of consumer photos captured in the U.S. taken on smartphones has grown to more than a quarter of all shots snapped, while the camera proportion has declined, reports market research company NPD Group. Here to tell us all about the Imaging Confluence Study is NPDs senior imaging analyst Liz Cutting.

The smart phone can do more than take photos -- it is also a connected computerized camera. These capabilites means it can see, unerstand, and communicate -- making it an ideal platform for reading printed codes and other visual cues, conencting to online data, and showing the cusomter more infomration.

Why did so many people cram into one room to participate in Session D32, Bill McCurry's DIMA Marketing Ideas Exchange? So they could get one or two or maybe 30 ideas that other people in their own industry. Ideas that have worked for someone else in the same business.. Listen in on the exchange of ideas on this weeks DIMAcast.

Join us as co-author Donna Fisher shares how to better balance your brain
for improved business communication. Fisher and Brain Gym Instructor Dr.
Jerry V. Teplitz produced the new book, "Switched-On Networking: Balance
Your Brain for Networking Success."