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Non-Tech : Any info about Iomega (IOM)? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Teddy who wrote (36759)	11/20/1997 9:22:00 PM
From: gmccon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 58324

Looks like "Clik" will have application here, big time: ******************************************************************* Digital Imaging Market Takes Off (11/20/97; 3:00 p.m. EST) By Karen M. Carrillo, InformationWeek Low prices are driving a surge in consumer demand for digital-imaging equipment. Sales of scanners, digital cameras, and related digital-imaging products hit three million units last year and are projected to grow by 55 percent per year and pass 26 million by 2001, according to InfoTrends Research Group. "Digital images are proliferating on the desktop and becoming as common as text," says Kristy Holch, a principal with InfoTrends, a market researcher in Kansas City, Mo. Adobe, Caere, Intel, Microsoft, and Xerox subsidiary ScanSoft were among vendors touting their latest imaging products at a Comdex/Fall press event hosted by InfoTrends. Revenue from digital imaging products is growing at 23 percent per year, from $1.02 billion last year to a projected $2.87 billion in 2001, Holch says. Scanner units are growing 25 percent annually and are projected to reach 7.4 million units in 2001, with revenue growing 9 percent to reach $1.3 billion, according to InfoTrends. Digital camera unit shipments, both tethered and portable, are expected to grow at 103 percent annually from 1996 to 2001, reaching 19 million. Revenue for digital cameras is forecast to grow 70 percent per year from 1996 to 2001, to $1.6 billion in 2001. In 1997, about 40 percent of scanner sales were to consumers, while 34 percent of digital cameras were purchased for personal use. About half of digital cameras are used at home or in home offices. ******************************************************************* Greg