Alex Welch, chief executive of image-sharing site Photobucket, says the problem may simply be the complexity of the objects cluttering up each individual page.
"Our view is that 100percentt of sales in North America will be on the Internet in three years, and we don't need a major technology invention to make it happen," said Jonathan Klein, chief executive of Getty Images, and the person generally credited with establishing Getty Images' early lead.
His father, a radiologist, is the chief executive of Baltimore Imaging Centers, a group which operates 10 radiology and imaging centers in Maryland.
Mr. Copple, chief executive of Space Imaging, said that its focus was increasingly on selling an analysis based on the images.
"When we began, stock photography or licensed images, preshot images being licensed, was perceived as the armpit of the photo industry," said Jonathan Klein, the chief executive of Getty Images who helped found the agency in 1995.
"I believe the holdouts will be paying within 12 months," said Michelle Boston, the chief executive of Partners Imaging, a Dallas company that works with doctors to offer CT scans.
"Defense satellites are optimized for coverage of high-risk areas, but they don't always cover every region where problems come up," said Gilbert D. Rye, president and chief executive of the Orbital Imaging Corporation, another satellite photography company.
Managing during times like this "is not something you can learn from one downturn to the next," said Guy Gecht, the 36-year-old chief executive of Electronics for Imaging, a Foster City, Calif., company that makes devices for printers.
In a conference call, Guy Gecht, the chief executive of Electronics for Imaging, described PrintMe as "a whole new way to think about printing" and said the system would have the speed of a fax machine with the quality and security of traditional printed documents.
The chief executive of Computerized Thermal Imaging Inc., Richard V. Secord, a former Air Force general and Iran-contra defendant, is under investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Justice Department for possible illegal insider trading, the company said in its annual report, which was filed this week.
The fears that surround public speaking tend to fall into a few categories, said Linda Blackman, founder of Executive Image, a Chicago-based company that helps people make presentations.
