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Object Recognition, The future of Google

Well, the post about Gmail avatars used for face recognition has a nice follow up from Google. They've acquired Neven Vision, a company specialized in image recognition.

"Neven Vision is changing the way we interact with the world by providing innovative applications for mobile devices based on image recognition technology.Neven Vision has developed a suite of mobile recognition technologies that enable images to become the interface to digital content—photos of advertisements become hyperlinks to branded content portals, while your camera phone can snap a picture of your face to secure verification of identity and control access to your private data. By equipping customers with an intuitive visual interface that anyone can use, this technology is unlocking vastly untapped market opportunities in Mobile Marketing and Commerce, Personal Security, and Biometric Identity Verification."
This technology will be used by Google to improve Picasa, by detecting and recognizing obects and persons in the picture. But the biggest challenge would be to integrate this into their image search engine and to create a mobile version for local search that will allow you to upload pictures and getinformation about the place / objects in the picture.
"Neven Vision comes to Google with deep technology and expertise around automatically extracting information from a photo. It could be as simple as detecting whether or not a photo contains a person, or, one day, as complex as recognizing people, places, and objects. This technology just may make it a loteasier for you to organize and find the photos you care about," says Picasa's product manager.
Neven Vision has one of the best face recognition software, but also a client for mobile phones that searches for relevant content related to an image. They also have the only face recognition software that runs on the microprocessors used in cell phones.
Now you see why Google acquired NevenVision, and not Riya?

Hackers post fake notice on Google Blog

A bug in Blogger enabled an unauthorized user to post a bogus notice on the Google Blog Saturday, claiming Google Inc. discontinued its AdWords click-to-call test with eBay Inc.
The bug was fixed and fake notice promptly removed from the site, according to a Google blog post that appeared late Sunday.The click-to-call test is "progressing on schedule, and we're pleased with the results thus far," the new post from Google reads. The fake post headline said "Google Click-to-Call project cancelled." The copy went on to explain: "Google has decided not to continue with Google Click-to-call project. The project has been in the media on last days because of the notice of Google agreement with eBay. We finally consider click-to-call agreement with eBay a monopolistic approach that would damage small companies in the CRM area."
Google began testing the service in November 2005, and later signed a multiyear contract with eBay for service
through its Internet telephony. Google and eBay in August unveiled a multiyear agreement that makes Google the exclusive provider of text-based advertising outside the United States, and extends both companies' Internet telephony services onto each other's platforms, Google Talk, and Skype Technologies SA., respectively.The fake Google post on Blogger also took one other shot at the search engine giant. It said: the "message has been translated using Google language tools."

Google, A Simple Mistake!

The name "Google"

The name "Google" is a misspelling on the word googol.

Milton Sirotta, nephew of U.S. mathematician Edward Kasner, made this word in 1938, for the number 1 followed by a hundred zeros. It is said that the word "googol" was chosen to represent this number because it sounded like baby talk. Google uses this word because the company wants to organize a very large quantity of information on the Web. Andy Bechtolsheim first thought of the name.

The name for Google's main office, the "Googleplex," is a play on a different, even bigger number, "googolplex," which is 1 with 1 googol zeros.

History

Google began as a research project in early 1996 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, two Ph.D. (smart) students at Leland Stanford University, USA. They made it into a company, Google Inc., on September 7, 1998 at a friend's garage in Menlo Park, California. In February 1999, the company went to 165 University Ave., Palo Alto, California. Then, later that year, it went to the "Googleplex".

In September 2001, Google's ranking system ("PageRank", for saying which information is more helpful) got a U.S. Patent. The patent was to Leland Stanford University, with Lawrence Page as the inventor (the person who first had the idea)

'Tower of Babel' technology nears

The problem of compatibility between wireless devices is being addressed at an international conference this week.
Scientists will be discussing what has been dubbed "Tower of Babel" technology - software that can converge different wireless gadgets into a single device.
The aim for Software Defined Radio (SDR) is to be able to translate and understand any kind of radio wave signal, such as 3G or wi-fi.
Researchers say SDR gadgets could become commonplace in five to 10 years.

With software defined radio all you need is one thing that can do the job of all of these devices
Francis Kinsella, EADS Astrium

Dr David Ndzi from the University of Portsmouth, where the International Conference on Telecommunications and Computers is being held, said: "SDR is what one could call a Tower of Babel-type technology, in that wireless devices that previously understood only one or a few languages, or standards, will suddenly be able to talk to each other freely regardless of frequency or conflicting protocols."
European space firm EADS-Astrium will be talking to delegates about its research in this emerging field.
Francis Kinsella, a specialist engineer from the company, said: "If you were to go on a hill-walking trip, you might have a walkie-talkie to talk to friends who are not far away, a mobile in case of emergency, GPS, a Bluetooth connection and even a laptop or PDA with a wireless LAN connection.
"Every single one of these things is a radio, and they are all slightly different. But in the future, with Software Defined Radio, all you need is one thing that can do the job of all of these devices."
Convergence

The idea behind SDR is that an aerial in the device picks up radio signals passing through the air waves.
An analogue-to-digital converter transforms this signal into a digital format, which can be understood and manipulated by software onboard the device.

Currently, most devices rely on hardware, rather than software, to get at the information in radio signals.
EADS-Astrium is about to launch its first SDR product, a piece of kit to be used by the military that can convert different kinds of signals, but Mr Kinsella said it was still an emerging technology.
He said two main limitations have held SDR back: the speed at which analogue-to-digital converters turn radio waves into numbers, and computer power.
"But," he said, "we have advances in both of those areas that could really mean an explosion in the next five to 10 years for SDR."
He said that the military had driven advances in the technology but the eventual benefits could be felt by consumers. The technology could even prove essential in emergency situations.
EADS-Astrium is currently working on a portable van, which has a satellite link, GSM, and wi-fi capabilities to be deployed during emergencies, such as in the aftermath of natural disasters. He said the ideal would be to add SDR to the van. The next stage, said Mr Kinsella, would be what is termed "cognitive radio", a technology that has the same capabilities as SDR but also searches for and exploits bandwidth that is not being used.