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- Riya launches Like.com visual similarity shopping
- Riya’s facial search service was one of the first darlings of the Web 2.0 world. The company garnered more than $15 million in venture capital to make facial and object search as easy as text search. It turned out that searching by facial similarity was a nice bit of computer...
- Tags: General, Personal Technology, Web Technology, web2con, Like.com, Munjal Shah
- Blog posts 2006-11-08
- Riya unleashing API to integrate its visual search into apps
- Riya CEO Munjal Shah has been blogging about his company's shift in strategy, moving from a focus on face recognition to visual Web search (see also my post from May 16 and recent posts from Mike Arrington and Matt Marshall, among others). "The idea is to do similarity search globally,...
- Tags: Riya
- Blog posts 2006-06-16
- Riya heading into Web search
- Riya has been the darling of the Web 2.0 crowd, drawing kudos from every corner of the blogosphere. Riya's facial and text recognition technology is unique among all the photo uploading sites, but CEO Munjal Shah has bigger ambitions--searching across billions of publicly available images. ...
- Tags: Riya, photograph, Munjal Shah
- Blog posts 2006-05-16
- Revenge of the long tail
- Munjal Shah of Riya, a startup photo sharing service that applies face and text recognition to find images, is among many Web 2.0 companies in search of revenue generation models. He has an interesting way of expressing the revenue share idea, calling it the "revenge of the long tail." Speaking...
- Tags: Riya, Munjal Shah
- Blog posts 2005-12-06
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- SOA: it's only rocket science
- What can go wrong with SOA? Let me count the ways. Better yet, Miko Matsumura, Bjoern Brauel, and Jignesh Shah, all with SoftwareAG, have done the counting for us, in a new book that shows how to overcome various SOA issues, called "SOA Adoption for Dummies." (Available...
- Tags: SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2008-11-19
- TechCrunch50: Day 3
- Photo by Steve Maller I've been covering TC50 for the past few days, and believe it or not, I'm still hungry for more startup pitches. 6:30 a.m. The final sessions of the conference are posted on BusinessWire: s Akoha...
- Tags: Hollywood, YouTube Inc., Video, Photograph, Bojam, Truecar, Playce, Panelist, Corporate Communications, Games, Marketing, Personal Technology, Andrew Mager
- Blog posts 2008-09-10
- A peek into Silicon Valley and beyond . . .
- I enjoy being a journalist and reporting on the business and culture of Silicon Valley. Most of my reporting is done the traditional way, with a notepad and pencil. Increasingly journalists have to do more, carry a camera, do podcasts, run video. Software engineers have to...
- Tags: Silicon Valley, Tom Foremski, Journalist, Video, Corporate Communications, Marketing
- Blog posts 2008-08-26
- Will social networking on mobile devices take off?
- At the AlwaysOn Summit at Stanford University, moderator Adam Zawel of INmobile.org leads a discussion on mobile social networking. He asks the panel if the trend will be slow to progress in the United States versus other parts of the world. Panelists include Mauro del Rio of Buongiorno, Babur Ozden...
- Tags: Mobile, Network, Mobile Device, Social Networking, Advertising & Promotion, Online Communications, Marketing
- Videos 2008-07-28
- E-Loan CIO: IT survival strategies
- Jay Shah, CIO of E-Loan explains how the company is responding to the troubled mortgage industry by focusing on costs savings and the development of new financial products.
- Tags: CIO, Financial, E-Loan, Information Technology, Financial Accounting, Strategy, Finance, Management
- Videos 2008-06-27
- Debut of Hyper-V, departure of Gates usher in new era for Microsoft
- Debut of Hyper-V, departure of Gates usher in new era for MicrosoftNot even Bill gates is happy with MicrosoftStrange that you should incessantly spin them as compelling..... or are you being adequately compensated (free money, not software)?Bill Gates Sends Angry Email to Microsoft http://www.lockergnome.com/digged/2008/06/25/bill-gates-sends-angry-email-to-microsoft/Wednesday, June 25th,...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, E-mail, Virtualization, cloud computing, Microsoft Corp., Hyper-V
- Discussion threads 2008-06-27
- Microsoft's geeks might miss Gates the most
- Microsoft's geeks might miss Gates the mostBrilliance = Techie + Financial ManagerialI think one of the reasons Microsoft has been so succesful is that Bill Gates was adept not necessarily the best at both spectrums: the techie and the business side. Witness General Motors under the "Smith" bean counter tenure:...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Recruitment & Selection, Mergers & Acquisitions, Microsoft Corp., Bill Gates
- Discussion threads 2008-06-26
- News to know: Nokia Symbian; XP phase-out; Apple badware
- Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: No reprieve: XP phase-out begins June 30 Dancho Danchev: Trojan exploiting unpatched Mac OS X vulnerability in the wild Spam attack shut downs Marshall Islands email service 200,000 sites spreading web malware, China's...
- Tags: Nokia Corp., Microsoft Windows XP, Apple Inc., Symbian Inc., Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), E-mail, Virtualization, Microsoft Windows, Leadership, Advertising & Promotion, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Online Communications, Hardware, Operating Systems, Management, Marketing, David Grober
- Blog posts 2008-06-25
- Securing data at E-Loan
- Jay Shah, CIO of E-Loan describes the company's security and privacy model which gives more choice to customers about how information is shared with third party vendors. by Andrew Mager
- Tags: E-Loan, Security, Andrew Mager
- Blog posts 2008-06-24
- Using Web 2.0 to develop new loans
- Jay Shah, CIO of E-Loan talks about taking mortgage products to market in a matter of weeks using Web 2.0 tools that foster collaboration and help speed up product cycles. by Andrew Mager
- Tags: Web, Web 2.0, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing, Andrew Mager
- Blog posts 2008-06-24
- IT survival strategies
- Jay Shah, CIO of E-Loan explains how the company is responding to the troubled mortgage industry by focusing on costs savings and the development of new financial products. by Andrew Mager
- Tags: Financial, Information Technology, Financial Accounting, Strategy, Finance, Management, Andrew Mager
- Blog posts 2008-06-24
- E-Loan CIO: Jay Shah
- Jay Shah, CIO of internet financial services provider E-Loan, talks to CNET News.com's Dan Farber about surviving a housing downturn by creating new compliant and certified mortgage products for its customers. He also discusses how the company is able to shorten the typical software cycle and develop financial solutions more...
- Tags: CIO, E-Loan, Web 2.0, Internet, Groupware, Financial Accounting, Financial Planning, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Andrew Mager
- Blog posts 2008-06-24
- Integrated health management
- Eighteen luminaries (including Google co-founder Larry Page) recently developed a list of 14 Grand Engineering Challenges which they consider "essential for humanity to flourish." A couple of the challenges seem a bit...odd (Enhance Virtual Reality, Reverse Engineer the Brain), but one stands out from the rest (at least, for the...
- Tags: Insurance Company, Health Care, Insurance, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Ed Gottsman
- Blog posts 2008-04-10
- McAfee: Trojan targets Windows Mobile
- McAfee has unearthed a Windows Mobile PocketPC Trojan that disables security, installs via a memory card, can't be uninstalled and makes itself your home page. According McAfee's Avert Labs blog, the Trojan has been discovered in China. Here's how it works according to researcher Jimmy Shah: ...
- Tags: McAfee Inc., Microsoft Windows Mobile, Memory Card, Mobile, Trojan Horse, Microsoft Windows, Shah, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Spyware, Viruses And Worms, Security, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-02-26
- Use your cellphone as a 3-D mouse
- In recent years, we've started to use our cellphones not only for placing calls or exchanging messages. Now, we take pictures, read our e-mails, listen to music or watch TV. But, according to New Scientist, UK researchers are going further with a prototype software that turns your cellphone into a...
- Tags: 3D, Phone, Researcher, Mouse, Cell Phone, Computer, Nick Pears, Telecom & Utilities, Mice, Productivity, Hardware, Peripherals, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-01-19
- Asus GeForce 8800 GT (PCI-e, 512MB, 1.8GHz Clock)
- The Asus EN8800GT is the first card we've reviewed with Nvidia's new GeForce 8800 GT graphics chip. You should be able to find this card for just under $300 or so online, which puts its real world price a bit higher than Nvidia's suggested price of about $250. With its...
- Tags: Semiconductors, ASUS, NVidia Corp., Nvidia GeForce, ATI Technologies Inc., GeForce 8800 GT
- Product reviews 2007-12-17
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