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Faces Wild 1.01 (Mobile)

Choose a scene from categories like art, celebrities, sports, or animals, and align your face with the hole by pinching and dragging. Faces Wild comes bundled with dozens of scenes. Get a face from your Photo Library or camera, once the app knows where a face is, it automatically aligns...

Tags: Face, Mobile, Scene, Sam Williams

Software downloads 2009-05-25

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News to know: Bing-Twitter; Net Neutrality; eBay; VMWare; Nook; Win7

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Larry Dignan: Microsoft lands Facebook, Twitter deals for Bing Sam Diaz: Tweets on Bing: Watch out for more noise,...

Tags: Larry Dignan, Twitter Inc., Net Neutrality, VMware Inc., eBay Inc., Microsoft Windows 7, Software As A Service (SaaS), Podcasts, Microsoft Windows, Managed Hosting, Emerging Technologies, Internet, Operating Systems, Software, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-10-22

Web powerhouses to FCC: We support open Internet

The Internet's big guns have signed their names to a letter of support for a continued open Internet, sending it to the FCC this morning, just days before the agency is slated to vote on network neutrality rules. The letter is actually from the Open Internet Coalition,...

Tags: FCC, Google Inc., Web, Net Neutrality, Internet, Federal Government, Government, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-10-19

Twitter announces "significant" funding; offers few details

As expected, Twitter announced today that it had received "a significant round of funding with a group of investment firm" but offered few details beyond that. Earlier this week, reports in the Wall Street Journal and TechCrunch implied that the company was close to raising $100 million...

Tags: Twitter Inc., T. Rowe Price Group Inc., Investment Partner, Investment, Mutual Funds, Finance, Human Resources, Benefits, Retirement Plans, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-09-25

The good news about WalMart

The magic of jiu jitsuYou praise what a company reviled by the left is doing. The right rises. Then you point to WalMart's support of true health reform, and pound them with it. How does this help the public option?I don't see it.So you are saying that because of some...

Tags: Government, Vertical industries, Benefits, Wal-Mart Stores Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-09-07

News to know: SOA, Google Voice app; Twitter bots; Google Wave; Clunkers

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Joe McKendrick: More SOA tools emerge in the cloud Jason Hiner: Forget the iPhone app, Google Voice coming as...

Tags: Google Inc., Dana Blankenhorn, Jason Perlow, SOA, Microsoft Corp., Bot, Twitter, Attack, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), XML, Security, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-08-10

News to know: Google I/O; Zune HD; Bartz and Twitter at D7; Mac updates; AT&T's 3G

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Sam Diaz: Google I/O kicks off with bigger push into Android, Web apps and more Google: Programming for the...

Tags: Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Apple Macintosh, I/O, Microsoft Zune, AT&T Corp., Twitter, Sam Diaz, 3G, Wireless And Mobility, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Blog posts 2009-05-28

Twitter's big day: Revenue plan? Google deal? Oprah's touch?

Twitter co-founder Evan Williams sent out the cryptic tweet earlier today - and now, some tidbits of information have trickled out, giving us some things to ponder as it relates to this news. Of course, the big news would be a revenue model...

Tags: Revenue, Google Inc., Oprah Winfrey, Twitter, Operational Accounting, Finance, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-04-16

Cyber Monday traffic better than last year

If Web traffic translates into online sales, this year's holiday season is gearing up to much better than last year's - contrary to the doom-and-gloom forecasts for the holiday season. Traffic to online retail sites today - Cyber Monday - far exceeded last year's Cyber Monday traffic....

Tags: Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-12-01

New members join the APML Workgroup

Chris Saad pinged me the other to make the announcement that a number of new contributors have joined the APML Workgroup to assist in developing a standard for Attention data. As Chris wrote in his message, there is a undeniable need for a standard framework that gives us ownership and...

Tags: APML Workgroup, Attention Profiles

Blog posts 2007-03-22

Play it again Sam

A few weeks ago I was pinged by Sam Williams, who was writing a story on Attention for Technology Review. We had a nice chat, I asked him to let me know when it was published, and I forgot about it. Then the story came out and I once again...

Tags: Sam, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2006-05-02