Gizmo Ave

Recognizr – Facial Recognition

Now you can check if people are on facebook or other social network. by just using their picture on your phone. (more…)

AskGoogle Aardvark, samething

Google recently bought a company called Aadvark. I was wondering what it was all about and finally found Aadvark listed as a part of Google Labs. It has a simple system. Ask a question and someone will answer the question. Aardvark will fit someone who will answer the question. It also means with Aardvark you can answer some of the questions people are asking.
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Facebook Lagging Problems

NEW YORK— Facebook users have been complaining about problems at the social media site. Users in the United States and other countries reported problems lasting at least half an hour Saturday morning. Some could not log in, and the site was unusually slow for others. Many used Twitter to complain. Facebook, which has more than 400 million users, has generally avoided such hiccups. (more…)

Facbook Zero

The world’s biggest social network has revealed details of a stripped-down, text-only version of its mobile site called Facebook Zero. The low-bandwidth site is aimed at people viewing Facebook on their mobile and will launch “in the coming weeks”. The social network recently said that more than 100 million people now access Facebook from their phone. Analysts at CCS Insight said that the new site could help operators free-up critical bandwidth on their networks.
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Google Phone Translates From Images

Stumped by foreign languages when you’re traveling? Google Inc. is working on software that translates text captured by a phone camera.

At a demonstration Tuesday at Mobile World Congress, a cell phone trade show in Barcelona, an engineer shot a picture of a German dinner menu with a phone running Google Inc.’s Android software. An application on the phone sent the shot to Google’s servers, which sent a translation back to the phone. (more…)

New search engine aims to go where Google can’t

What Is Google Buzz?

Tuesday saw the debut of Google Buzz, a new service for sharing status updates, links and media with your friends. It’s currently being rolled out to the public slowly — you can sign up at buzz.google.com — but we’ve had access to Buzz since shortly after it launched, and I’ve had a chance to play around with it. (more…)

Google Chrome 3.0 Tested

Google’s Chrome Web browser has hit version 3.0, albeit it in beta. The update comes with some much-wanted functionality: themes and browser skinning, more control over the home screen and its ’speed dial’ bookmarks, and even faster performance.

Speed is central to Chrome’s manifesto. As more and more sites rely on large amounts of Ajax and Javascript programming — Gmail, Facebook and Google Docs being just three examples — browsers need to be able to process and render it faster than ever. This is an area Chrome has almost exclusively dominated since its inception last year, so we’ll look at that first. (more…)

Microsoft’s Gesture Recognition Project

Gesture-recognition technology, such as that seen in Project Natal, has changed the face of gaming, but Microsoft’s Craig Mundie (pictured) believes it will also transform the office.

In a demo at Microsoft’s financial analyst meeting in Redmond, Washington, the company’s top research and strategy officer showed how the desktop computer of the future will use an entire office as both display and input device, with voice and gesture control augmenting the use of a number of touchscreens. (more…)

Free Windows 7

Redmond (WA) – Microsoft confirmed that it will in fact give out a few free copies of Windows 7 Ultimate, when the software becomes available. However, the offer will be limited to a certain group of beta testers. (more…)