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Ping - Google Goggles, Searching by Image Alone - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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  • It’s not hard to imagine a slew of commercial applications for this technology. You could compare prices of a product online, learn how to operate that old water heater whose manual you have lost or find out about the environmental record of a certain brand of tuna. But Goggles and similar products could also tell the history of a building, help travelers get around in a foreign country or even help blind people navigate their surroundings.
  • But recognizing images at what techies call “scale,” meaning thousands or even millions of images, is hugely difficult, partly because it requires enormous computing power. It turns out that Google, with its collection of massive data centers, has just that.
  • Barbara Lindsey on 20 Dec 09
     
    Google unveiled a smartphone application called Goggles. It allows users to search the Web, not by typing or by speaking keywords, but by snapping an image with a cellphone and feeding it into Google's search engine.
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The Age of the Smart Cell Phone -- Campus Technology - 0 views

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shared by Barbara Lindsey on 21 Dec 08 - Cached
  • 12/29/05
  • Less than 10 years after becoming a critical workday tool for most of us, college e-mail may be on the verge of becoming yesterday’s technology.
  • Any college administrator can attest to the popularity of IM-ing.
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  • But an even more compelling next communications wave is text messaging, now hugely popular with junior high and high school students.
  • And as text messaging rolls across college campuses, the importance of cell phones can hardly be overstated.
  • Schools like Wake Forest University (NC) are finding ways to embrace this trend. The private liberal arts institution is currently trying out converged Pocket PC devices in a pilot project involving 120 students and staff.
  • According to Wake Forest CIO Jay Dominick, the study is beginning to suggest that a PDA-plus-phone is a far more compelling device for students than a mere e-mail account or standard PDA device.
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