Technology

  • The last few weeks, rumors have been running rampant on the blogosphere (really, the entire Internet) about a brand new device that will be loaded with a Microsoft operating system. Whether or not Redmond is orchestrating this buzz is beyond me, but the speculation up to this point does have me very interested. Code named…

  • Riya, a very interesting startup company that is building a picture tagging technology, just closed a huge $15MM round of funding.  Riya’s face recognition technology auto tags your photos with the names of those people that you’ve trained it to know based on facial characteristics.  Like something out of the FBI, or hollywood, this would…

  • Apple’s strong run with the iPod has lifted the company’s market capitalization to $72bn, or just slightly higher than Dell.  Engadget has a snippet from an internal email that Steve Jobs sent out marking the moment: “Team, it turned out that Michael Dell wasn’t perfect at predicting the future. Based on today’s stock market close,…