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If the question "Where am I?" is a recurring issue for you, Ricoh has added a feature to its GPS-ready digital camera that you may want to check out.
The Ricoh 500SE GPS camera now includes something called an SE-3 GPS module, a three-axis compass developed by Honeywell that nails down the position and direction (azimuth), then displays it on the camera's LCD.
The data, in the form of point coordinates, is embedded into an image as it is captured.
This gives the user a 3D "cones-of-view" perspective, indicating the direction the camera was facing. … Read more
Google announced on Friday the release of a number of updates to its Blogger publishing platform--well, sort of. The updates have gone into Blogger in Draft, the service's beta platform, with the expectation that they'll eventually become full features.
The updates will seem a bit humdrum for people who don't use Blogger, but for those who do, it's a set of important baby steps toward shaping the service to fit customer feedback. That's especially important for Google, as this is one niche of the Web where Mountain View doesn't have a huge lead: there … Read more
Yahoo is trying to show that it's taking hold of its own destiny again.
Phase 1 was the ad deal, under which Yahoo expects more cash by showing Google's more lucrative ads next to Yahoo search results. Phase 2 came Thursday with a Yahoo management makeover, supposedly under way for months.
But two big factors make it clear Chief Executive Jerry Yang and his allies have a long way to go before Yahoo achieves independence.
First on the agenda is the possibility of some partnership with another rival, Microsoft. Despite proclamations on two occasions that its interest in … Read more
As part of its latest reorganization, Yahoo created a Cloud Computing & Data Infrastructure Group, which is chartered with developing computing infrastructure that balances scalability with cost effectiveness, according to the press release. It could also lead to Yahoo getting into the business of selling pay-as-you-go cloud infrastructure to developers and companies.
Yahoo has been building massive scale infrastructure (now known as cloud computing) for years, but the intent of the new organization is to streamline development by bringing the various people and teams working on the core technologies into a single group, according to Yahoo CTO Ari Balogh, who … Read more
Proxy fights often leave shareholders feeling black and blue, but when it comes to the battle of Carl Icahn and Jerry Yang, it's a case of gold vs. white.
Icahn on Thursday filed his preliminary proxy statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission, outlining the backgrounds of his proposed director slate and encouraging shareholders to use his gold ballots to vote in the upcoming shareholder meeting. Yahoo sent a letter yesterday urging shareholders to vote for its proposed slate on its white ballots.
In his proxy, which was well timed to coincide with Yahoo's reorganization, Icahn outlines some … Read more
As a variety of forces swirl to push Yahoo and Microsoft back into each other's arms, some Yahoo shareholders are reportedly pushing for a deal that would see Microsoft acquire Yahoo's search business along with a larger stake, while paying less for Microsoft's shares than was previously offered.
According to a report by All Things D's Kara Swisher, some Yahoo shareholders have floated a proposal that Microsoft acquire a third or more of the company at somewhere between $30 and $32 a share.
As part of the search deal that Yahoo rejected, Microsoft offered to pay $… Read more
It looks like Patrick Pichette, Google's new chief financial officer, will be rewarded for his new job with up to $2.125 million after the first year if he earns his full bonus.
According to his employment offer letter, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Pichette will receive a salary of $450,000 and an annual bonus up to one and half times that amount.
Pichette also gets a signing bonus of $500,000 and another cash bonus of $500,000 after 6 months at the search and advertising giant--though he must pay a prorated amount back if … Read more
Microsoft and Google have joined a collection of insurers and health care providers in endorsing privacy standards intended to protect medical records stored online.
The new "Connecting For Health" guidelines, which are also intended to reassure people that storage of their medical records online is safe, aim to break the "typical logjam in health care," according to a statement released by the Markle Foundation, which organized the consensus framework.
The move comes as Google and Microsoft ramp up their efforts to create portals where consumers can l upload, store, and view personal information, as well as … Read more
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