| Covelight backers say yes to $4M add-on | | Posted Tuesday, January 02, 2007 3:12:45 PM by Blog57 Team | | CARY - Venture-backed Covelight Systems Inc., working to expand the market uses of its fraud detection software, has received another $4.12 million in bridge financing, state records show. Infused into the 20-person firm a few months back, the funds represent continuation financing from a trio of venture backers that, all told, have pumped close to $9 million into the financial services technology provider. .... | |
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| | | Robots and software for packaging applications | | Posted Sunday, November 12, 2006 1:50:39 PM by Blog57 Team | | ABB Robotics is developing robots and software for packaging applications in the food, beverage, pharmaceutical and daily care industry. The robotics technology combined with vision technology enables flexible production with the capability to respond to the growing need for fast format changes. Find Information and Suppliers of packaging automation. .... | |
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| | | Ray Ozzie on releasing new software in a new era | | Posted Saturday, November 11, 2006 3:36:27 PM by Blog57 Team | | From the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco: Microsoft's chief software architect talks with event organizer John Battelle about why the release of Vista in the Web 2.0 era differs from the Windows XP release. He also addresses how his company is geared toward releasing software that has the Web in mind. 2 minutes 2 seconds Nov 9, 2006 11:01:00 AM More Video Resources All ZDNet Webcasts All Face to Face interviews Top news videos Video in RSS .... | |
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| | | Turn to Web for fabulous photo help | | Posted Tuesday, November 07, 2006 3:25:53 AM by Blog57 Team | | Q: Thank you for all the great tips. I missed the one where you described how to download photo-enhancing software. Would you please fill me in? Greg Cameron A: Heaven knows that Ive written a lot of stuff about ways to find software that lets computer users crop, enhance, adjust and otherwise tweak digital photographs, but I continue to get asked about this. Its understandable, considering that not only are digital cameras replacing traditional film ones, but cell phones are replacing digital cameras. I wonder what will replace cell phones? Folks should know that many of the online photo-printing services permit customers to crop, fix red-eye and do other minor enhancements with free software such as that from the Shutterfly Web photo service available at www.shutterfly.com and from its competitor Snapfish, at www.snapfish.com.... | |
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| | | B92 - News - Society - MUP acquires photo robot software | | Posted Thursday, November 02, 2006 7:15:34 PM by Blog57 Team | | BELGRADE -- The Serbian police started using modern computer software to help it produce photo robot images. The police database is comprised of over 2,000 photographs of known felons. The software MUP operates with uses as its basis the images of the criminals already known to the police. Olivera Radosavljevi of the MUP’s registration and identification division says a witness who gives a statement to be used to produce a photo robot first looks at the existing database of photographs. "The witness sometimes identifies the perpetrator directly, so we don’t have to go to the next stage", she says. Radosavljevi explains that in cases involving multiple witnesses, each photo robot is produced individually and then compared. The police will soon start using FIIS, a system for automatic facial identification.... | |
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| | | Aricent Debuts As Communications Software Pure Play -- Photo Available | | Posted Saturday, October 28, 2006 7:27:26 PM by Blog57 Team | | Aricent, a full-service, full-spectrum communications software company, debuts today, offering an unrivaled portfolio of software services and products for the communications industry. With its launch, Aricent sets the standard for designing, developing and maintaining software that enables communications equipment manufacturers, device manufacturers and service providers to improve time-to-revenue and maximize efficiency. To view the Multimedia News Release, go to: http://www.prnewswire.com/mnr/aricent/25851/ Aricent, previously the software development and solutions business of Flextronics International Ltd., is introducing its new name following the acquisition of 85% of the business on September 4, 2006 by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. (KKR) and Sequoia Capital.... | |
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| | | Online Digital Photo-Editing Company Launches Breakthrough Service | | Posted Friday, October 20, 2006 7:07:13 AM by Blog57 Team | | Vanity has a new friend in PhotoChop.com, where the public can easily access professional photo editors to make their digital photos appear however they wish. The site specializes in airbrushing, removal of blemishes, body modifications, and facial enhancements ... but can perform any alteration specified by the customer. While the concept isn't new, "the accessibility, cost, and turnaround times are revolutionary," said Stephanie Chu, PhotoChop's Marketing Director. "Imagine submitting a photo via a website, specifying what you would like corrected, and viewing the finished result within an hour ... No one else provides this, no one." This innovative service can be found at http://www.photochop.com/. The company's young executive team saw the need for a photo touch-up service that catered to the vast Internet communities who define themselves through their digital pictures.... | |
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| | | Apple Updates Photo Software | | Posted Thursday, October 19, 2006 1:15:04 PM by Blog57 Team | | At the ongoing "Photokina 2006" in Germany, Apple Computer announced Aperture 1.5, a major update to Aperture 1.0, the company's All-in-One post production tool designed specially for photographers. Aperture 1.5 includes enhancements over its predecessor, such as a powerful open library; seamless iLife'06 and iWork'06 integration; XMP metadata support; powerful adjustment tools; and an export API. Commenting on the update, Rob Schoeben, vice president - applications product marketing, Apple Computer, said, "Aperture has given photographers around the globe the confidence to work in exciting new ways. Now with Aperture 1.5, we've opened the library and extended the workflow to provide a solution that is as flexible as it is powerful." The open library makes managing RAW, JPEG, and TIFF images extremely flexible, allowing photographers to store image files wherever they want.... | |
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| | | Play Big | | Posted Monday, October 16, 2006 7:13:46 AM by Blog57 Team | | The CEO of a Southern California software company recently contacted FSB to trumpet the success of his new product. It had about 400 users at a dozen small companies and had just received a glowing review in a top industry trade magazine. But he and his co-founder were tiptoeing around a matter that they regarded as so sensitive that they spoke about it only on condition that we not print their names: Except for four developers in India, their company has no employees. Not even their customers know their secret. Thanks to a $99-a-month phone system and an actress who does voice-overs, a professional recording greets all callers and routes them to the company's sales, tech support, or marketing departments - but nine times out of ten, they'll reach the CEO. The CEO used $150 software to create an online video demonstration that walks potential customers through his product's features, giving his Web site a flashy, moneyed feel.... | |
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| | | Photo Finish | | Posted Thursday, October 12, 2006 3:14:30 AM by Blog57 Team | | If you take many digital photos, you're familiar with the problem: Your shot's perfect . . . except for those dark shadows, or the bright background light that marred the details. As a solution, Xerox scientists have come up with a "local contrast enhancement" algorithm for printer software that pinpoints an image's problematic contrast areas and refines the output. .... | |
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