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Fighting Monsters And Defusing Bombs In Augmented Reality

Timothy Hay, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on October 1, 2010 at 8:00 am PT

Osuke Honda, a general partner with Menlo Park, Calif.-based venture firm DCM, says he has been traveling back and forth between Japan and the U.S. all his life. He spearheads many of DCM’s investments in Japanese companies from the firm’s office in Tokyo, and this week participated in a $12 million Series B funding for augmented-reality company Tonchidot Corp.

Macworld ’09: All About the Mac, iLife ’09, Faces and Places

John Paczkowski in News on January 6, 2009 at 9:09 am PT

An appreciative Phil Schiller welcomes the crowd and thanks everyone for showing up. He says it’s an incredibly exciting time for Apple, and offers a quick overview of Apple’s new retail stores. Says Schiller: This year’s Macworld will be all about the Mac. I’ve got three new things to tell you about. Subject No. 1 is iPhoto.

A New Picasa Puts a Name To All Those Faces

Katherine Boehret in The Mossberg Solution on September 9, 2008 at 3:00 pm PT

An updated Picasa tries to take some of the work out of identifying people in shared photos by using “facial recognition.”

Mapping Your Digital Photo World

Katherine Boehret in The Mossberg Solution on August 19, 2008 at 6:02 pm PT

The Eye-Fi Explore Card, a wireless memory card with a geotagging feature that geographically prelabels photos, was unreliable in one scenario, but we found it to be a great way to automatically organize and label photos.