LAS VEGAS–Tessera Technologies has agreed to acquire FotoNation, a start-up that sells software cameras can use for tasks such as detecting and tracking faces, fixing flash-induced red-eye, and triggering the shutter only when subjects are smiling and not blinking.

FotoNation, based in Burlingame, Calif., has 80 employees. Its software is used in more than two-thirds of [...]

However, here is where things get sketchy. You can talk about intrusions, but in the absence of a smoking gun–or is it a dirty keyboard?–identifying the culprit involves much guesswork. Even the Pentagon allows as much:

“That’s the biggest difference,” Schmidt said. “Not only the Chinese government, but other governments as well have been [...]

Why would any other label sign on to this service? The labels already offer DRM-free tunes on Amazon and make a ton of money on iTunes. What sense would it make to sell songs on Sony BMG’s service and standby as a major competitor enjoyed revenue at their expense?
Now I know what you’re thinking — [...]

If you’ve used Restaurant.com in the past, hit the Comments and tell your fellow ‘Skaters how it went. Bon appetit!
Ever tried Restaurant.com? Me neither, but I’ve heard good things. Basically, you search for a participating restaurant in your area, then buy a gift certificate on the cheap: $3 for a $10 certificate, for example, or [...]

Cool Earth Solar has taken a radical approach to building a solar-power plant using a technique called concentrated solar photovoltaics, in which light is magnified onto solar cells to maximize electricity output.
A ballon that makes electricty.

Cool Earth Solar on Thursday said it has raised at least $21 million to further develop a solar generator [...]

Aide-memoire service ReQall, which I first tested a year ago, is getting a 2.0 update. New features will make this clever application more useful. Now, when you type or speak an item to remember, you can also help ReQall file it away for you by using certain keywords. For example, if you say, “Buy milk,” [...]

Its technology can be used in a wide range of applications, from combined heat and power appliances to residential solar power dishes. But the company chose to focus on small- to medium-scale solar power plant developers because of market demand, said Sitton.

He said that its Stirling engine dish can generate electricity 20 percent to [...]

Around New York, however, people tend to regard Blakeley as a good-natured Randy Quaid lookalike rather than a controversial hardware prankster. So when he announced that he was kick-starting a series of monthly get-togethers called “Media Meshing,” people jumped on the bandwagon. The inaugural event was held on Thursday night at a bar in the [...]

“(This) is likely to cause consumer confusion, particularly inasmuch as Askpedia purports to provide online informational services that are substantially similar to those provided by Ask,” the letter dated March 13 reads. “In using and incorporating Ask’s intellectual property in this manner, Askpedia is falsely suggesting a connection between Ask and Askpedia, and thereby misappropriating [...]

You have seen far worse in movies and with far less good intent. It can only go a small way to making teenagers and, frankly, half the alleged adults I’ve seen driving in California, consider the potential consequences of their self-involved habits.
But if it even makes one person think twice, or even once, about the [...]