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FotoTiger facial recognition app for Android puts the “Who” in your photos

Nov18
by on November 18, 2014 at 9:37 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web

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Applied Recognition, a company that develops face recognition technology, has launched FotoTiger for Facebook, a free Android app that automates tagging Facebook friends on your smart phone as it indexes photos according to the people in them. The app tags and sorts photos from your camera roll taken with the phone’s standard camera. Once tagged, people are automatically recognized and tagged in future photos. You can share images with any app or post directly to Facebook, Flickr or other social networks. “Tagging and face recognition are done on the phone with no server-side necessary, all in the privacy of your phone,” Don Waugh, Co-CEO…

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Google kicks off a competition to find the best Fit apps

Nov18
by on November 18, 2014 at 9:10 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Google, Insider

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Google’s already looking to push its newly released fitness platform harder with developers, so has announced a new competition for those who build unique apps that utilize the API. The competition, which starts today and ends on February 17, 2015, asks developers to build an app that integrates with Google Fit in an innovative way. Winners will receive a feature on the Google Play Store, free wearable devices and more. The Google Fit Developer Challenge is open to those in the US, UK, France, Germany, India, Israel, Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea, Japan and Taiwan that are over 18 years old. Any old…

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Google kicks off a competition to find the best Fit apps

Nov18
by on November 18, 2014 at 9:10 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Google, Insider

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Google’s already looking to push its newly released fitness platform harder with developers, so has announced a new competition for those who build unique apps that utilize the API. The competition, which starts today and ends on February 17, 2015, asks developers to build an app that integrates with Google Fit in an innovative way. Winners will receive a feature on the Google Play Store, free wearable devices and more. The Google Fit Developer Challenge is open to those in the US, UK, France, Germany, India, Israel, Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea, Japan and Taiwan that are over 18 years old. Any old…

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Apple Watch will offload most tasks to paired iPhone, comes in two resolutions

Nov18
by on November 18, 2014 at 8:38 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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With Apple’s WatchKit tools landing for developers this morning, we’ve got a better look than ever before at how the upcoming Apple Watch will function. 9to5Mac discovered that third-party apps will require a connected iPhone to function, as the processing for them will be handled on the iPhone itself, with the Watch simply rendering the result. It’s not entirely clear what will happen to these apps if the iPhone disconnects as the user is interacting with them. Watch apps are installed to the device by “your existing app” on the iPhone. Even more surprising, the documentation points out that some…

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Apple Watch will offload most tasks to paired iPhone, comes in two resolutions

Nov18
by on November 18, 2014 at 8:38 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

watchkit
With Apple’s WatchKit tools landing for developers this morning, we’ve got a better look than ever before at how the upcoming Apple Watch will function. 9to5Mac discovered that third-party apps will require a connected iPhone to function, as the processing for them will be handled on the iPhone itself, with the Watch simply rendering the result. It’s not entirely clear what will happen to these apps if the iPhone disconnects as the user is interacting with them. Watch apps are installed to the device by “your existing app” on the iPhone. Even more surprising, the documentation points out that some…

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