Google buys a computer vision company.
This company — Neven Vision — was dedveloping applications of computer vision technology for mobile phones. It will be interesting to see how Google uses this technology.
Google continues with its extreme secrecy approach. If you go to www.nevenvision.com you are told that
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Obvious speculations are that it will be used for Picassa. Will it be used with Maps? With Image Search? With Video Search? Well make your own guesses.