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...Filling a Critical Gap Google fills software gaps as much through acquisitions as it does with engineering. After buying plain-Jane photo-management service Picasa in 2004, Google bought Neven Vision in 2006 to spice Picasa up with facial recognition. But after Yahoo! snatched up Flickr in 2005, Picasa never caught on as broadly as its competitors. Even as digital photography has exploded, Picasa has continued to lack sophisticated editing capabilities, making Picnik a crucial acquisition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Google's Acquisition Binge: Why It Bought Picnik | 3/5/2010 | See Source »

While Cheung said he is still in the process of figuring out the meaning of his historic election, he said that the most important vision he has for the Asian American community is to encourage this demographic to run for public office...

Author: By Ekene I. Agu, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Cheung Discusses Plans For Council | 3/4/2010 | See Source »

...tricking Tosca into believing that Cavaradossi has been unfaithful, Scarpia exults, “Ho accetto l’effetto!” (I’ve achieved the effect!), borrowing the language of Cavaradossi’s work to describe his plotting as a representation of some inner vision. Scarpia’s plan almost works, but, famously, it is derailed when Tosca stabs him after pretending to acquiesce to his advances. Tosca only does so, however, after forcing Scarpia to provide for Cavaradossi’s release and their escape together, planning a future where...

Author: By Spencer B.L. Lenfield, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: LHO Reenvisions 'Tosca' in Fascist Rome | 3/2/2010 | See Source »

...Puccini’s estimation, no artistic vision can ever be fully realized. A Scarpia or a Tosca can make extensive plans to persuade, trick, or force others to comply with their designs, but conflicting agendas always prevent their realization...

Author: By Spencer B.L. Lenfield, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: LHO Reenvisions 'Tosca' in Fascist Rome | 3/2/2010 | See Source »

...Crazies” is an intense, enjoyable, and surprisingly clever vision of a zombie apocalypse in rural America that accomplishes exactly what it sets out to do; raise your blood pressure, clench your teeth, and make you high-five the stranger next to you. Maximizing its low-budget special effects, “The Crazies” successfully remakes the 1973 George A. Romero cult classic of the same name by stringing together a series of frightening and gory situations while simultaneously—and unexpectedly—presenting uncommonly deep themes for the genre...

Author: By David G. Sklar, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The Crazies | 3/2/2010 | See Source »

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