Visual search for mobile again - will IQ Engines come through?

It’s an area of mobile that is just as fraught as voice recognition. Visual search and image recognition is one of those exciting areas that people really want to work in mobile. With a certain amount of notoriety now surrounding visual search engine GetFugu, we’ve been keeping an eye out for more hot companies working in the area. And here comes one now: IQ Engines. Pierre Garrigues, Director of Research and co-founder of the Berkley-based company, spoke about its service at Mobile 2.0

Mobile visual search engine Searchme launches ad platform

Searchme has announced that its new ad platform has passed beta and is now available to advertisers. It has been in a testing phase with ad agencies and brands for a few months now, and Searchme is now confident that it intersects well with its “visual mobile search” offering.

Getfugu Mobile Search, visual search and voice search

Now, we have written about  Getfugu  before on GoMo News and Cian wasn’t too impressed. But today I just spend 30 minutes or so checking out the company and the service and various content.
Why?
Well Getfugu launched a new press release today saying that it has partnered with Interpublic’s (IPG) Emerging Media Lab, a leading center [...]

Amazon acquires mobile search engine SnapTell - a match made in heaven?

Amazon’s search division, A9, has acquired mobile search service SnapTell. SnapTell is an image-recognition app that can identify the cover a piece of media (like a book, DVD or computer game) through a cameraphone and return pricing info and reviews from the web.

SnapTell has been consistently high in the list of the most popular iPhone [...]

Mobile search engine Taptu launches iPhone app

Mobile search specialist Taptu has launched its long-awaited iPhone application today. The company has been operating mobile search from a mobile site that any phone can access, but the new app has been seriously optimised for the touch-screen user - and the iPhone user in particular.

The two main aims of the new Taptu app are [...]

Searchme has the right idea, with its mobile visual search on Ovi

Searchme has announced that it’s on-line “visual search” service is now available as a downloadable app on the Nokia Ovi Store. Anyone with a Symbian-based Nokia S60 can pick the application up for free by pointing their browser at the content store.

What is Visual Search?

Simply, it’s a type of search that returns picture results. Instead [...]

Mobile Healthcare - iVisit and a super mobile visual recognition plus voice service

I was a judge for the eTech CTIA awards but I didn’t judge this category - mobile innovation and healthcare.  This is the winner of that group a company (with a terrible name) ivisit.  And an application SeeScan (slightly better name) … but pictures speak louder than words sometimes and take a look at this:

What we [...]

Mobile Acuity Visual Recognition platform enables Nokia Interactive

Mobile Acuity has announced that their visual recognition platform has enabled Nokia Interactive, a global leader in mobile marketing, to win two out of the twelve categories at this year’s mobile marketing awards which was held in London on the 6th of March. The event is the annual gathering of the UK’s mobile marketing industry [...]

Mobile Visual Search Vendors

Anyone that reads GoMo News regularly will know that I love my lists!  Even though I am turning from Analyst to Strategist its vital to know who is who in the market.

So here is my list of visual mobile search companies. (By the way the operator interest and queries and questions on this area has [...]

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