For me, Polar Rose took an hour and 17 minutes to process eight Web-quality photos that all together equaled about 1.5 MB.

Polar Rose plugin users can ID people in pictures by clicking on the rose icon. The icon automatically pops up below the head of of every person in a picture. On the other side of the product is a ...

Polar Rose will be available as a free Web browser plug-in for users and as a royalty-free API (Application Programming Interface) for partner integration. A public beta will be released in Q1 2007.

Apple has acquired Malmo, Sweden-based Polar Rose, a facial-recognition company with several products that could be integrated into Apple's current and future product lines. "Apple buys smaller ...

The Polar Rose software is designed to work in the cloud, on computers, iPhones and Android smartphones, according to a report by InformationWeek. The Swedish firm has developed technology that uses ...

The full press release is below. In short, Polar Rose says that sometime between January 1 and March 31 of next year, they’ll release a browser plug-in. Install this, and you can then apparently ...

Your next iPhone’s interface could get more in your face with Apple’s acquisition of a face-recognition company, according to reports. Apple has acquired Polar Rose, a Swedish augmented ...

Neither Apple nor the company is commenting. However, we have rock-solid sources that say the company went for $22 million. Polar Rose has had about $6 million in VC funding since 2006.

Apple has spent a little bit of that huge cash surplus to buy Polar Rose, a Sweden-based technology company that focuses on face recognition. In a blog post dated September 2nd, Thijs Stalenhoef ...