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Previous Searchme coverage:
Searchme tries music streaming to attract users
Search interfaces of tomorrow you can try today
Searchme nabs $31 million from Google backer, others
Visual search engine Searchme has a sexy new
iPhone app that brings its signature Cover-Flow-like interface to the phone’s 3.5-inch display. Search results come in the form of [...]
CNET News’ Erica Ogg and Stephen Shankland contributed to this report.
Using largely HP hardware and Intel processors, six initial data centers will be built at those locations, each with 1,000 to 4,000 processor cores (that’s probably about 125 to 500 servers). Though research has already begun “in bits and pieces,” all the centers are expected [...]
There weren’t any sales figures provided to show how well this nascent initiative is doing, but it shows that the movie industry is far more adaptable to changing media consumption habits than, say, the music industry.
Blu-ray players will have their day in the sun before movie downloads become the norm.
Instead of defending Blu-ray Disc’s longevity [...]
Looks as if the rest of the world may have to wait a tad longer to experience the pleasure of “next-generation TV.” The Sunday Times is reporting that Joost will ditch some of its more ambitious plans to focus on the U.S. market.
Marley, Joost's "Vice President of Office Hamony." We're not kidding
Nice scoopage, [...]
The site makes a big assumption that its users have credit cards–at least early on in life. Without it there are always paper receipts. Maybe a site like Shoeboxed needs to make a kiddie version.
Hangout.net is yet another virtual world. Kids can design their own virtual pad and adorn it and themselves with real-life products. [...]
See also Some Notes on SmartyPig in The Simple Dollar. And Leverage: A bank for your gift cards on Webware.com.
It pays interest, too (currently 4.3% APR). Plus it lets other people contribute to your fund–if you like gifts of the monetary kind. There are widgets for social site profile pages. And in a [...]
At Tuesday’s event, Jobs did not provide details on what led to the truce. Who cried uncle is still unclear.
James McQuivey, a prominent media analyst with Forrester Research, suspects Apple likely offered some concessions to lure NBC back.
“TV shows in HD,” said McQuivey, “doesn’t drive new sales of devices for Apple, but it does [...]
Screenshot of price list for stolen credit card numbers and available balance amounts discovered on the Web by McAfee Avert Labs.
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Criminals can even buy skimmers, fake face-plates for ATM machines that steal credit card data when the card is swiped, and so-called “dump tracks” used to create fake credit cards, the [...]
Normally I steer clear of writing about Facebook apps that have been created for promotional purposes, but this one is too good to pass up. It comes from FX UK, which has put together a very strange experience that tells you how “perfect” your face is in order to promote the plastic surgery drama Nip/Tuck.
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I love things that save me money when shopping online. While PriceGrabber and Google Shopping are my two go-to sites for finding the lowest prices on electronics, tons of sites track prices and give the heads-up when something goes on sale or gets its price reduced.
There’s also PriceAdvance, a browser plug-in that will pull [...]
