You may have seen a number of interesting scenes captured by Google’s Street View. Some showed the faces of people which were then blurred using the face blur technology, some were caught drunk and the list goes on. Now the Street View has captured Porsche’s prototypes in Colorado including a Boxter and 911.
Archive for December, 2008
There are rumors of Apple readying itself to launch iPod Touch’s giant version by fall next. The new iPod Touch will have a seven or nine inch screen and may appear less of a music player and more of a tablet. There have been plenty of rumors already related to Apple recently, given that, we will just wait until we feel the gadget in our hands.
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Gawker Media’s Consumerist.com is bought by Consumers Union – the deal is aimed to increase reach of the website to a younger audience. NYT reports that the blog would become a new division of Consumers Union, where the current editors would remain on their posts. Kevin McKean, VC and editorial director of the Consumers Union states:
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Seems like Sony’s PlayStation 3 brand is struck with bad luck, now that sales are being made at a loss and faced by a new problem of censorship. PS-3’s virtual world: Home is under criticism for having offensive language on board the game. Sony’s efforts to curb this problem has come by putting a ban on words like: gay, lesbian, bi-sexual, jew, etc. A report states:
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The Wall Street Journal reports that Dell will be waving its hands off to Michael Cannon and Mark Jarvis after the two ha helped Dell cultivate enough success. Chances are Cannon will continue working at Dell but in a different position, while Jarvis will definitely have to look out for a new one. There have been some dissatisfaction amongst the ranks in Dell over the two and while cost cutting tactics fail to keep stocks steady, Michael Dell’s last action to control the budget was to boot some high profile execs.
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Who ever thought flash drives would be this imaginative – one such Octopus USB drive has blogs buzzing with its mating ritual casing. The Octopus USB drive has magnetized lips that join together with the other. The USB is available in 2 – 8GB.
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If you are crazy about jewels or want to give away a gift to your loved ones but can’t do it due to the high cost (specially these days), then you should take at look at this bracelet (pictured above) which costs just $33. The interesting thing about this bracelet is that it contains an 8GB USB flash storage. The bracelet is available in two shades i.e. golden and silver. The price of both colors are same.
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A recent report by comScore has revealed that the online shopping in holidays has decreased 3% as compared to the same time last year. Despite an increase in shopping on Black Friday and Cyber Monday, the stats have gone down from $25.537 billion this year to $26.332 billion last year. The most obvious reason seems to be the bad economic condition along with a less number of days between Thanksgiving and Christmas.
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While Amazon is busy posting stats for its great sales/deliveries this holiday season – a recent report casts them on top in the customer satisfaction department as well. Amazon and Netflix appear to be ruling the charts when it comes to providing a good shopping experience, online. The annual survey was taken from Web shoppers.
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