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From Autoblog: eBay Motors app adds search-by-image feature
Filed under: Car Buying, Auctions, Etc., Technology
The eBay Motors smartphone application has a clever new feature. Users can now take a photo of any car they see on the street and the app will find similar listings for them automatically. Want to know how much that 2005 BMW M3 in the parking lot is going for right now? Just point and shoot. We tested the app ourselves and found it to be fairly accurate. It had no trouble honing in on a Toyota Sienna, but struggled a bit with editor-in-chief John Neff’s 1991 Ford Taurus SHO.
The good news is that if the app gets confused, it just asks you for more information about the vehicle. Users can also be notified when they’ve been outbid on an item, share their auctions via Twitter, and watch special racing coverage with host Justin Bell. Hit the jumpto check out the full press blast.
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From Business and financial news – CNNMoney.com: Verizon and Redbox team up to battle Netflix
Verizon and DVD kiosk company Redbox said Monday that they’re teaming up on a streaming video partnership, a move that puts Netflix squarely in their crosshairs.
From Business and financial news – CNNMoney.com: Citi is first U.S. bank to issue Chinese credit card
Citibank won approval to issue its own credit card in China, making it the first non-Asian bank to enter that market.
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From Ars Technica: Microsoft publishes fancy-pants heterogeneous parallel GPGPU C++ AMP specification
Microsoft has published the specification for C++ AMP (Accelerated Massive Parallelism), its new system for heterogeneous parallel processing in C++. When Microsoft first announced C++ AMP in June last year, it said that it wanted to make the AMP specification open to all.
AMP has been developed by Microsoft with input from AMD and NVIDIA. Microsoft’s implementation allows AMP programs to use both the main CPU and Direct3D video cards (via the company’s DirectCompute API), though the specification should also permit OpenGL/OpenCL-based implementations.
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From Wired Top Stories: How Windows Phone 8 ‘Apollo’ Would Stack Up Against iOS 5, Android 4
Microsoft’s Windows Phone OS is often criticized for lagging far behind iOS and Android. But on Thursday, a leaked description of Microsoft’s next big mobile OS, Windows Phone 8, came to light, revealing how the operating system will improve. But can it really compete? We handicap Apollo against iOS 5 and Android 4.
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