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Microsoft buys Jellyfish.com comparative shopping site
Microsoft Corp. has bought comparative shopping Web site Jellyfish.com, which gives its customers a cut of advertising revenue from retailers, offering a rebate on purchases made through the site.

Yahoo sharpens precision of search terms
The latest version of Yahoo Inc.'s search engine senses when people are trying to find the right keywords and offers suggestions, an improvement the company says reduces "search fatigue."

Toshiba prototype media player powered by fuel cell
Toshiba Corp. has unveiled a prototype version of its Gigabeat media player that's powered by a direct methanol fuel cell (DMFC) instead of a battery.

Samsung takes wraps off its iPhone rival Serenata
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. and audio product maker Bang & Olufsen on Tuesday unveiled their latest joint music-mobile phone, Serenata, which holds 4G bytes of songs and has a number of other music features similar to the iPhone.

Qualcomm licenses AMD graphics technology
Qualcomm Inc. has licensed 3D graphics core technology from Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD), for integration with Qualcomm's wireless chip sets for mobile gaming devices.

JVC shows prototype 4X high-def camera
As high-definition TV continues its seemingly unstoppable march around the world, engineers at Victor Co. of Japan Ltd. (JVC) are busy working on cameras for a next generation system.


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Store owner turns tables with GPS
They told Chris Rowland, whose store was struck by a series of burglaries, that he'd never get his stuff back ... so he started hiding GPS gear in certain items in his store. This allowed the police to track the stolen goods to the apartment where they were stashed -- but sadly, not to the thief himself.

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