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for once you can talk back to a commercial I'm Bridget Carey and this is your scene mfc apparently it's not enough to ask your phone a question but now you can talk to the advertisements on your phone nuance the company behind dragon speech recognition software has launched a service called voice ads so brands can build mobile ads that will respond to your voice commands the company demoed the concept with a magic 8-ball that responds to questions these ads also tap into a phone's location with GPS and Wi-Fi to target users when they're near a store mobile advertising is an area that is primed for growth as everyone wants to figure out how to make more money from eyeballs on smartphones but let's hope these voices are more clever and funny than annoying keep your eye on area the TV streaming service is not only about to expand to more metro areas but it's also said to be talking with ATT and dish about a partnership to show more content that report comes from The Wall Street Journal Aereo's service is designed for people who don't already have a television provider for about eight bucks a month users get live local over-the-air broadcast television to watch on their pcs apple iphone and ipads as well as Apple TV and the Roku major broadcasters including seen its parent company CBS are suing area for copyright violation since it retransmits over-the-air programming without permission from the broadcasters but area scored a victory this week a federal appeals court in New York held the ruling that the system does not violate broadcaster copyrights now the TV networks must win an appeal at the Supreme Court if they want to stop area ebay same-day shipping service called eBay now is only in three US cities but the CEO of ebay told fortune that he thinks it could eventually be available everywhere an eBay is looking to partner with delivery trucks to get the service in more areas same day shipping is the next battleground for online shopping Google started testing a service last week in San Francisco there are also reports of Walmart and Amazon looking into same-day shipping every April Fool's Day dozens of brands pull pranks announcing bogus new features or gadgets hulu added fake shows like itchy and scratchy too shiba took a job at Google's Nexus Q and the Xbox Kinect with the Shiva sphere a motion-sensing game console that can measure your anger Twitter said it would charge for using vows mm-hmm and Google likes to think it's king of the clown's its various departments made up eight different pranks including shutting down YouTube and Lady new search for smells on your phone amazing how they have time to come up with all these gags yet keeping Google Reader is just not a good use of the company's resources that's your tech news update you can find more details at cnet com / update and be sure to follow along on Twitter from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey