Loaded: Watson wants to be your Valentine's Day date
Loaded: Watson wants to be your Valentine's Day date
2011-02-14
it's Monday februari 14th I'm Natali
Morris and it's time to get loaded you
may already know that today is
Valentine's Day and there is no love
lost for Groupon the coupon site was
caught in a scam with FTD this weekend
FTD is the flower delivery site Groupon
was offering forty dollars worth of
flowers for just twenty dollars the
problem was that the group on site for
FTD was selling those flowers for
significantly more than they usually
sell for thereby making the deal not at
all a deal in fact the valentine's day
bouquet cost more through the groupon
page groupon responded by closing the
deal page who do they think they're
fooling sony has officially unveiled the
Xperia Play phone otherwise known as the
playstation phone we have been reporting
rumors of this phone for weeks and now
it's finally official it is an Android
phone with a 4-inch touchscreen and a
slide-out gaming control system that
looks a lot like the sony dualshock
controller games will be available
through a sony store the phone will
launch in the spring on verizon wireless
sony also launched two other noteworthy
phones at the Mobile World Congress in
Barcelona they are the experian neo and
the Xperia Pro they are candy bar
touchscreen phones the neo has a virtual
keyboard and the pro has a physical
keyboard both are Android phones LG
announced its 3d cell phone the LG
optimus 3d it's an android phone with a
1 gigahertz dual-core processor it has
twin 5 megapixel lenses that can take
photos and videos in 3d which can be
viewed on its own 4-inch screen without
3d glasses it also has hdmi out so you
can play your 3d content on a 3d TV and
if 3d is not your bag you can do all
this in 2d as well research in motion
discussed more plans for the blackberry
playbook at Mobile World Congress the
company says that to play books will be
released this year one with LTE and the
other with hspa+ this is in addition to
the Wi-Fi only and the wimax version
that were announced at CES online radio
station pandora filed for an initial
public offering late last week the
company is converting its preferred
stock into more than seventeen point two
million shares of common stock hoping to
raise
one hundred million dollars according to
the company the IPO will happen as soon
as practicable I don't know what that
means Bank of America may have had some
kind of security breach over the weekend
reports are that users were logging into
their accounts and seeing someone else's
financial information Bank of America
did not widely acknowledged this problem
but the company did tweet the online
banking was back up and running late on
Sunday and if you're thinking of popping
the question today it is worth noting
that Google now has a wedding planning
page google.com / weddings is a place
where you'll get specific wedding google
sites and google docs and also picnic it
also has tips for planning and budgeting
all of those things and finally if you
don't have a Valentine's Day date
tonight Watson would like to keep you
company this is the Jeopardy plain
computer the man versus machine episodes
of Jeopardy start tonight where I BM
computer will take on the to jeopardy
all time winners this is a three-day
tournament it starts tonight and goes
through Wednesday that is your news of
the day if you want links to more info
on any of our stories go to cnet com /
loaded I'm Natali Morris Kristina and
you've just been loaded happy
Valentine's Day
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