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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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