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search engine privacy revealed skype on your iPhone and a parking meter with brains of steel the queue starts now hey there what's going on thanks for tuning into the queue the only tech show that tastes better because it comes in a McDonald's rapper now on to your must click moment if you thought it was over think again rkelly with another ten chapters adding even more mystery and love to his hip hop rock now we made a deal the plan was for me to come home to bill I did my part so don't ifc releasing a new nugget every night at midnight in this never-ending saga watch everywhere some of this is definitely NSFW around cnet now how safe are your searches take a look at someone's search history and it's clear you can learn a ton about them where they're going on vacation that health problem they think they have or directions to where they're headed that afternoon for dinner newscom checking out the privacy policies of the five largest search engines and found them really tough to decipher so they started making phone calls ask.com keeps data the shortest just hours compared to google and yahoo's 18 months some delete it after that time others just partially anonymize it only Google and ask don't target ads based on previous behavior but a well lets you opt out of that technology confusing yeah it is at least when we use card catalogs you only have to worry about it librarians prying eyes moving through the queue a dream come true for some iphone users getting skype on their mobile a company called shape services announcing a Skype web service for the iPhone by logging into skype for iphone calm users can talk with skype contacts or call landlines and other mobiles service is not endorsed by Skype coin-operated parking meter seem so old school these days many of them take debit cards but only the photo violation meter is not only a car's best friend but also its worst enemy the meter adds a few nice touches like a no fine feature which rebuilds your credit card for more time when you run out if you choose to do so a grace period feature lets you pay for overtime even if you return to your car and the times run out but the best feature a camera embedded in each spot that takes a picture of your license plate and instantly spits out a ticket for violators how nice finally the site while Twitter asks the simple question what are you doing ping me takes the opposite approach asking what should you be doing the service like a to-do list that also reminds you to actually do it start by entering in a task or reminder they're called pings then say how you want to be reminded through email or text message when you get the ping you can even reschedule or snooze it the cool part is that you can link up to a friend or spouses account so they can send friendly reminders even when you're not around a text message telling me to take out the trash I'm sold oh this pink is telling me to wrap it up I'm rich demuro with CNN TV in New York City don't say it and tell you so Who am I kidding there's nothing on here you