The Zappos customer-service rep helped her scan rival Piperlime and Endless sites for the shoe.
In June 2012, the hospital instead began offering the service to patients waiting to have a scan.
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Finally, Google has brought its Google Play scan and match feature to the US. The service looks at your local collection of music and identifies those tracks automatically, making them instantly available for access through Google's systems.
Compuware APM launched its free application monitoring service Tuesday, allowing any company to scan its mobile apps within 15 or 20 minutes to see what user actions and code bottlenecks could be slowing an app down and deterring users from making a possible purchase.
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In addition, Microsoft showed an update to Bing Maps that enables indoor search, such as within shopping malls, and a Google Goggles-like service called Bing Vision that lets users scan products like books to find quick links to product reviews, prices and vendors.
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The recently launched service has lots of new audio features like Scan and Match technology and licensing deals with a number of labels.
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Users can also scan their phone to use a coupon, prompting speculation that the service was a placeholder for a future payments product.
The San Francisco-based business offered its service to consumers for 15 cents (10p) a scan, and charged other companies a fee to integrate the function into their apps.
The scan booth could be in a clothing store or a stand-alone service.
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