Now, you bring your car to a service station, plug it in to a computer and the diagnostics show up immediately.
Just because Boeing decided to pull the plug on its Connexion service doesn't mean in-flight broadband has been grounded for good, with a company called ASiQ now promising to step in and fill the wireless void.
The definition of a website or online service directed to children is expanded to include plug-ins or ad networks that have actual knowledge that they are collecting personal information through a child-directed website or online service.
The definition of an operator has been updated to make clear that the Rule covers a child-directed site or service that integrates outside services, such as plug-ins or advertising networks, that collect personal information from its visitors.
London-based Skype Technologies distributes an application that works like an instant messaging service, but instead of trading text, users plug in a microphone and speakers and have a voice conversation.
Startup GoInstant is a service for people to jointly browse a website remotely without any downloads or plug-ins.
FORBES: Browse Websites Together In Real-Time With GoInstant
The phone service will only be available to AOL members, who will need to plug a telephone adapter into an existing broadband connection to make calls.
Starting today, MetroPCS Android customers can plug into unlimited music with MetroPCS' new Rhapsody Unlimited Music service with access to more than 12 million songs in Rhapsody's vast music catalog.
ENGADGET: MetroPCS partners with Rhapsody to offer unlimited music in its rate plans
"A zombie company is one which is generating just about enough cash to service its debt, so the bank is not obliged to pull the plug on the loan, " explains Mark Thomas, business strategy expert at PA Consulting and author of The Zombie Economy.
FM, Felix Miller and Martin Stiksel hope their service will be able to suggest sites that you will like through a browser plug-in that captures the sites and pages you visit, and then uses this with anonymized data from other others to power the suggestions.
The free, open-source plug-in, an extension for Firefox, checks a library of scraped terms of service and privacy policies from dozens of major sites that updates every three hours.
FORBES: Firefox Privacy Plug-In Reads The Fine Print So You Don't Have To
Google gives away a somewhat more primitive service than Omniture's called Google Analytics, but Google retains its own file of the data people plug into it.
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