Fresh iPhone Apps for Feb. 7: Hotels by Orbitz, TripLingo Romance Edition, The Hacker, Dream Pethouse
(Appolicious)
Appolicious - Get ready for your next trip with today’s leading fresh app, Hotels by Orbitz, which leverages the popular travel service to help you find hotel accommodations. If you happen to be planning a trip overseas, then our next app, TripLingo Romance Edition, which can teach you flirty phrases in 10 languages, might come in handy as well. In games, The Hacker will give you something of the experience of hacking into a 1980s-style computer, while Dream Pethouse brings you a casual game experience where you’ll raise pets and build them a giant tree house. Steve Jobs Spoofed in Tablet Ad
Ad widely criticized on YouTube as tasteless; Apple has no comment.
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Amazon may open a store in Seattle as a prelude to becoming a chain.
TiVo shares appear to be discounted: report
(Reuters)
Reuters - TiVo Inc is trading at a compelling discount and could be a possible acquisition target by Microsoft or Google, Barron's financial newspaper reported on Sunday. Suicidal Comet Lives!
Comet Lovejoy, plunging toward the sun as NASA spacecraft watched, was expected to be vaporized by the sun's heat. Instead it survived, missing the sun by less than 90,000 miles. It was observed this morning heading back into deep space.
Photos: The Ancient Oceans of Mars
A star nursery, the aurora as seen from the International Space Station in orbit, a storm on Saturn as big as Earth, a spectacular solar flare, and images of the cosmos from the Hubble Space Telescope.
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