Looking to perform a little pricing arbitrage on internet purchases. Not sure if you are truly getting the best price at your preferred shopping locations. Enter PricePirates 3.0 a price comparison tool.

Most people shop around for price on the internet. It is just too easy to do and it’s too practical.

You can load something into a shopping cart and then open up a half dozen tabs and check the price at other sites. For many its the sites that come to them at a moments notice. Most people go to the same sites over and over again to check price. Services like Yahoo Shopping and Froogle do provide price comparisons also showing the best prices across a dozen stores or more.

Unfortunately, they also often have teaser prices that don’t pan out.

PricePirates 3.0 is a search tool that allows users to compare prices at eBay, Amazon marketplace and Shopping.com with one click. This covers three wide areas of the market all at once. Users can still cover any other preferred areas knowing that they have covered their bases even more thoroughly.

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SRI International is running a field test of in Iraq with 32 Windows XP laptops loaded with IraqComm, an advanced translation tool that allows english speakers to have an impromptu two-way conversation with Iraqi’s in arabic.

The software allows a person to speak into a microphone, the words are analyzed on the computer. The computer screen displays a validation of the phrases. The person can then click a button to confirm that the computer heard the english words correctly, and the computer speaks the phrase in arabic. If the computer gets the phrase slightly wrong, close variations are offered which can be selected and played immediately as well. The conversion of the english speach into text is run on SRI software called DynaSpeak developed in conjunction with USC in Los Angeles.

IraqComm has a 40,000 word english vocabulary and a 50,000 word Iraqi arabic vocabulary.
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There are many times when companies need to utilize a database on a given topic. Now there are many challenges to putting together a database, and sometimes we’ll think to ourselves, I’m sure someone has compiled a database of this topic before. Its seems kind of wasteful to plan out this database and collect all the datapoints. I’m sure some other company maybe even a competitor has built this same list sometime, somewhere.

Well that’s probably true. OdditySoftware offers up prebuilt databases ready for website integration or further development on many different topics.
Does your company need a database on the:

1. Credit Reporting Agencies
2. US Schools
3. Bakers and Bakeries
4. Private Golf Courses
5. US Hospitals

or more.  Well its possible that OdditySoftware has not only designed the database, but that they are have collected the datapoints knowledge and loaded it into the prebuilt database. 

They offer these sources of knowledge preconfigured in a Database design for a flat fee.  Many databases are available for less than $50.  You can
download that database, and be ready to take it on your website or develop it further to customize it for your own needs.  For the price, you won’t even get the scope meeting scheduled at your own company and this provides you a prebuilt standard ready to go!  They offer a Download Database Directory where you can browse or search for the database you are looking for.

As an example, I love the pubs in Boston and I registered a domain for bostonspubs a long time ago.  I have had this hobby project to build a website listing all of the pubs in Boston and offering up a rating system, happy hour break down, specials, unique aspects, food etc.  I’ve never gotten around to it, because I know some of the pubs but not all and I live in Atlanta and only visit Boston occasionly.  This tool can help me get off the ground with my hobby and start harnessing the power of the internet to develop it!

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Written by: Brett Bumeter, President

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