Official announcements aren’t expected until the close of markets today, but software giant Microsoft is expected to announce today that it has inked a deal with online video site blinx to power video search features on the company’s MSN and Live.com Internet services.
AOL, Lycos, Reuters, PR Newswire, MTV, and many other companies have selected blinkx technology to power their own video and media search functions, or entered deals with blinkx to make their content searchable through blinkx.tv’s own search portal. At the moment, blinkx indexes offers searchable access to more than six million hours of video, audio, and television programming. The technology uses speech recognition and video analyses to provide text-searchable indexes of video and audio content; blinkx stores and serves the searchable indexes, but leaves the video-serving to the originating sites.
Unlike many previous deals with blinkx, Microsoft will reportedly pay blinkx a licensing fee to use the technology on its own sites rather than entering into a revenue-sharing arrangement based on advertising.
Few things ruin a quiet evening faster than a robot vacuum roaring through the living room. Most of us end up pausing the cleaning run, which defeats the whole purpose of owning one. Matic thinks it has the answer with its new Serene robot vacuum, and the big selling point is how little noise it makes.
The Matic Serene runs at 52 decibels even when cleaning at full power. To put that in perspective, Matic compares it to the hum of your refrigerator. It is available now for $1,695, which is $200 more than the original Matic’s current price.
Outdoor security cameras are not always practical if you live in an apartment or rental. Drilling into an exterior wall may be off-limits, while pointing a regular indoor camera through a window can create another problem once reflections start showing up after dark.
Baseus is trying to solve both issues with the new PrimeSentinel W1, a $69.99 security camera designed specifically to monitor the outdoors through glass. It mounts directly to a window without drilling and uses a 4K Starlight sensor with an F1.0 aperture for full-color monitoring during the day and at night.
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