Technically Speaking

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Local.com has the patent

IRVINE, CA–(Marketwire - June 25, 2007) - Local.com Corporation (NASDAQ: LOCM), a leading local search engine, today announced that the company has been awarded patent number 7,231,405 by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for the process of indexing and retrieving web-related information by geographical location.

The patent covers local search technology related to identifying location information from web documents, indexing that information and making it searchable geographically. In Local.com’s commercial implementation of the technology, the search results are ranked by search term, LocalRank score, location prominence, among other factors. The system then extracts, matches and indexes web pages from the Internet and generates web references where applicable on more than 16 million local businesses listed nationwide on Local.com.

iPhone under armed guard

The first retail-bound volume shipments of Apple Inc.’s hotly anticipated iPhone device arrived successfully in the United States this past weekend, touching down quietly at a handful of drop locations just six days before the device is due to go on sale at nearly 2000 Apple and AT&T retail locations.

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People familiar with the matter say the intrinsically valuable freight was carried inbound by a certain Hong Kong-based air courier, which services Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, New York and San Francisco. The early arrival is to assure the cargo can clear customs with enough time to handle unexpected delays, those people said.

Awaiting the freight at each location on Sunday were armed personnel, who were reportedly hired by Apple through its courier’s ground handling agent and then cleared by the Transportation Security Administration. Armed guards are extremely unusual for freight coming out of the Asian sector, those familiar with the matter explained, and are typically reserved for shipments containing riches such as gold and diamonds.

iPhone and Sprint - and more games!

Also preparing for Friday’s “iDay” is Sprint, which last week issued a series of guides designed to help retail employees counteract customers who are looking to cancel their service contracts in favor of rival AT&T and iPhone.

The document, title “iPhone Talking Points Guide for Sales and Customer Care,” comes by way of MDN, which notes that Sprint staffers “are being told to expect an initial drop of up to 6 percent of their current ’smart phone’ customers” beginning with Friday’s iPhone launch.

Bebo and bullies

Today a story out of the U.K. shows Bebo being used in part to coordinate a fight at a school in the town of Tiverton. Over 80 students it appears were involved.

“Police said the arrangements appear to have been made on the social networking website Bebo and by emails, mobile phones and text messages. Bebo said it had not been contacted by the police about the matter.

Nimbit-OMT - What record company?

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