http://tech.peekbase.com Peek technology in one base Thu, 09 Sep 2010 15:40:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 http://tech.peekbase.com/san-francisco-considers-displaying-phone-radiation-levels-next-to-price-tag http://tech.peekbase.com/san-francisco-considers-displaying-phone-radiation-levels-next-to-price-tag#comments Thu, 24 Dec 2009 08:00:05 +0000 admin http://tech.peekbase.com/san-francisco-considers-displaying-phone-radiation-levels-next-to-price-tag December 24th, 2009 If the San Francisco Department of the Environment gets its way, starting as soon as next month Bay Area residents might start noticing the radiation levels of cellphones displayed prominently next to their respective price at retail outlets. This is, of course, despite no definitive research that the handsets cause harm and ... 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Read More]]> http://tech.peekbase.com/avatar-screening-in-three-hours-here%e2%80%99s-five-last-tickets/feed 0 http://tech.peekbase.com/etsy-buys-retail-product-ad-platform-adtuitive-gains-five-new-programmers http://tech.peekbase.com/etsy-buys-retail-product-ad-platform-adtuitive-gains-five-new-programmers#comments Fri, 18 Dec 2009 16:20:07 +0000 admin http://tech.peekbase.com/etsy-buys-retail-product-ad-platform-adtuitive-gains-five-new-programmers December 18th, 2009 Handmade item marketplace and community website operator Etsy, which is backed by $31.6 million in venture capital funding, has acquired New York-based advertising startup Adtuitive for an undisclosed sum. The small acquisition was mentioned on a company blog post published yesterday, although the announcement was pretty scarce on details. The blog post only reveals ... Read More]]> http://tech.peekbase.com/etsy-buys-retail-product-ad-platform-adtuitive-gains-five-new-programmers/feed 0