CAN'T WAIT TO BUY SONG? DIAL IN, AND IT'S YOURS



Can't wait to buy song?Dial in, and it's yours
Now you can order music downloads on your AT & amp;T cell phone and get them delivered to your personal computer, using a service AT & amp;T Wireless debuted last week.
Why would anyone do that? AT & amp;T believes that when customers hear a catchy new tune at a bar or in their car, they might want to buy it on the spot. The carrier -- soon to be bought by competitor Cingular Wireless -- has linked its new music store to its phone-based music-identification service.
Here's how it works: Customers hold their phones near a speaker for 15 seconds to let the service identify a song (they can also browse the service's 750,000-song library directly from their phones). AT & amp;T then sends a text message to each phone, identifying the song title and artist; consumers who buy the song will have its 99-cent price added to their cell phone bill, while the song is delivered to a designated Windows computer.
For more information, click on www.attwireless.com/music.
Google adds free service,expands 'Google Print'
Google rolled out a trial service last week -- Google SMS, a free service that lets people use cell phones to send quick search queries via Short Message Service (SMS) to Google and get back Web search results on their phones' screens. Among other items, Google SMS can deliver product prices, dictionary definitions and phone numbers. Although it's free, people may have to pay their carriers extra for messaging.
Also last week, Google expanded its year-old "Google Print" service, which lets people search the full text of hundreds of thousands of books. Any publisher can now submit digital images of their book pages to Google, which the site will scan and make searchable for free. Users will see book results appear before Web search results; each hit links to images of several pages of a book.
Click on sms.google.com or print.google.com.
Woot, there it is: Web siteoffers discounts on items
Web-surfing bargain hunters have a new addiction: Woot (www.woot.com) an online retailer dishing out everything from 40GB iPods ($349) to Cuisinart blenders ($29.99) at steep discounts and a flat $5 shipping fee. Only one item is sold per day and it often sells out, so if you like what you see, click quickly.
Fervent Wooters have even taken to compulsive midnight browsing: New products are posted at midnight central time, Monday through Friday. You may also come upon the occasional "bag o' crap" which sells for $1 and could be anything -- from a camera bag to a TiVo. (You won't know until it arrives on your doorstep).
Combined dispatches