The U-Boat Legend:

U-Boats were submersible warships usually armed with torpedoes, or the predecessors to modern submarine. It was a common thing in 1942 and the demand for a professional watch for distinguished Navy officers led to a failed project. But drawings, designs and prototypes survived the scrap and stayed preserved over half a century, till Italo Fontana, successor to the company’s founder, gave form to the concepts through the U-Boat brand in the year 2000.

Today, U-Boat watches stand as a personification of character and strength, though the hallmark of the U-Boat brand is held on the crown mounted on the left side of the watchcase. An unique design that enhances wearing-comfort unexpectedly, it also the brand’s statement of showing class in power.

The Contemporary U-Boat Legacy:

Mechanical Swiss ETA (automatic or manual) movements aside, the full-bodied, bold, aggressive and oversized steel cases also define the U-Boat brand right at the first glance. A closer look reveals the PVD treated crystals with precious metal details merging beautifully with rubber and steel – an example of rare craftsmanship chiseled to higher dimensions of watch making. A must for anyone admiring tradition-based strength and a singular personality.

For who are the U-Boat replica?

For everyone who believe in reincarnations. An early ‘40s design brought back from the grave after half-a-century is now once more alive and kicking and has become more expensive than before. Admirers of chunky stuff, making a bold fashion statement is now possible with U-Boat replica watches, which sport the unique designs, materials and an overall craftsmanship that’s as good as the originals.

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Microsoft announced that it has made some changes to Bing Maps. Changes include the color of the navigation bar, draggble routes, zoom bar changes, command parsing, embedding, dynamic computing, new navigation, speed, and Bing Maps will no longer stop at the international date line, but will wrap around the world continuously.

Draggable routes is arguably the most significant change to Bing Maps. “This is a great (and much requested) feature added to Bing Maps allowing you to generate a route, then in the case that you need to change the route, you can simply grab any part of it and drag it to where you want the route to actually go,” says Microsoft’s Chris Pendleton. “To use draggable routes, click the directions link in the welcome pane or the car icon near the bottom of the welcome pane. Enter a start and end, generate a route, then grab anywhere on the route to move the route line. The route will regenerate for you.”

With the zoom bar, you can now jump to specific zoom levels rather than just zooming in and out, and if you want driving directions or traffic info, you can enter specific commands in the search box like “Bellevue, WA to Space Needle” or “Seattle Traffic.”

You can now embed maps onto blogs or sites by clicking the share button when the map is where you want it to be. You can then copy the code or click the “customize view” link to bring up the embeddable map customizer.

As far as navigation, there is a new selection of features on the button bar with the following:

- “Welcome” loads the welcome pane

- “Car” loads driving directions

- “Star” loads My Places, formerly called Collections

- “Envelop” loads the ability to share the map with someone via email, copy a URL or embed the map into a web page

- “Printer” is for printing

- “Traffic light” will load the traffic overlay

“We’ve moved the processing power closer to the user,” says Pendleton. “Using Microsoft’s ECN, we now have Bing Maps running in data centers in 7 locations around the world. This means wherever you are around the world, you will access Bing Maps from the closest geographic node to where you are physically located.”

In addition to that, the default Bing Maps home page dropped from 678kb to 484kb and Pendleton says it “zips through the pipes” much faster now.

Google has launched a new product that online retailers may find incredibly useful for improving the product search on their site, and potentially increasing sales and reducing bounce rates. It’s called simply Google Commerce Search. Think Google Site Search, specifically tailored to e-commerce and product sites. Google couldn’t have timed such a release any better with the holiday shopping season arriving.

“Search quality is a big factor in changing visitors to buyers online, and in making customers happy too,” Google says. “Visitors spend an average of just eight seconds before deciding whether or not to remain on a website, so having a good search tool is important for turning visitors into buyers. Google Commerce Search is hosted by and uses Google search technology to make online retail searching both fast and customizable — visitors to your online store can sort by category, price, brand or any other attribute.”

“E-store administrators can highlight special products or connect related ones so searching is easier for their customers,” the company continues. “Google Commerce Search includes a built-in spellchecker and synonyms so if visitors can’t remember exactly how to spell the particular toy or perfume or anything else they’re hunting for, Google Commerce Search will make some suggestions. Choosing the right one is up to them, though.”

Customization Features

When a user searches for a product, results can be returned in a user-friendly e-commerce-style product page, where they can simply click the item they want and add it to their cart. The site owner has control over how it looks. You can filter results through parameters like category, brand, or price, and you can sort search results by any attribute.

Results can be viewed in either a list view, which is more like a classic search results page, or grid view, which is more like the product page-style. You can control which product categories are promoted at the top or sent to the bottom of results.

Promoting Specific Items

The product also comes with a promotions feature, which lets you easily promote certain items, and cross-sell related products if you choose. It also comes with automatic spellcheck, stemming, and synonyms, so that if a user doesn’t get their query exactly right, it will help guide them to what they’re looking for. I probably don’t have to tell you that any minutia that you can control in guiding customers through the checkout process can be huge for improving sales and decreasing bounce rate. Speaking of that, you can link Google Commerce Search to Google Analytics, making it easy to track various metrics.

Getting it and Keeping it Running

Google says the product can be deployed in days, and that because it is hosted on the Google platform, retailers can scale to meet their higher-demand periods, like holidays, without having to worry about slowdowns or traffic spikes.

“The hosted factor is a key feature in making GSC easy for administrators to use,” Google says. “Because there’s no hardware (or software, servers, operating systems, cables, or any other equipment), admins can upload product information to Google Merchant Center and provide a few extra customization parameters – and Google Commerce Search utilizes that product feed to power their website store search.”

The same feed you use for Google Product Search can be used for Google Commerce Search. This can cut down on time and tech costs, as the company points out.