Daily Dispatch: Add price comparison to any site; Laptop positions to avoid

Combing through hundreds of blog posts and news articles daily, Dirk Klingner, our technology-trend watcher, sifts through the noise to bring you the tech news most important to consumers. If you have a tip on a story you want to share, leave a comment below.

...If you shop online quite frequently, you should try Invisible Hand — an excellent extension for Firefox and Chrome that will not only help you find the best deal on the Internet for any product but will even save you a trip to the price comparison site.

Farmer's market sets up stall in cyberspace (Times Online)

...The site, which launches on New Year's Day, employs the 3D technology used for developing video games to bring the virtual market to life. At first it will have 45 stalls selling condiments, meat, cheese, fish, soups, sweets and oils but it expects to showcase more than 100 in the future.

Common Laptop/Netbook Positions to Avoid (Lifehacker)
Click through for an illustration that "highlights ten common usage positions" and the problems that they can cause.

PayPal Rolls Out Send Money App For BlackBerry (TechCrunch)

...The app will also tap into your contact list on the phone making it simple to choose a recipient to send money too. Users can also access their recent PayPal transactions and monitor their account balances directly from the app.

Layar Pulled From App Store, Bad News for Augmented Reality (ReadWriteWeb)

...The company behind the much-hyped Layar Augmented Reality browser has decided to withdraw its iPhone app from the iTunes App Store due to repeated crashes reported by users. Layar had been the most eagerly anticipated entrant yet into the field of AR, a class of technologies that place data from the web on top of a camera view of the physical world.

Netflix Spilled Your Brokeback Mountain Secret, Lawsuit Claims (Wired)

An in-the-closet lesbian mother is suing Netflix for privacy invasion, alleging the movie rental company made it possible for her to be outed when it disclosed insufficiently anonymous information about nearly half-a-million customers as part of its $1 million contest to improve its recommendation system.

Lighter Side: SNL Mocks iPhone Reception (The Consumerist)