Q&A: Better Place's electric car
plans, brilliant or nuts? (source: CNET Australia)
Shai Agassi is famously persuasive. With just an idea, he was able to
raise US$300 million to launch Better Place, a venture that plans to
build electric car charging spots and battery switching stations in
Israel, Denmark, Australia, San Francisco and man... (source: CNET
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Electric car that pumps energy back into grid
(source: CNET Australia)
Australian engineers have developed a plug-in hybrid electric car that
not only generates power but can pump it back into the grid,
potentially reducing running costs. (source: CNET Australia) - RSS and
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Global GPS Sales Flat in 2009 (source: About)
After years of double-digit growth,?sales of personal navigation
devices are projected to remain flat at 39 million units?through 2009,
according to tech trends forecaster, ABI Research. Not surprisingly,
the economic... (source: About) - RSS feeds and Feed widget on
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Tesla Roadster (source: CNET Australia)
It might be pricey and limited to the US and Europe, but the Roadster
is an exciting glimpse into our, potentially, electric car future.
Battery technology sure has come a long way since GM's ill-fated EV1.
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Samsung HKT600 (source: CNET Australia)
Beauty is much more than skin deep. Samsung's Bluetooth speaker won't
visually impress, but it's a great in-car speaker otherwise. (source:
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Split-Cycle prototype boosts engine
efficiency (source: CNET Australia)
Hybrids aren't the only way to improve fuel efficiency. Scuderi Group
unveiled a cutaway of its Split-Cycle Engine prototype at the Society
of Automotive Engineers (SAE) 2009 World Congress in Detroit. The new
design is the first major change in engine dyn... (source: CNET
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Garmin Software Update Improves G5 Golf GPS
(source: About)
Garmin recently released a software update for its Approach G5 golf GPS
unit that takes care of a problem I pointed out in my review of the G5,
and adds... (source: About) - RSS news feeds and Widgets on
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GM turns a shade of green before deadline
(source: CNET Australia)
It may be teetering on the brink of bankruptcy or nationalisation and
have a US government imposed 1 June deadline hanging over its head, but
General Motors found time yesterday to tout its green credentials. It
also committed to a further greening of the ... (source: CNET
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AT&T 'FamilyMap' Service Provides
Phone Location Tracking (source: About)
For better or for worse, the number of ways we can track each other
with mobile electronics is increasing rapidly. Many people ''opt in''
to?tracking?with services such as Loopt, which... (source: About) - RSS
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2,000-mile Update: Garmin Edge 705 Cycle
Computer (source: About)
I recently noticed that my total mileage on the Garmin Edge 705 GPS
cycle computer I reviewed last year has passed the 2,000-mile mark, so
it's time for an update.... (source: About) - RSS and News widget on
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Cobra XRS 9960G detects radar, and your
location (source: Cnet)
(Credit: Corinne Schulze/CNET) Cobra comes up with a new concept for
radar detectors--GPS that warns you of existing driving hazards. Along
with its 15-band detection, Cobra's XRS 9960G correlates your current
location with a database of known red-light a... (source: Cnet) - RSS
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Garmin Introduces New 5-inch Widescreen 1490T
Car GPS (source: About)
Garmin has introduced a new automotive GPS, the?n?90T, with a 5-inch
(diagonal) touchscreen, compared to the typical widescreen standard of
?4.3 inches. The 1490T?joins?another Garmin super-size model, the
n?00,... (source: About) - News widgets and RSS feeds on Feedzilla.com
Get a 4.3-inch GPS with lifetime traffic for
$90 (source: Cnet)
The Navigon 2100 Max features a 4.3-inch screen and free traffic
updates for life.(Credit: Navigon) It's no longer news to find a GPS
navigation system selling for less than $100. But to find one with some
killer bells and whistles? That's my kind of news... (source: Cnet) -
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Automate Business Mileage Tracking and
Logging with TeleNav (source: About)
Tax day is upon us, and if you wrestled with tracking and logging
business mileage for yourself or for a group of employees this year,
you know it can be?boring,... (source: About) - RSS feeds and Feed
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NextWorth wants more than old iPods now
(source: Cnet)
I lost interest in eBaying my old tech when all the PowerSellers moved
in making it more difficult to unload an unwanted or unneeded gadget.
That's why trade-in sites make sense; I'm willing to take a little less
cash than deal with setting up an ad, answe... (source: Cnet) - RSS
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Disease detective plans GPS-enabled asthma
inhaler (source: Cnet)
Analog inhalers make way for GPS(Credit: Flickr) Thanks to David Van
Sickle, we'll soon be able to track (and hopefully eliminate) recurring
asthma attack outbreaks. Van Sickle, a scholar in the Department of
Population Health Sciences at the University o... (source: Cnet) - News
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TomTom debuts XL 340 and ONE 140 series GPS
devices (source: Cnet)
(Credit: TomTom) TomTom announced Wednesday that it's rolling out a few
new models: the TomTomXL 340 and 340S and the TomTom ONE 140 and 140S.
The new units now include maps of Mexico, in addition to maps of the
United States and Canada. Furthermore, TomT... (source: Cnet) - RSS
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The 404 309: Where Tom Avery still can't feel
his big toes (source: Cnet)
World explorer Tom Avery joins the 404 today to talk about how he's
conquered both the North and South Poles of our great planet Earth.
Boy, does it make Justin feel terrible about his life, Wilson know
he'll be eaten like in the movie ''Alive,'' and Jeff... (source: Cnet)
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