B-cycle Bike Sharing Startup Mashes Up Bikes, Gps, Solar Power And Fancy Branding To Save Our Health And The Environment
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Would you opt for a GPS-packin’, retro-lookin’ bike to make short trips in your city instead of a car? That’s the premise behind B-cycle, a bike-sharing startup put together by Humana, Trek and Crispin, Porter + Bogusky.
It may seem strange that a bike manufacturer, health insurance provider and big-name advertising agency decided to team [...]
Europe’s Social Network Netlog Brings Gps To Its Iphone App, Facebook Continues To Sleep At The Lbs Wheel
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Clear Standards Launches Gps-enabled Carbon Tracker App For The Iphone
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Spoton Gps Platform Enables Lbs Ad Delivery
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TechnoCom Corporation has launched a mobile advertising and marketing content-delivery platform, SpotOn GPS, providing comprehensive turn-by-turn navigation, search, and mapping.gis info
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Freightliner Trucks Get Navteq-enabled Predictive Cruise Control
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Freightliner Trucks, a subsidiary of Daimler, has announced the availability of its RunSmart Predictive Cruise system. Using GPS and 3D map data from NAVTEQ, RunSmart looks up to one mile ahead of a truck’s current location and taking into account road grades, adjusts the cruise control speed for the most fuel-efficient performance.
The NAVTEQ-supplied slope data [...]
Flawed Logic Could Create Future Chips 30 Times More Efficient Than Today’s
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In an impressive display of ingenuity, Rice University computer science professor Krishna Palem, is attempting to embrace microprocessing errors to extend the battery life of mobile devices by days or even weeks.
Current chips use Boolean logic which aren’t capable of handling errors, but by developing something called probabilistic logic, Palem is creating a computer chip [...]
Mapmyindia Gets $9 Million From Qualcomm Ventures, Others
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MapmyIndia, on India-based online maps and driving directions service owned by CE Info Systems, has raised $9 million led by Qualcomm Ventures, reports Medianama. Other participants in the funding included Kleiner Perkins Caulfield Byers, Sherpalo Ventures and Nexus India Capital, the latter of which previously invested $3 million in the mapping startup.
The company also [...]
Mapmyindia Gets $9 Million From Qualcomm Ventures, Others
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MapmyIndia, on India-based online maps and driving directions service owned by CE Info Systems, has raised $9 million led by Qualcomm Ventures, reports Medianama. Other participants in the funding included Kleiner Perkins Caulfield Byers, Sherpalo Ventures and Nexus India Capital, the latter of which previously invested $3 million in the mapping startup.
The company also [...]