Author Archive: Oliver VanDervoort

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Imperia Bringing Plug-In Hybrid With Style To The Green Auto Scene

Imperia GP Is Hybrid Vehicle That Looks Like a Sportscar
By on Monday, 21. February 2011

With the green initiative picking up speed inside the car market, hybrids and electric vehicles have never been more popular. The easiest way to tell just how popular hybrid vehicles are is the number of automakers who are jumping feet first into the field.

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Toyota Selling Home Electric Chargers In 2012

Toyota Will Begin Catering To Home Electric Car Chargers Next Year]
By on Monday, 21. February 2011

While Toyota has already taken some real steps in the hybrid vehicles as well as plug-in electric cars, the company is now looking to make strides in another part of the green technology field. Toyota announced that starting in 2012 the company will start selling electric car chargers for the [...]

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MET Electic Car Sports 3 Wheels

MET Electric Plugin Is Tiny Three Wheel EV
By on Monday, 21. February 2011

Electric vehicles have had one heck of a surge in popularity over the last year and a half but one kind of EV that hasn’t been mined enough has been that of the three wheel variety. Yanko, an Asian car company has developed this three wheel electric plug-in vehicle to [...]

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Split The Rent Can Calculate Whether Roommates Are Paying Their Fair Share

Split The Rent WebApp Calculates Rent Roommates Should Be Sharing By Size Of Bedroom
By on Saturday, 19. February 2011

There are few young people who haven’t run into this problem. You decide to move in with a friend or two into a really nice apartment that you all love. One problem is that the bedrooms are almost never going to be the exact same size, and on occasion, one [...]

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Malaysia Airlines Putting Their In-Flight Magazines On The iPad

In-Flight Magazines Starting To Pop Up On iPads More & More
By on Saturday, 19. February 2011

While most people might view in-flight magazines as little more than something to kill time with, at least one airline is banking on there being a little bit more interest if they being to offer that magazine on the iPad.

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New Anti-Laser Technology Could Be Road Map To Better Computer Tech

Yale's Anti-Laser May Hold Key To Faster Computer Processors
By on Saturday, 19. February 2011

New Anti-Laser technology that has been developed by Yale researchers could hold the key to the newest computer processor advances. These Anti-Laser devices actually cancel out laser beams of light and may eventually help lead to optical computers. These optical computers have long been foretold as the natural successor to [...]

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New Reports Say Smaller iPhone Not On The Horizon

iPhone Nano Rumors Now Being Reported As False, Cheaper iPhone Could Still Be On The March]
By on Saturday, 19. February 2011

Rumors have been flying around that Apple might be coming out with a smaller, cheaper iPhone. Rumors were in fact so rampant that a name had even come about and most were already dubbing this brand new iPhone the iPhone Nano.

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TweetLouder Finds Your Favorite Bands On Twitter

TweetLouder Mines Pandora, Other Music Accounts For Your Favorite Bands]
By on Saturday, 19. February 2011

Twitter is growing ever larger as a means of social interaction and finding exactly what you’re looking for. Now a new free app will allow you to easily follow your favorite bands even when you don’t have the wherewithal to search for each and every one of them.

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Mozilla Issues Revamped F1 Browsing Extension

Mozilla's F1 Browser Extension Gets Much Needed New Look
By on Saturday, 19. February 2011

While the idea of Mozilla’s F1 browsing extension was arguably one of the best since they released Firefox there were certain problems that made the service not quite as perfect as it could be. The original purpose of the F1 browser was to make it easier to share links that [...]

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Verizon Making Home Phone Connect A Nationwide Service

Verizon Home Phone Connect Goes Coast To Coast
By on Friday, 18. February 2011

Verizon home connect has only been active in a couple of trial cities since December but the company has already decided that the service will go nationwide as soon as possible. Verizon originally launched the trial in New York and Connecticut only but the company apparently thinks it has already [...]

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