Posted on 10 May 2011. Tags: Electronics, OnStar, rearview mirror, telematics
With the consumer launch of OnStar’s new retail product, OnStar FMV (For My Vehicle), this summer, excitement is growing surrounding the expanded availability of the telematics service for more than 90 million vehicles on the road. OnStar FMV is a rearview mirror that delivers the core features that have made OnStar the most trusted and [...]
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Posted on 06 May 2011. Tags: GPS, Recreation Vehicles, RV, Travel, Vacation
After far-reaching research and beta testing in the RVing world, Rand McNally is releasing the first ever GPS device designed sole for RVers, the TripMaker®RVND™5510. It will be released in North America in June and will be fully functional in English, Spanish, and Canadian French. Dave Muscatel, CEO of Rand McNally, says “We’ve listened carefully [...]
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Posted on 05 May 2011. Tags: gas price
According to analysis of data by The Oil Price Information Service, the average American household spent $368 for gasoline last month. That is more than double what American families paid two years ago when gas prices were around $2.05 a gallon. So far this year gas prices have surged nearly 30%. The price of gasoline [...]
Posted in Business Products and Services, Featured, Other Automotive
Posted on 27 April 2011.
Apple, in response to last week’s revelation of location tracking, has admitted that iPhones store locations and plans to release a patch to scale back that data collection. Apple says that widespread complaints and privacy fears have mischaracterized the type of information on its phones. Apple says that the data is not a log of [...]
Posted in Business Products and Services, Featured, Other Computers and Technology
Posted on 22 April 2011. Tags: Apple, data, iPad, iPhone
Two researchers, Alasdair Allan and Pete Warden, unveiled Wednesday that the iPhone and iPad 3Gs by Apple collect continuous information on the users’ locations and store that date in a secret file called “consolidated.db”. The data is not as accurate as GPS because it uses cell towers not satellite to triangulate the location. This has [...]
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Posted on 15 April 2011.
A large number of American families continue to struggle to put food on their tables as the economy remains sluggish. According to the USDA, 50 million Americans, including 17 million children live in households that are not getting enough to eat. That works out to one in six households. In response to this need, America’s [...]
Posted in Business Products and Services, Other Food & Drink
Posted on 19 May 2010.
A company from Switzerland has come up with a process to get stem cells from fat and a process to freeze them. The company is called Cryo Save and they announced the introduction of Cryo Lip which is a new process that they use to collect process and store adult stem cells from liposuction. When [...]
Posted in Business Products and Services, Health
Posted on 17 May 2010. Tags: Bankruptcy, Business Products and Services, Finance
Chapter 11 is not just for big businesses as stated in the title of this article, yes the big boys like the fortune 500 companies that have billions of dollars in assets do use it ,but not a lot of people don’t realize that they can use it also with their small business. Especially in [...]
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