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Ford's Cars Get Sync Destinations App: Welcome to Your Car of Tomorrow

Destinations lets you send traffic and navigation info to your car from your mobile phone, and even pre-warns you about your departure time and ETA based on what it knows about traffic. Your car is now as smart as a real co-driver.READ»

Twitter Tweaks SMS Service for Convenience, Plans Tweet "Button" for Blogs

Twitter's taking another few steps to expand its services, making it way more convenient (even more than Facebook, which is surely its target). Is it screwing its third-party developers while doing so, though?READ»

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Google Unveils Real Time Search, Translation, Image Searching, Goggles...Awkwardly

Google called a high-profile press conference today, and used it to unveil not one big feature, but a number of current and future tweaks to its service. The list was impressive, so we've rounded up some of the cleverest tech for you.READ»

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Facebook Search Makeover Hints (Again) at Twitter-Like Future

The social-networking giant finally improves its search tool, letting you sift through a month of news feed data. It's also another sign that a collision with Google and Twitter may be imminent.READ»

Bit.ly to Turn Its Diced-Up URLs Into a Real-Time News Feed

The real-time push in online systems has attracted a new fan: Bit.ly. The URL shortening service has unveiled plans to turn its torrent of Twitter shortened URLs into a refined flow of news. Clever. And it'll make money too. Bit.ly ...READ»