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Peer-to-Peer Car Sharing Start-Up WhipCar Is Zooming Down ZipCar's Lane

The firm, which operates out of London's West End, is expecting to take six months to get to the number of vehicles that the U.K.'s "leading car club" took six years to attain.READ»

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iFive: Mobile Video Wars, Facebook's Geo-location, Swine Flu 2 (Infectious Boogaloo), Malaria Nexus, U.K.'s Green Truck Stop

While you were sleeping, innovation resigned in a truly innovative way: It wrote a letter to its boss, and sent it snail mail.1. A couple of "cool new mobile features" are to be unveiled by Google on Thursday for Android phones. It's ...READ»

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Zipcar Adds Plug-In Hybrid Vehicles to its Fleet

Car-sharing service Zipcar knows that plug-in hybrids are coming down the pipeline fast--witness Toyota's announcement this week that the plug-in Prius is due for release in 2012--and it's wasting no time in positioning itself for their arrival. td8xmcrzw9READ»