Strategic Sharing: Zipcar Leads $13.7M Investment In Campus Car-Sharing Startup Wheelz
February 22, 2012 – 8:25 am | No Comment

Well, you have to hand it to the strategy team over at Zipcar . Arguably the largest on-demand car-sharing network, Zipcar went public last year and not long after saw its market cap cross $1 billion . It’s since fallen back, and with collaborative consumption and the market for car-sharing heating up, the big players have to make moves. Zipcar has since forged a partnership with Ford, making it the largest provider of cars for Zipcar’s University program , and, in December, the company took a controlling stake in Spain’s largest car-sharing network, Avancar . Today finds Zipcar making another strategic move to get its mitts in fellow car-sharing companies, again with a focus on universities, whose students are among the most eager adopters of car-sharing models. What do I mean? The company today announced that it is a lead investor in the $13.7 million series A financing of Wheelz , a junior, university-focused version of itself. The Detroit-based Fontinalis…

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All I wanna do is zooma-zoom-zoom: Overclocking the Droid

Submitted by admin on January 26, 2010 – 11:14 amNo Comment

a5c222e53arclock.jpg All I wanna do is zooma zoom zoom: Overclocking the Droid

Some crazy programmers have overclocked the Droid to 1.1GHz, making it faster than the Nexus one. The Droid usually runs at about 600MHz so bumping it up to 1.1 was fairly dangerous. However, with a little tweaking the boys at AllDroid were able to find a stable speed at about 800MHz. How do you do it? Well, it requires you to root your Droid, a fairly simple process and then upload a new bit of firmware. The full instructions are here . As someone who has tried to futz with firmware, this second step is pretty rough so get yourself a few bottles of beer before you start. Crunch Network : CrunchGear drool over the sexiest new gadgets and hardware.

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