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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Samsung releases 64GB memory device and 32GB micro-SD
January 13, 2010 – 3:50 am | No Comment
Samsung releases 64GB memory device and 32GB micro-SD Samsung has announced that its 30nm (nanometer) chip-making technology has led to the release of two new products: first, a 64GB moviNAND, that comprises 64Gb of memory and a memory controller. Secondly, there is a 32GB micro-SD card. Both products are built for mobile devices such as cellphones. Samsung is one of the largest memory makers in the world. For you and I, it's just another day in "electronics ...
HTC to sell 8 handsets through T-Mobile alone in 2010?
January 12, 2010 – 10:29 pm | No Comment
HTC to sell 8 handsets through T-Mobile alone in 2010? Making 8 different handsets is no big feat — Hell, Samsung will probably launch 4 or 5 by the time I’m done typing this post — but getting 8 handsets onto one carrier in one year? Not too shabby. That’s what HTC will be doing in 2010 with T-Mobile, says one of Boy Genius’ boys. It’s important to note that not all of these handsets are necessarily new – we’re counting SKU by SKU here, some of which are already in the system. The myTouch 3G and ...
PocketMac Announces New Service to Save Smartphones
January 12, 2010 – 7:17 pm | No Comment
PocketMac Announces New Service to Save Smartphones Unavoidable circumstances such as accidentally dropping your phone on a toilet or damaged due to some unexpected event normally means saying goodbye to all the valuable data stored in them. But thanks to PocketMac, a new service has been announced which should help save the digital life of your smartphone.
Sprint Nextel drops Motorola Brute on unsuspecting public
January 12, 2010 – 1:24 am | No Comment
Sprint Nextel drops Motorola Brute on unsuspecting public Oh Nextel. The insults continue. First, your service continues to hemorrhage users, and now you get subjected to phones that look like the Motorola Brute. It’s almost enough to make me feel a little sorry for you. The Brute i680 is an iDEN compatible, Mil-Spec phone, which explains its striking appearance. It’s actually designed to be resistant to dust, shock, vibration, moisture, solar radiation, and pretty much anything else you can think of to throw at it. Unlike most Nextel phones, it’s also got a few newer ...
Dear Apple: What we want to see for iPhone 4.0, part 1
January 11, 2010 – 8:28 am | No Comment
Dear Apple: What we want to see for iPhone 4.0, part 1 A week ago we asked you, the TUAW reader, to help us tell Apple what you want in the next iPhone: the OS, the apps, the hardware. Within two hours, I had over two hundred emails in my inbox. Within four days, the email total topped 1,100. As I was shifting and sorting through all your suggestions, one thing became clear: you love the iPhone, but you want to see it better, more intuitive, and more versatile – and you ...
Tingalin releases Jersey Shore iPhone app before MTV
January 11, 2010 – 4:00 am | No Comment
Tingalin releases Jersey Shore iPhone app before MTV Tingalin , the makers of the world-famous Tingalin app , have outdone themselves. Their new app, based on the magic of the Jersey Shore but not directly affiliated with the MTV show in any way features a number of useful tools for the Situation-in-training. While the upcoming “fake tan” system is not yet in place, the app does have a nickname generator, a fist pump challenge that acts like Guitar Hero for bros, as well as a list of useful pick-up lines for meeting and wooing drunk ...
Xtreme Mac InCharge Home
January 11, 2010 – 1:18 am | No Comment
Xtreme Mac InCharge Home Xtreme Mac had a lot of stuff on display for CES 2010, and most of it was related to their InCharge Home. This unit is a dual USB iPhone/iPod wall charger that features a low-profile design that allows charging of any two USB devices and easy access to the second outlet.
The most ridiculous cars of CES [gallery]
January 10, 2010 – 6:22 am | No Comment
The most ridiculous cars of CES [gallery] I decided to take a gander through the car audio section of the show and was met with quite possibly some of the most grandiose automobiles I have ever been within 5 feet of. Despite the purpose of these vehicles being to showcase the audio systems these companies can create, flashing lights and bright colors seemed to be the attention getting method of choice. Although, more often than not, I heard Soulja Boy being passed as music. Gross. Anyway, the image descriptions will tell you exactly why ...
Video: Windows Mobile 6.5.3 caught on film
January 10, 2010 – 6:22 am | No Comment
Our buddies over at Phonescoop spotted a handset running a copy of the as-of-yet unreleased Windows Mobile 6.5.3 floating around at CES, and were nice enough to snap some footage for everyone not living in the Las Vegas Convention Center this week. They run through just about everything 6.5.3 has to offer, from the new finger-friendly UI to the brand new, seemingly much improved onscreen keyboard; if Windows Mobile is your thing, be sure to check it out. Crunch Network : CrunchGear drool over the sexiest new gadgets and ...