photo credit: 29856334@N00 There is one tiny upside to the onerous amounts of regulation that governments continue to generate: they occasionally allow smart entrepreneurs to create businesses that help people navigate through them. Here’s one such story: As Memphis city leaders try to find ways to lessen car inspection wait times like waiving emissions testing […]
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As the era for electric transportation begins, Mahi Reddy hopes to fill in a big piece of the electric car puzzle, reports The Washington Post. Sure, homeowners can run a cord from an outlet to the environmentally friendly vehicle, but what if you don’t have a garage? What if you live in an apartment and
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Have trouble keeping track of your mileage for tax deductions or reimbursements? Let your iPhone do it. Taxgirl has the details. Despite the much ballyhooed drop in the IRS’ standard mileage rates for 2010, they’re still not bad. For 2010, the rates are: – 50 cents per mile for business miles driven – 16.5 cents
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The Tennessean: You might not expect a 71 year-old widow and her daughter to be at the helm of one of the oldest and most successful body shops in Hendersonville, but that’s all in a day’s work at Rivergate Body Shop. Ruth Gann and daughter Pam Barrett operate the local business, along with Barrett’s husband,
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On a recent evening in this southern French city, Maurice Berrayah parked his black Renault sedan outside a gray warehouse, and a Chronodrive supermarket employee packed his trunk with a week’s worth of milk, wine, eggs and other foodstuffs his wife had ordered online earlier in the day. “We don’t have to go grocery shopping
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Listen up, buttercream lovers, a cupcake truck is making its first San Francisco appearance dispensing deliciousness in varieties that include Red Velvet, Twinkie, and S’more. Called Cupkates, the truck rolled out last week at Caltopia, Berkeley’s annual campus welcome fest. Owner Kate McEachern — a former managing editor at Dwell magazine — told SFoodie the
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Ford is opening up their API in 2010 to developers to make apps for Sync, according to a story at Gadgetell.com. Since the iPhone, having other people make your devices famous has become all the rage; and now Ford too is jumping on this bandwagon. They plan to release Ford Sync version of the app
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TIME’s picks for the best new gadgets and breakthrough ideas of the year, we’ll feature some of the ones we find interesting. If it’s impossible for a race car to be “good” for the environment, maybe it can at least be a little friendlier. Meet the WorldFirst F3 project, a Formula 3 race car developed
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cashURwheels is an Australian firm that serves as an online marketplace connecting drivers directly with companies interested in vehicle-based ads reports trendspotter Springwise. Whereas carvertising agencies ask drivers to register their vehicles in the hopes of eventually being one of the few selected to be part of a large campaign, cashURwheels connects drivers directly with
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There’s been plenty of lip service paid to electric vehicles in recent years, but the fact remains that in many communities, they’re still more frequently discussed than actually seen. Not so in several U.S. neighborhoods, however, where golf carts and other diminutive electric vehicles are part of the very fabric of community life writes trendspotter
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