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Find Local Rideshares Quickly via Mobile Phone

(PhysOrg.com) -- In spite of rising energy prices, many car drivers in large cities still ride alone. The OpenRide mobile ridesharing service aims to save them money while reducing the amount of traffic and ...

Technology / Engineering

created Sep 03, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Ridesharing can be made into more attractive cost-saver, study shows

(PhysOrg.com) -- The benefits of ridesharing - aka car-pooling - are well known: less traffic, less wear on roads and less fuel consumed, and the ability to engage in pre-office-hours water-cooler talk that can be accomplished ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Jan 05, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0




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FASTAT launch on its way

Launch of the FASTSAT Satellite is scheduled for this Friday night, November 19, at 8:24 PM ET on a Minotaur IV launch vehicle from the Alaska Aerospace Corporations Kodiak Launch Complex on Kodiak Island, ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 18, 2010 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

FASTSAT microsatellite readied to share a ride

As the holiday season approaches, people are already planning ways to share with others, because sharing is always good. This is also true for NASA's Fast, Affordable, Science and Technology Satellite, or ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 04, 2010 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

NASA’s FASTSAT Satellite Arrives at Kodiak, Alaska, Launch Complex

NASA's first microsatellite designed to create a capability that increases opportunities for secondary, scientific and technology payloads, or rideshares, to be flown at lower cost than before has arrived at Kodiak Island, ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Aug 11, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Social networking apps for cars to be unveiled at U-M

(PhysOrg.com) -- Social networking and transportation utility applications for cars are being prototyped in a Cloud Computing in the Commute course taught this semester at the University of Michigan in partnership with Ford ...

Technology / Software

created Apr 20, 2010 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0


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