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R&E Taxi rolls out mobile booking app

FOLLOWING the lead of third-party taxi booking applications like GrabTaxi and EasyTaxi, the R&E taxi group has become the first local cab company to roll out its own taxi-booking mobile phone application. The taxi group composed of…

Nissan improves the rearview mirror with smart LCD

Nissan Motor Company, Ltd., has announced the development of the Smart rearview mirror, the world’s first LCD monitor that not only provides clear rearward visibility under various conditions, but also allows the driver the ability to switch…

Woman denies driving charge for wearing Google Glass

LOS ANGELES, United States – A US woman thought to be the first person to get a traffic ticket for wearing Google Glass pleaded not guilty in court Tuesday, her lawyer said. Cecilia Abadie, who was wearing…

Volvo makes conventional batteries a thing of the past

Volvo Car Group has developed a revolutionary concept for lightweight structural energy storage components that could improve the energy usage of future electrified vehicles. The material, consisting of carbon fibers, nano structured batteries and supercapacitors, offers lighter…

Shell Motorist App: Guardian angel of frazzled motorists

As a motorist, I log close to 300 kliks in a week, and as much as 600 when I have to attend events outside Metro Manila. A significant amount of that mileage is mostly via city…

Volvo to debut new turbo engines called Drive-E

Volvo Cars has developed a new range of engines dubbed Drive-E (soon to be a Pixar movie, perhaps). The diesel version features new technology called i-Art (soon to be an Apple product, maybe). i-Art puts a computer…