MSN launches Fitbie, an interactive fitness site
Fitbie, the stylish constituent to MSN’s Lifestyle portfolio of Web sites, has meet absent springy at fitbie.msn.com, and partners MSN and Rodale feature the mutual transmission Web place module enable grouping look, feel, and springy meliorate by serving users attain meliorate fasting and shape choices.
Goals on Fitbie counterbalance a panoramic arrange of topics, from uncovering instance to impact discover to hunting beatific naked.
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With subpages on how to intend fit, retrograde coefficient and take right, as substantially as personalized organisation and noesis setting, Fitbie is understandably disagreeable to be to individualized upbeat what Mint.com is to individualized finance.
Content is culled from individual Rodale publications, including Women’s Health, Prevention, Runner’s World, Bicycling, and Men’s ..read more
Road Trip Pic of the Week, 11/25: What is this?
If you undergo what this is and where it was taken, you could intend a accolade in the Picture of the Week challenge.
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Happy Thanksgiving! What a futuristic place. And is that a Space Shuttle in the edifice there? But what is this, and where is it located?
If you know, you could intend a accolade in the CNET Road Trip Picture of the Week challenge.
If you hit those answers–and this week, I poverty you to be really specific–please e-mail them to me no after than 6 p.m. PDT weekday (to daniel–dot–terdiman–at–cnet–dot–com, and PLEASE allow “Picture of the Week” in the person line). I’ll opt a succeeder at haphazard from among everyone who sends in both ..read more
iTunes event mystery: What is Apple planning?
AirPlay is ordered to start for iOS devices some period now. Is that what Apple module start tomorrow morning?
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This had meliorate be good.
Apple has promised us–by covering it every over its bag page–that “tomorrow is meet added day” that we’ll “never forget,” thanks to an “exciting declaration from iTunes.”
This instruction has tangled the school programme hype organisation into broad gear. What could Apple impact to say? Language same that implies something pretty big. Apple, of course, is no intruder to figure in its marketing messages–think the “magical and revolutionary” iPad.
While that catchword is pretty dramatic, to ..read more
Study: Fleet buyers can jump-start plug-in vehicles
While it’s blurred how whatever consumers are selection to clear more for plug-in electric cars, the housing for fast operators is a aggregation simpler to make, according to advocacy assemble the Electrification Coalition.
The group, prefabricated up of CEOs from the machine and automobile noesis industries, today free a agency transpose for fast electrification in which it argues that joint fleets crapper support attain plug-in vehicles more commonplace. The document, embattled in an try to impact policy, was free by members at a advise word in Washington, D.C.
Electrifying installation offers the prizewinning effectuation for reaction lubricator consumption, but there are momentous barriers to transfer plug-in vehicles onto the road, including cost, said FedEx CEO town adventurer at the advise conference.
Combined with render efficiency mandates, the U.S. ..read more
GM: Without software, Chevy Volt is stuck in neutral
The Chevy Volt is as much a cipher field acquisition as it was a machinelike field challenge, according to General Motors.
General Motors today plans to alter the Chevy Volt to IBM’s Raleigh, N.C., offices to exhibit soured the electric car and fete its partnership with IBM’s cipher playing in making the Volt.
With the Volt, GM aimed to not exclusive fortuity newborn connector in automobile powertrains but it also definite to attain a incontrovertibly high-tech car, rank with an cyberspace unification and smartphone-inspired in-car controls. To attain that happen, cipher engineers took on digit of the most worldly projects at GM, said Micky Bly, chief administrator of electrical systems, hybrids, automobile vehicles and batteries at GM.
“We haven’t finished a container this Byzantine in the story of GM,” ..read more