Microsoft cloud and mobile technologies deliver a simple, efficient service for getting a taxi ride in crowded Bogota, Colombia. Sometimes great ideas spring from mundane events. For Juan Salcedo, it started with the hassle of trying to get home on a rainy Friday afternoon.
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I'm posting this so that if I turns out to be right I have proof I knew it when it happened. LOL
There has been a lot of speculation and most of it is crazy.
I've been a pilot since 1972.
I sold my airplane and haven't done much flying since the early nineties but I still have friends who...
A helicopter has crashed close to Vauxhall train station in central London during the morning rush hour, witnesses reported. The London emergency services received numerous calls of a helicopter colliding with a crane.
A spokesman from the London Fire Brigade said 22 fire rescue units were...
TUNOSHNA, Russia (AP) -- A Russian jet carrying a top ice hockey team crashed into a river bank while taking off Wednesday, killing at least 43 people and leaving two others critically injured, officials said. It was one of the worst crashes ever involving a sports team.
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Thomas Sawyer, a 62-year-old bladder cancer survivor who made headlines last November after a pat-down left him covered in his own urine, has filed a new complaint with the Transportation Security Administration.
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Microsoft and Toyota Motor Corp. (TMC) on Wednesday announced they will work together to infuse the Japanese auto maker's cars with digital capabilities hosted in the Internet "cloud."
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, pictured in February 2011. Microsoft and Toyota Motor Corp. (TMC) on Wednesday...
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wo gigantic concrete pumps — described as the largest such equipment in the world — will soon be on their way to join the machinery being used to pour water on damaged reactors in Japan’s nuclear crisis, company officials said Thursday.
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The FBI is investigating what might be a bullet hole, discovered in the side of a US Airways Group Inc plane this week, the airline said Wednesday.
The small hole in the Boeing 737-400 was found by a pilot Monday at the Charlotte/Douglas International...
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Plans to set up a camping site on one of London's biggest commons for visitors to next month's royal wedding have been greeted with horror by local residents, who fear it will resemble the Glastonbury music festival.
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PARIS (Reuters) – France's government on Thursday ruled out any cut in fuel taxes to alleviate the cost of soaring petrol prices, telling motorists they should inflate their tyres and drive more slowly to save fuel.
Rising fuel costs, worsened by the uprising in OPEC-member Libya, are once...
British constructor Perry Watkins has assembled officially the world's smallest licensed car - and it has a top speed of 60kph.
At just 41 inches high, 51 inches long and a seemingly impossible 26 inches wide, the miniscule motor is in danger of being overpowered by other vehicles on the...
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After receiving a wake-up message from Star Trek's William Shatner Monday morning, the crew of NASA's space shuttle Discovery undocked from the International Space Station and began its final voyage back to Earth.
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Malaysian police have arrested three suspects involved in the heist of some 725,000 condoms, which have not yet been found.
Mohamad Shukri Dahlan, the police chief of Malaysia's northern Perak state, says the heist was "an inside job." He said Friday the suspects work for the firm...
Sweden is famous from some time for its eco-friendly culture and politics. Ever since the 1973 oil crisis, Sweden has made a commitment to reduce dependence of fossil fuels. The Nordic country was depending on imported fossil fuels being vulnerable to price changes on the global market.
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