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Summer Gas Prices, Consumption Expected to Drop
KickingTiresIf government projections hold true, Americans this year will pay the lowest summer gas prices they have in two years. The U.S. Energy Information Administration reported this week that the price for a gallon of regular gas is expected to......Tags: Energy Saving, Commodity Markets, Upstream Oil and Gas Activities, Petroleum Industry, AAA
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Will 'Fast and Furious' Accelerate Dodge Dart Sales?
KickingTiresThe return of Michelle Rodriguez as the ostensibly back-from-the-dead Letty Ortiz in "Fast & Furious 6," roaring into theaters May 24, has been a key element in the film's prerelease marketing. Similarly, the resurrected-for-2013 Dodge Dart is ready for...Tags: Vin Diesel, Michelle Rodriguez, The Fast and the Furious 6 (movie), Movies, Dwayne Johnson
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Why the Dodge Dart Has a Long Way to Go
KickingTiresDodge sold just 7,154 Dart sedans in January ??? better than December 2012, but a shabby performance when you consider that Honda moved 21,881 Civics, Ford sold 16,161 Focuses and Toyota moved 23,822 Corollas and Matrixes. Dodge dealers opened January.......Tags: Automotive Equipment, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Sergio Marchionne, Passenger Cars, Chrysler
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California Legalizes Self-Driving Cars
KickingTiresCalifornia became the third state to legalize self-driving cars, according to the Wall Street Journal. Nevada passed similar legislation around this time last year, as did Florida, the newspaper reports. At the signing ceremony for the legislation were...Tags: Executive Branch, Google Inc., Health Organizations, Jerry Brown, Newspaper and Magazine
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2012 BMW 7 Series, 3 Series to Get Speech-to-Text Service
KickingTiresModel-year 2012 versions of the BMW 7 Series and 3 Series now have access to a sophisticated speech-dictation software, according to The Wall Street Journal. The app, called Dragon Drive Messaging, is made by Nuance, a popular speech-recognition developer...Tags: John Doe, Newspaper and Magazine, Pandora Media, Inc.
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Daily News Briefs: June 12, 2012
KickingTiresAs auto sales continue to rise, so too does the number of car dealerships and salespeople working at them, according to The Detroit News. In the first three months of 2012, 66 auto dealerships opened and 146,500 more jobs were......Tags: Automotive Equipment, Mexico, Manufacturing and Engineering, Vehicles, Marketing
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Computer hacks, bugs and attacks are all too common
Jaron Lanier makes no claim to be a psychic, but he knows what he knows. "Let me give you a headline that will happen in the coming weeks," Lanier, a computer scientist and author alternately credited with coining or popularizing the term "virtual...
Tags: Computer Networking and Internet, Architecture, Personal Data Collection, Media Industry, Software Industry
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Taxing Internet sales
Cal ThomasIn 1998 when President Clinton signed the bipartisan Internet Tax Freedom Act, which prohibited state and local taxation of Internet access and Internet-only services, the purpose was to promote the commercial potential of the Internet, especially for...Tags: Calvin Coolidge, Newspaper and Magazine, Cal Thomas, Harry Reid, Small Businesses
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American-US Airways merger could be end of rough 35-year deregulation era
"Two great airlines, one great future" was American Airlines' slogan as it walked the aisle with TWA a dozen years ago, heading into a future nowhere near as rosy as advertised. If that marriage truly had been something special in the air, American...
Tags: Antitrust Issues, Air Transportation Industry, JetBlue Airways, Restructuring and Recapitalization, U.S. Airways
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Liberal anger only makes Ted Cruz stronger
Rude, entitled, arrogant and off-putting: That's how the conventionally wise in Washington are characterizing Ted Cruz, the conservative new senator from Texas. It's a better description of the critics themselves, who are inadvertently helping Cruz...
Tags: Republican Party, Ronald Reagan, The Washington Post, Elections, American Enterprise Institute
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Groupon co-founder Keywell taping radio pilots
Serial entrepreneur and Groupon co-founder Brad Keywell has begun taping pilots for a new 30-minute radio program he would host on WBEZ-FM 91.5, a public radio station. "It would be a Saturday morning show," said Jessica Malkin, executive director of...Tags: Melissa Harris, Radio, Radio Industry, Invention and Innovation, Human Rights
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Do you have the nation's worst job?
Back in the day when I worked really hard at being a reporter, I would sometimes ponder how my job compared to other jobs. (OK. Those who know me may be wondering just how far back we have to go in order to see me working really hard, but let me make my...
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