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China’s top car booking app to rival Uber with fleet of Mandarin-speaking drivers across US

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by on June 13, 2014 at 10:36 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Asia

Uber is about to get some unlikely competition from China’s top private car app company. Yongche founder and CEO Herman Zhou tells Bloomberg that the firm plans to expand to New York and San Francisco, and later to other international cities. Yongche aims to rival the establishment by offering Mandarin-speaking drivers specifically for Chinese visitors to the US, who can book their car through a tie-in with Ctrip, the Chinese online travel giant that it counts as an investor. “Most Chinese don’t speak English and find it difficult to communicate with foreign drivers after they land in another country,” Zhou says. Yongche currently services 57 cities across China…

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Copy Bubble for Android is a brilliantly simple way of accessing copied items from your clipboard

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by on June 13, 2014 at 9:50 am
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider

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Bubbles for browsing, bubbles for translating, bubbles for every occasion. Yes, bubbles seem to be the in-thing on Android at the moment, as developers seek new ways to help you do things without being obtrusive. With that in mind, Copy Bubble is the latest bubblicious app to hit our radar, designed to deliver easy access to your clipboard at all times. Once you launch the app, you’ll see a movable bubble on your screen with a ’0′ in it. Each time you copy something, be it text or an image, this number will rise accordingly.     Tap on the bubble,…

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Apple warns some iPhone power adapters may ‘pose safety risk’, offers replacement

Jun13
by on June 13, 2014 at 9:32 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Gadgets, Product Updates

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Apple is warning that some users of its 5W European USB power adapter  – the one that shipped with the iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, and iPhone 4S between October 2009 and September 2012 – should swap the charger for a new one as the existing unit “may overheat and pose a safety risk”. The replacement scheme for affected chargers announced today and spotted by 9to5Mac will, of course, see all potentially affected adapters replaced free of charge. Apple notes that other 5W USB power adapters are not included in this scheme. The affected adapter is the A1300 model, which have…

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Nokia’s Lumia 1320 phablet goes on sale in the US, exclusively with Cricket for $279.99

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by on June 13, 2014 at 7:59 am
Posted In: Around the Web

It’s been a while since Nokia announced its Lumia 1320 phablet, but the six-inch device is finally going on sale in the US, where it will be available exclusively via Cricket. The phone is priced at $279.99 off-contact, and includes support for 4G LTE networks. We got hands-on with the device at Nokia World in Abu Dhabi back in October 2013 and were pretty impressed by its display and the fact that it doesn’t feel too bulky, despite being larger than regular Lumia models. The device is pitched firmly in the ‘affordable’ space, and is one of Nokia’s most-notable low-end devices. As well as a six-inch, 720p screen, the Lumia…

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