This is gorgeous. Carouselis a desktop app for your mac that brings the Instagram viewing experience to your desktop. I say “viewing” because sadly it is primarily a read only experience with no ability to share photos (although I suppose that would defeat the excitement of knowing a photo was actually taken by someone’s phone). The good news is the app is aselegantas it gets and appears to do everything else the iPhone app does and more:...

Bringing the idea of hitchhiking up to date,Comutois a startup that lets users offer seats in teier cars for a price whenever they make a planned journey. It’s essentially ‘AirBnB for car journeys’, and according to new figures from the company, it’s growing fast. Launched in France in 2006 asCovoiturage(French for ‘carpooling’), the company has since expanded into Spain under the Comuto brand, and it hit the UK earlier this year asBlablaCar....

During the past month we have covered the never-ending saga over delays in updates to the WP7 mobile platform, writing for the most part under the impression that carriers were the final hold up. Why? Because Microsoft had informed the world that carriers always have to execute their own testing, and were thus the final arbiter in when an update could go live to its handset fleet. However, in a breaking newreport from WinRumors, we have learned that that might not be the case after all....

CarZenis a gorgeous iPad app for shopping and researching new cars. This app cleverly sorts models by body style, brand or price and offers in-depth reviews, stunning galleries, specs and information on every car. There’s a wide selection of brands to choose from including BMW, Mazda, Kia and Jaguar, which can all be organized by prices and features such as heated seats, hands free Bluetooth or hybrid/electric models. Whether you’re looking for an SUV, hatchback or pickup truck, CarZen can additionally factor in the body styles combined with price, brand and extra features you pick....

It seems that only functional products are dealt the blow of legal action. A case against the email spam filtering system employed by Microsoft and Yahoo in their email clients was today tossed from a Federal court. The judge stated that the plaintiff had not proven that it was more than the victim of normal market competition. At the core of the suit was Microsoft’s SmartFilter technology, something that a firm called Holomaxx claimed was acting unfairly by blocking its emails....