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Steve Jobs has been lauded for making the smartphone truly accessible for everyone, incorporating subtle features that help the visually impaired or those with disabilies operate Apple’s iPhone, iPad and iPod devices. Last weekend, Stevie Wonder made a special appearance at a nightclub in Los Angeles, ad-libbing to his songs, playing some other tracks but also taking some time to stop the music to give a speech on helping others with disabilities....

It’s often shown that you can’t keep an entrepreneur in one place for very long. It’s with that in mind that we shouldn’t be surprised to see the names Steven Fruchter and Jake Gold popping into headlines. The two have worked together atStickamfor some time, and now come together in an attempt to shake up the online buying research process with a site calledGet.com Get.com is simple in its execution, but that’s part of the genius behind it....

Are you still driving a gas-powered car? As you no doubt know by now,it’s YOURfault that the planet is getting hotter and the world is ending. But don’t worry, there’s a way you can assuage some of that guilt without even leaving your car. In fact, please stay right there, in your car. Amsterdam and Helsinki are two of my favoritesmart cities.Researchers are looking for local car drivers to help make these cities more liveable....

We’ve been expecting an Apple Car for a while now, but it might happensometime this decade. Personally, I’m very satisfied with the few Apple products I own (my MacBook Air, for instance) and I’d be curious to see what the fabled Apple Car would look like, although I’m not really dying over it. I can imagine though that for those of you who absolutely love the brand, an “iCar” would be like the ultimate must-have, and in that case waiting in uncertainty is torture....

If you, like us, have been chomping at the bit for a final release ofFirefox 4then it seems like February might hold the answer to your prayers. Whilewe reporteda few months ago that the release wouldn’t be until 2011, it seems that the news was dead on. According toPCWorld, only 160 bugs separate the Firefox team from a final release of version 4. In the coming weeks, then, the Firefox development team should aim to clear those hurdles by the beginning of February and ship a final version of the open source browser before the end of next month....