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InboxFeverhas a mission. It’s a mission to get you to like your email again. While we all suffer from inbox overload, this TechStars Boulder startup is coming up with ways to show you why you shouldn’t fear, but rather embrace, your email. The idea is that, since we’re inside of our email so much anyway, InboxFever can make it do things that it was never able to do before. Let’s say, for instance, that you have a document that you need printed....

Whileover in Tel Avivearlier this week, one of the startups that caught my eye wasuTest. This Israeli firm offers software testing for developers and technology companies via a worldwide network of testers who get paid to help work all the bugs and kinks out of apps. The company recently launcheduTest Express, an affordable solution for early-stage startups that allows them to get real-world professional testing for their mobile apps. Supporting iPhone; iPad; Android; Blackberry; WP7 and Symbian, startups can sign up and submit their app for testing by suitable people handpicked by uTest from its community....

The market for web, mobile, gaming and desktop apps has never been more hotly contested.Appsfor Apple’s iOS devices battlethosefor Android devices, games forXbox 360,PS3andWiibattle one another, and Apple’srecently launchedApp Store battling Google’sChrome Web Store. So many options, with as many areas for developers to monitor the good and bad with their creations. No doubt this leads to developers wondering how to test apps, in an everyday environment, to ensure the products they peddle to the public are top-notch....

Curating and sharing links on the web is a hot space.Delicious has relaunched, and services we’ve written about likeSnip.itare trying to get you to share all of your links on its service. Utopicgoes a step further in helping you discover and share links, videos, music, and pictures that are relevant to you with its brand new gorgeous design and visual bookmarking launch. Utopic had this to sayabout its new visual bookmarking feature:...

Utrecht, a small city in the Netherlands, wants to be the first region in the world with a bidirectional ecosystem. How? By using vehicle-to-grid charging stations. V2G technology isan efficient and cheap way to store and use renewable energy. The idea is simple: the transfer of electricity from cars to the grid. That way, the high-capacity storage of EV batteries doesn’t go to waste, while they’re not in use, and they can feed back into the grid as an alternative form of sustainable energy....