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Sometimes, I like a weird idea or two, especially if it involves two things that don’t fit together, like balloons and the internet or cargo ships and kites…. Remember whenX, a subsidiary company of Alphabet — yes, the parent company of Google — was working onProject Loon? It uses giant balloons to beam the internet to people living in remote parts of the world? In January this year, Loonwound downin response to an unsustainable business model....

We’ve heard about the lovefest between blockchain tech and mobility for ages, with lots of hype around peer-to-peer (P2P) payments for autonomous vehicles, vehicle sovereignty, and car-sharing. But how does it all work and why should we care? The most recent effort is byCar IQ. The company has developed the first payment network to allow connected cars and trucks to pay machine-to-machine (M2M) transactions. Vehicles can pay for fuel, tolls, parking, and more without a credit card....

Wajam, a Montreal-based startup is using the power of your social networks to enhance searching on engines like Google, Yahoo and Bing. The thought behind the service is this.. when you’re looking for information on a subject, you’d probably rather hear info from one of your friends instead of just blindly searching an engine like Google. So Wajam has taken that idea and has nicely added a social layer of information that shows up on a search page....

Wake up Volvo, MG already made the world’s first electric station wagon Forget the race to Mars, it’s the EV station wagon race that matters Ode to station wagons I’d like to make a controversial, yettrue, statement: station wagons are the thinking person’s choice.It’s the type of car you choose when you know you need some practicality, but recognize that buying something like an SUV is ostentatious and excessive. Station wagons are also farsafer for pedestriansand other roads users than SUVs in the event of a crash....

Let’s get one thing straight — Brands, you need to stop annoying your loyal customers. With that said, you also need to give them reasons for continued loyalty without spamming them. To make it a nice round number of three points, you also have to understand what that “Like” really means. Far too often, brands will see a Facebook “Like” as an open invitation to flood your wall with useless drivel all in the name oftop-of-mind awareness....