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Google Analytics Auto-Tagging

Lets say you want to track individual keyword performance, and separately track ad copy performance. If you’re using Adwords, you don’t need to place tracking code on the destination URL’s to track the performance of each keyword, and separate tracking for the performance of each ad. You just need to make sure you link your [...]

List of Top 10 Green Cars from Kelley Blue Book Website

Kelley Blue Book's Web site Kbb.com, which provides new and used vehicle information, today announced the launch of KBB Green, a new section designed to guide new-vehicle shoppers on environmental and fuel economy issues. Kelley Blue Book's new Green section allows new-car shoppers to obtain information about alternative-fuel technologies, such as hydrogen cars, diesel cars, hybrid cars, natural gas cars, electric cars and flex fuel/ethanol vehicles, as well as fuel-sipping gasoline cars. The e...

PCH, Chevy-Powered Brits Edition: V8 MGA or V8 TR6? [Project Car Hell]

Welcome to Project Car Hell, where you choose your eternity by selecting the project that's the coolest... and the most hellish! Yesterday, the combo of rotary weirdness and potential performance of the RX-7 scored a win over the Caprice's monster torque and bullying physique, according to the Choose Your Eternity poll. Today we're returning to a theme we saw in the very first Project Car Hell: British cars with engine swaps! How much does a project MGA go for these days? For that matter, what d...

g-tac turns iPhone into even cheaper performance meter

Filed under: Gadgets, TechOne day after spotting the "inexpensive" auto performance measurement tool Dynolicious for the iPhone, we've found another, and it's much cheaper. Liberty For One has released its own automotive measurement tool called g-tac, and its going for just $4.99. For less than half the cost of the Dynolicious tool, you get times and trap speed for the quarter mile, as well as times for 0-60 and 60-0. The g-tac utilizes the iPhone's (and iPod Touch's) accelerometer to determine ...

Dynolicious revs auto performance meter for iPhone, iPod

Is there no end to the ingenuity of iPhone app programmers?(Credit: Dynolicious ) Dynolicious appears to be the first automotive performance meter available for the iPhone and iPod Touch. The app utilizes the iPhone's built-in accelerometer to measure the performance characteristics of any vehicle it's placed into. Simply ...

Auto Racing | Rookie Jim Warn ready for Washington 500 at Evergreen Speedway

MONROE — During the week, Jim Warn is a full-time businessman specializing in high-performance auto parts for exotic sports cars like Lamborghinis and Spykers. On the weekend, he is a hard-char...

Ford posts $8.7 billion loss on asset write-downs

Ford Motor Co. posted the worst quarterly performance in its history Thursday, losing $8.67 billion in the second quarter. In this April 1, 2008 file photo, a Ford Fiesta is pictured in Cologne, Germany. Ford Motor Co. posted the worst quarterly performance in its history Thursday, July 24, 2008, losing $8.67 billion in the second quarter. The company also said it will retool two more North American truck and sport utility vehicle plants to build small, fuel-efficient vehicles, and it announced ...

Week in review: Reversal of fortune, but don't cast caution to the wind

This post is a guest contribution by Prieur du Plessis, Investment Postcards from Cape Town The end is nigh was what many despondent investors were starting to believe as the past week kicked off with volatile trading amid concerns that US regional bank IndyMac's demise was a harbinger of many more bank failures. Furthermore, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson's plan to rescue the Government Sponsored Enterprises (GSEs), Fannie Mae (FNM) and Freddie Mac (FRE), left investors unconvinced. The US g...

Sacramento-area auto dealers assess changed industry

Local car dealerships are closing, new-vehicle sales are down, gas prices remain high and a credit crunch is squeezing both auto dealers and consumers. Ferraris and Maseratis shine on the showroom floor at Niello Maserati dealership on Fulton Avenue in Sacramento. Despite weak sales and changing tastes in the auto industry, Rick Niello, president of the Niello Co., says, "I don't think unique, high-quality, high-performance cars are going away forever."

Opera Software releases Opera Mobile 9.5 beta

It's time that Opera Mobile got its due. Long overshadowed by Opera Mini--the light, server-fed browser for Java phones--Opera Mobile is a robust browser built on Web standards (and written with C and C++) that's known for delivering a full Web experience to Windows Mobile and Symbian phones. Yet even though Opera Mobile has made good as a much closer approximation of the desktop Internet experience, it traditionally hasn't received the same developmental attention as Opera Mini. With Opera Mob...