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FORBES: Dave Lerner on the New York Startup Scene

"We're disappointed, but I am hoping that the DOT will give us a firm date, " Mr. Van Bramer said.

WSJ: Bike Sharing Gets Into Gear

Interestingly, when we asked a DoT staffer for clarification, he reminded us that the agency hasn't issued a press release and said he wasn't sure where Wired and other outlets were getting their information.

ENGADGET: Transportation Department to propose mandatory black boxes in passenger vehicles?

According to a December 2011 report from the US Department of Transportation (DOT), 77% of the 6, 002 drivers surveyed admitted to answering phone calls on all, some or most car trips and said that there are only a few situations (such as bad weather or bumper-to-bumper traffic) where they would refrain from talking on the phone.

BBC: Should cars be a mobile-free space?

That's us, that's our blue dot, not some stock image, or animation ...

CNN: Astronaut sings Bowie's 'Space Oddity' in zero gravity

With the exception of small travel agencies, most of us dodged the cyberbullets of the 1990s and lived to chuckle about the overblown dot-com threat.

FORBES: Digital Rules

"Having a failed business in the US is like a rite of passage, " said Mark Simon, founder of dot.com networking company The Chemistry.

BBC: Only failures need apply