In fact, a few customers are already using Skobbler's iPhone app, which combines road maps, local points of interest and social networking profiles into an iPad driving tool.

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Whatever the mechanism, disclosure is a tool for driving companies towards more sustainable performance.

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Training, and especially the trend for greater use of informal learning methods, is driving the workforce enablement groups in HR to hastily ping some social computing tool or technology, and later seek out how it should be integrated with the rest of the company.

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Whether you're lost in the woods, driving through a city, or circumnavigating the globe, the compass is the tool that will help you find your way home.

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In the same way people in Google cars become more comfortable with AI driving than with human drivers, Kurzweil predicts that computer intelligence will become a reliable tool that people will become dependent on.

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FracFocus was never designed to serve as a comprehensive data gathering tool for activist groups whose real desire is to shut down the most significant economic-driving engine America has seen over the last decade.

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