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ZipCar: Car Sharing/Renting With Your iPhone

— theappleblog.com — Perhaps one of the most amazing partnership announcements made during WWDC’s keynote yesterday is ZipCar ’s exciting... story of iPhone app design. It could easily fall through the cracks for a couple reasons: For one, hardware announcements took center stage, and for another, ... (more) ZipCar: Car Sharing/Renting With Your iPhone

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ZipCar: Car Sharing/Renting With Your iPhone
TheAppleBlog — ... yesterday is ZipCar’s exciting story of iPhone app design. It could easily fall through the cracks for a couple reasons: For one, hardware announcements took center stage, and for another, people who don’t live in major urban centers might not be aware of what exactly ZipCar even is. Most people will be familiar with the wacky science fiction future portrayed by The Jetsons, however, and that’s the sort of tech magic the two companies previewed yesterday. ...

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First Look: Zipcar app for iPhone hits the road
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) — Filed under: Cool tools, iPhone, First Look, App Review The company's teaser page still says "coming soon," but eagle-eyed reader Jason spotted the free Zipcar app [iTunes link] in the store today. We've been waiting for this app for quite a while, and it's exciting to see it in action. The app provides Zipcar members with a location-based search for nearby Zipcar locations, allowing them to drill down to the individual garages via a map view. Reserving a car is as easy as clicking one big green button, and ...

Zipcar App Finally Hits the Streets: Use Your iPhone to Find and Unlock Your Rental Car [IPhone]
Gizmodo — ... first step is out of the way, that's when you can use the iPhone to lock/unlock the car remotely. Zipcar says it's working to add a visual snapshot of car availability (like you get on the Website), greater flexibility in reservation changes, and more detailed instructions to your parking spot. If you have an iPhone (or iPod touch) and use Zipcar, this should probably be a no-brainer to test out. If you do, let us know how you go. [Zipcar (iTunes Link) | Zipcar] ...

Zipcar App Finally Hits the Streets: Use An iPhone to Find and Unlock Your Rental Car [IPhone]
Gizmodo — ... first step is out of the way, that's when you can use the iPhone to lock/unlock the car remotely. Zipcar says it's working to add a visual snapshot of car availability (like you get on the Website), greater flexibility in reservation changes, and more detailed instructions to your parking spot. If you have an iPhone (or iPod touch) and use Zipcar, this should probably be a no-brainer to test out. If you do, let us know how you go. [Zipcar (iTunes Link) | Zipcar] ...

Zipcar app pulls into the App Store
Macworld — ... According to Zipcar , a whopping 25 percent of its members own iPhones. So it was only a matter of time before the urban car sharing service released an iPhone app. Originally demoed during the ...