They got the idea for Fetchmob after a friend in North Carolina desperately needed someone to pick up some Tylenol at a local pharmacy but did not have a way to get there.

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Fetchmob will let you go online to find someone in your neighborhood who can, say, pick up your medicines at the local pharmacy.

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Nine days after the guilty verdict, someone drove a pick-up truck through the glass doors of the DA's office at high speed, then backed up and roared off.

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Meeting someone via the web is also safer, they argue, than trying to pick up a date at random in a bar.

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Trent Taylor, director of customer intelligence at XO, said it isn't easy to find someone who can pick up the business context while understanding statistics and how to structure a project.

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Erik Akerboom, the Dutch national coordinator for counterterrorism, said part of the investigation is looking at whether the explosives were brought into Schiphol by someone else for AbdulMutallab to pick up later.

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