Lyft app gets smarter, syncs with your calendar

Just short of a month after Uber announced a new way for its mobile app to link with your phone's calendar, competitor Lyft follows suit with a similar update.

The gist is of the new feature: when you create events in your calendar, you also add an address for each event, and when you fire up the Lyft app before the event, it automatically snatches the address of your destination. Pretty simple.

First thing you'll have to do, however, is link the Lyft app to your phone's calendar. The app syncs only with your phone's native calendar app, meaning that, for ...