taxi in comment and analysis
India diary: Day ten - A classic offshoring facility
Comment The taxi driver explains that some buses are basically hired out to drivers in the morning for a fee. silicon.com reporter Andy McCue was on assignment in India from 14 to 23 April investigating offshoring efforts in Mumbai, Bangalore, Hyderabad... [30 Jun 2004]
India diary: Days seven and eight - Hot in 'Hi-Tec' Hyderabad
Comment I took a rickety white colonial-style Ambassador taxi from the airport, a journey that included one flyover after another as we passed featureless grey concrete buildings. The taxi passes India's number three IT company Tata Consultancy Services... [18 Jun 2004]
India diary: Day four - First impressions of Bangalore
Comment I've booked all my internal flights through India's Jet Airways - one of the private airlines set up to compete with the national airline Air India - and check-in at Mumbai's domestic airport is not the headache you would imagine, even though the... [01 Jun 2004]
India diary: Day three - Meetings in Mumbai
Comment He's already been on the road for an hour on his Kawasaki motorbike, which everyone gets around on in India, and it's another hour in the air-conditioned taxi to his offices. silicon.com reporter Andy McCue was on assignment in India from 14 to 23... [28 May 2004]
India diary: Day one - London to Mumbai
Comment Having converted some pounds to rupees at the government exchange in the arrivals hall and then booked a pre-paid taxi, I walk out of the terminal with my cab driver to be met with an overwhelming sea of faces that seems to be five high and at... [26 May 2004]
Tech inventors are really 'cooking on gas'
Comment But where else can you stand in a five-mile-long taxi line while watching burly guys with pliers compete for the title of the world's fastest car-stereo installer? By David Becker Meet anybody at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, and... [13 Jan 2003]
Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: ButterflyWings.com
Comment It isn't by accident that you can stand and wait for a taxi or a bus for 20 minutes, not see one, then five or six come at once. Chaos theory is a phrase bandied around all too often. But have you ever considered the various factors that led to the... [25 Jul 2002]
Laptop security: What you need to know
Comment One highly published case of an MI6 officer leaving his laptop in a taxi after a night out was a wake up call to users. Explaining a lost laptop to your boss is one thing, explaining just which files have fallen into someone else's grubby mitts... [23 Apr 2002]
Devil's Advocate: Is faster better?
Comment Years ago, data communications meant taking a box of punched cards in a taxi. Yet when it comes to IT skills and processes, there is a real argument that we should question our recent 'progress', argues Martin Brampton. [19 Mar 2002]
Convicts Reunited: A dot-con sensation?
Comment It probably won't be long before we are plumbing the depths with I-sat-next-to-you-on-a-plane.com or You-were-in-the-police-force-with-my-brother.com or I-was-your-taxi-driver.com, but guaranteed, the popularity of Friends Reunited will continue... [14 Jan 2002]
London cabbies - never short of opinions or mobile devices
Comment Taxi Newspaper, the trade rag for cabbies, and mobile security company Pointsec Mobile Technologies did a survey and they reckon it's quite a bit more than that. Umbrellas, handbags and even false limbs have ended up in lost property offices. [31 Aug 2001]
Silly season and a close online shave
Comment Come the autumn, they'll all be travelling everywhere by taxi, spending too much time in the Groucho and wearing Armani again. It means there's still three weeks or so to go before silly season ends and there are some sensible stories around to... [31 Aug 2000]
The year IT hit the headlines
Comment For the first time taxi drivers on discovering you work in 'the industry' refrained from asking you to 'spec up' a PC for their nephew. 1999 will be remembered as the year information technology went mainstream. [23 Dec 1999]
The IT girl: E-gad! It's an ecommerce launch
Comment Not that 'shoddy reception' was the phrase employed in the debriefing document shoved into his luggage as I packed him and his pony-tail into a taxi for Heathrow. Does anyone really listen anymore? Maybe it's a by-product of the Disinformation... [02 Jun 1999]
The Millennium bug - what's it all about?
Comment If you ever want to know what the state of the nation is, ask a taxi driver. And if Mr taxi driver is typical of the nation's awareness of the millennium bug, then the nation is in for a very big shock on 1 January 2000. [01 Nov 1998]
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