taxi in news
RSS taxi in news10,000 mobiles per month left in London cabs
News Londoners are leaving 10,000 mobile phones in the back of black cabs every month - or almost three per taxi. The chances of getting lost gadgetry back in New York are less good however: only 66 per cent of the... [17 Sep 2008]
Digital wallet card launches in Dundee
News The card, intended to help avoid charges incurred by purchases under £10, is expected to be used for small items such as newspapers, food and taxi fares. Dundee City Council is set to launch the sQuid eMoney service with... [02 Sep 2008]
East England Ambulance rides the Airwave
News Before we started using Airwave, it wasn't uncommon to have signals from local taxi companies and Cambridge Ambulance Service bleeding into ours. The NHS has commenced the rollout of the Airwave secure digital radio... [24 Aug 2007]
BPO operations head into rural India
News Jacob said that when the BPO jobs are created, other types of jobs appear within a few months - with restaurants or taxi companies to serve the workers, further boosting the local economy. Indian services companies are... [09 Mar 2007]
Google Maps gets real-time traffic data
News According to Google product manager, Carl Sjogreen, the data is aggregated from several sources including road sensors, as well as car and taxi fleets. Google has added real-time traffic data for several major US cities... [01 Mar 2007]
Top 10: The best, worst... and craziest uses of RFID
News The high-tech bar is fitted with touchscreens so students can get a round in, order a taxi or even chat-up someone at the next table. Children: Japanese authorities decided to start chipping schoolchildren in one primary... [30 Nov 2006]
Strip clubs popular with biz travellers: Shock
News If it's going on expenses 46 per cent of respondents said they discover a new found generosity towards bag-boys, bell-hops, taxi drivers and waiters - and possibly exotic dancers. Shock, horror: business travellers are... [28 Sep 2006]
Students ditch booze queues with RFID pub tables
News And there's SMS and games for those who don't find being in a bar stimulating enough, while a taxi-booking service is also scheduled to go live shortly. Sharp elbows. Long queues. Being ignored by the barman when you... [20 Sep 2006]
Ofcom streamlines business radio licences
News The business radio licences are used by companies from high street taxi firms to oil companies, utilities, transport businesses and supermarket chains, as well as the emergency services. Ofcom wants to streamline the... [07 Jul 2006]
HP faces legal action over murdered worker
News HP could face legal action over the rape and murder of one of its Bangalore-based IT staff by a driver of a taxi firm used by the IT giant. Prathibha Srikanth Murthy, a 24-year-old technical support worker at HP's global... [06 Jan 2006]
Racist blog writer gets community service
News He and his mother had tried without success to persuade a Malay couple to let them board a taxi first, to rush his then one-month-old brother who was having breathing difficulties to hospital. A 17-year-old who was... [24 Nov 2005]
Open source nuclear bunker guards finance data
News The taxi driver is amazed there is a nuclear bunker tucked away near his house. I've been driving around here for 20 years," he tells me, "and I never knew about this place. Somewhere outside a remote village in Kent, we... [25 Oct 2005]
NTL 'f*ck off' tirade not grossly offensive, says judge
News The taxi driver who replaced NTL's customer service helpline's automated hold message with a four-letter tirade has been acquitted from Teeside Magistrate's court. Ashley Gibbins decided to replace NTL's 'thank you for... [09 Jun 2005]
Microsoft lets your IT manager wipe your phone
News Scott Horn, senior director of marketing for Windows Mobile and Embedded Devices, said: "It's for that taxi scenario. Just weeks after releasing its latest operating system for mobiles, Windows Mobile 5.0, Microsoft has... [06 Jun 2005]
Careless commuters put corporate data at risk
News The Taxi survey - 2005 was carried out by the Licensed Taxi Drivers Association and mobile security firm Pointsec among 131 of the capital's 24,000 licensed taxi drivers. Film star Hugh... [24 Jan 2005]
