Verifone Transportation Systems adds new programming, including People.com, to the content available on the interactive mobile information screens within its payment and information system in New York City taxis. 6,500 New York City taxis habe been committed to agreements for in-taxi acceptance of credit cards.
VTS is also providing content from PMbuzz.com source of information [...]
Entries from June 2008
June 30, 2008
Verifone adds video content to NYC taxi payment terminals
June 30, 2008
Rehab set-back for bank robber
Rehabilitation for double bank robber and long-time solvent sniffer Anthony Trevor Grafton has suffered a setback with a conviction for stealing a can of spray-paint from The Warehouse.
Grafton told the police he took the $9.99 spray can because he was addicted.
Court News reporters have not seen him at court since he got onto a serious [...]
June 28, 2008
Cabbies want to be caged
Drivers fear for their lives after attacks
KRISTIAN SOUTH – Sunday News | Sunday, 29 June 2008
TAXI companies are calling for the government to make protective cages in cabs compulsory after a rash of violent attacks on drivers.
But Transport Minister Harry Duynhoven says he won’t introduce such legislation because the cabbies should be taking care of [...]
June 28, 2008
The text and the taxi driver. ‘I feel violated’
5:00AM Sunday June 29, 2008
By Michelle Coursey
It’s worth paying a little extra to guarantee your safety, says an Auckland woman targeted by a sleazy taxi driver.
Annette Brothers, who works in women’s magazine sales, said that a driver picked her up from the central city in late May after a night out with friends.
The man called [...]
June 28, 2008
Fares cop it at the rank
Fares cop it at the rank
5:00AM Sunday June 29, 2008
By Michelle Coursey
One of New Zealand’s biggest taxi firms is set to raise its fares in a move expected to trigger price hikes across the country.
Wellington Combined Taxis, the capital’s largest company, will raise its fares by 15c a kilometre to $2.75 in the next few [...]
June 28, 2008
Cabbie afraid to work the streets.
The Press | Friday, 27 June 2008
On the road: this Gold Band taxi driver is reluctant to drive Christchurch’s streets on Saturday nights because he fears violence.
Semi-retired taxi driver Barry is considering giving up his Saturday night job because of the trouble he faces on Christchurch streets.
Barry, 57, who does not want to be identified, [...]
June 27, 2008
Airline chief jokes about free sex on flights
Ryanair chief jokes about free sex on flights
By CRAIG PLATT – The Age | Friday, 27 June 2008
European budget carrier Ryanair has taken its cheeky reputation to new levels, with chief executive officer Michael O’Leary suggesting business class passengers would receive free oral sex on flights.
O’Leary made the saucy remarks during a press conference in [...]
June 27, 2008
Airlines to pay $667m in cargo scam claims
5:00AM Saturday June 28, 2008
Four international airlines have agreed to pay US$504 million ($667 million) in fines to settle charges they conspired to fleece consumers by driving up cargo shipping prices.
The Justice Department called the case one of the largest antitrust settlements in US history.
Associate Attorney-General Kevin O’Connor called the scam an “international price-fixing cartel” [...]
June 26, 2008
NZ Sharemarket takes a fall.
10:40AM Friday June 27, 2008
By Simon Louisson
The sharemarket dropped another 1 per cent today to a 2-1/2 year low, sparked by a profit downgrade by retailer The Warehouse and a 3 per cent plunge on Wall Street.
GDP data due today is expected to show the economy went into reverse in the first quarter and is [...]
June 26, 2008
OPEC predict further fuel price rises.
Oil prices could soar as high as US$170 a barrel over the next few months, the president of oil cartel Opec warned today.
Chakib Khelil, president of the group of oil producing nations, forecast that the cost of crude would rise to between USD$150 and USD$170 dollars a barrel this summer.
Algerian energy minister Mr Khelil said [...]
