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DDS Wireless International Inc.’s Taxi business unit, Digital Dispatch, has entered into an agreement under which Taxi Video Guide Inc. (TVG) will provide paid video media content for DDS’s SmartCabTM mobile media service that is used in 1,200 New York City cabs. The agreement provides for a potential $1 million in minimum fees to DDS [...]
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New York City Taxi – NYC TAXI A federal judge dealt another setback on Monday to the Bloomberg administration’s two-year effort to convert the city’s yellow taxi fleet to gas-and-electric hybrids from the ubiquitous Ford Crown Victoria. Judge Paul A. Crotty of Federal District Court in Manhattan said a plan to financially penalize taxi owners [...]
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When the city rolls out its share-a-cab program this fall, the solitary taxi ride — and its private, if jerky, moments of contemplation — will yield to the more intimate world of communal travel. Those seeking a preview of this new regime would do well to seek out its little-known antecedent: a small taxi stand [...]
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This cabby is extra careful to avoid potholes — a big bounce could ruin a potential masterwork. Fabio Peralta has turned the back seat of his yellow cab into an art studio for his passengers, and has commissioned thousands of works. As soon as a passenger hops into his Crown Vic, Peralta, a 40-year veteran [...]
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A pedicab driver crashed into a yellow cab after crossing the Williamsburg Bridge into Brooklyn on Wednesday morning, injuring the pedicab driver and two of his three passengers, the police said. The accident occurred at 7:26 a.m., a witness said. “The pedicab was just coming off the bridge fast,” said the witness, Frank A. Williams, [...]
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