VeriFone Systems Inc. (PAY), the largest maker of credit-card terminals, was sued by Creative Mobile Technologies LLC for more than $250 million over an agreement to place advertisements on screens in New York taxis. Creative Mobile was founded in 2005 in response to the city’s mandate that cabs install passenger information monitors, …
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VeriFone Sued for $250 Million by CMT
TLC BOARD APPROVES NEW RULES ALLOWING SMARTPHONE E-HAIL...
Appy Days Ahead for Taxi Passengers! The New York City Taxi and Limousine Commission (TLC) today announced the passage, by its Board of Commissioners, of a pilot program that would allow passengers to “e-hail” a New York City taxicab via downloadable smartphone applications (“apps”). Five votes were necessary to approve …
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Relax, tap an app and hail a cab By David Yassky
Hailing a cab in Manhattan can be a tricky art to master. It could be made easier by smartphone apps. New Yorkers use smartphone apps to learn when the next bus is coming, find the gas station with the cheapest price and make dinner reservations. How about finding a nearby …
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Checker Marathon: Should the Taxi of Yesterday Return?
Would-be passengers got a good look at the Nissan’s NV200 minivan — New York’s “taxi of tomorrow,” during its recent stint on display at the New York International Auto Show last year. As expected, opinions positive and negative have rolled in, and more than a few people are waxing nostalgic …
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Safety Last
I was very disturbed to read about a fatal accident involving a Yellow Medallion Taxi at the corner of 69th Street and First Avenue in the 9-18-12 edition of the NY POST. If one is to believe the newspaper report, a pedestrian was crossing against the light, while the cabbie …
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DeLorean Time Machine NYC Taxi
This is one designer’s idea of what a DeLorean time machine would look like as a taxi. This is one of the most brilliant ideas we’ve seen in a long time. It’s incredible that nobody came up with this before, but we’re sure glad that someone has now. But let’s …
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Taxi Documentary Brings Cabbie Grit and Wisdom
To be a good taxi driver in New York, you have to look ahead and think ahead. “You see a garbage truck in the street, you don’t go into that street. It will take you 20 minutes to get out of there, and time is money.” Another tip: ”When you …
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Halt new cabs: suit
Cab owners want the “Taxi of Tomorrow” gone today. Two groups of cab owners filed suit against the city yesterday in a bid to slam the brakes on the Taxi and Limousine Commission’s plans to replace the fleet with Nissan NV200s starting in late 2013. The Committee for Taxi Safety …
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Lights Out for NYC Taxi “Off Duty” Lights
The question of “is that taxi free or not?” could soon be easier to answer in New York. On Thursday, the city’s Taxi and Limousine Commission voted to do away with the off-duty lights. Here’s a visual: Whereas once there were two categories of lights, with four combinations: The city’s …
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NYC taxis running out of fuel as gasoline lines grow po...
Update: Sunday morning, Taxi and Limousine Commissioner David Yassky announced that 80 percent of the city’s taxi fleet was working on Saturday night, and that the number of taxi rides citywide has continued to rise. New York taxi and car service companies started pulling vehicles off the road as service stations …
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Times Square After Hurricane Sandy
Times Square pretty empty for 9:00pm on a Wednesday Night.
Hurricane Sandy Alert – Stay Safe!
New York City cabs on a flooded street in Queens after Sandy struck the US East Coast! Stay off the roads and add us on Facebook! http://www.facebook.com/YellowCabNYC
NYC cabbie John McDonough and Brit star Richard Hammond...
Richard Hammond’s introduction to driving a Yellow Cab in Manhattan turned out not to involve driving at all. The British TV star and John McDonagh, the veteran New York cabbie who was going to help Hammond launch his hack career, watched their Crown Victoria overheat as they inched across the …
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Cabbie is stripped of his license for pushing rider int...
Cabbie Sidikiba Diallo claims fare Glenn Yonemitsu was too drunk to give destination, vomited, cursed and spit A taxi driver was stripped of his license Tuesday for tossing a passenger into a busy midtown street in a brawl caught on videotape. Crazed cabbie Sidikiba Diallo can be seen ripping his …
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Square Likely To Announce Cabs Partnership With New Yor...
After closing out a deal to implement its technology in Starbucks’ stores across the nation, mobile payment company Square may be taking to the streets to find more revenue streams. Literally. Late Monday, private company expert PrivCo said that the San Francisco-based startup and the city of New York will …
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NYC Candy Cab driver gives out free candy
Now that’s one sweet ride. Taxi driver Mansoor Khalid is on a one-man mission to cheer up New Yorkers with a daily dose of candy.
New York Taxi Commission Sued by GNYTA
New York’s Taxi and Limousine Commission was sued by taxi-medallion owners over claims the agency is trying to reduce medallion values in retaliation for a challenge to a plan to allow car services to pick up passengers. The Greater New York Taxi Association, a group representing the owners of about …
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TLC approves ‘Taxi of Tomorrow’ in 5-2 vote
The Nissan NV200 will have a rooftop view and a phone-charging station, but is not wheelchair accessible The city’s Taxi and Limousine Commission gave a green light Thursday morning to controversial “Taxi of Tomorrow.” In a 5-2 vote, the TLC, as expected, adopted rules mandating all but a small percentage …
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App-arently, It Could Be Easier to Grab a Cab
NYC Taxi App
