"There's far more scrutiny now, " says Max Belenitsky, an entrepreneur who spent the past two years trying to get investors to notice his Text-A-Cab smart-phone reservation system for taxis and limousines.
Last week, The Next Web reported that the company acquired the taxi-fetching app maker TXXI in an effort to roll out a TomTom cab-booking service, and today the site reports that the theory is now confirmed.
ENGADGET: TomTom confirms new taxi-ordering service, beginning trial rollout in Amsterdam
As the Glaubers' family mourned the dead and prepared to raise the couple's newborn, authorities were searching for a man and a woman seen fleeing the BMW that struck the livery cab, a law-enforcement official said.
After a few drinks, the couple got married at a drive-through chapel in a cab.
You know how hard it is for your parents if they have to get on a bus to go get a head of lettuce and they just came home from work and they have to get in a cab to go to a grocery store -- that's hard and expensive for them, right?
They compare pay-day loans to a taxi cab, which is cost-effective for short distances but probably not the best way to travel from New York to San Francisco.
Car owners may pay more to leave their vehicles and take a cab home than if they used a stand-in driver, Ji says.
For instance, since 2009 taxi-cab robberies, once a major concern for residents and tourists, have fallen by almost 50%.
Furthermore, CAT and Navistar has signed a new pact to develop a new cab-over-engine Caterpillar vocational truck which is expected to be sold globally by both companies.
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Yet, jump in a black cab -- London's iconic taxis -- anywhere in the city, and the driver will get you to where you want to go via the shortest possible route.
Along East 42nd Street, a yellow-cab driver pulls alongside the team to marvel at the cab.
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It was while moonlighting as a mini-cab driver during his student days that Mr Gill became involved in politics.
Andy was getting out of a cab and as he stepped onto the pavement, a one- dollar note flipped out of his trouser pocket onto the street.
Now it is time to make a choice: you could catch a cab south to TriBeCa and finish the night in a grown-up fashion or continue on to the West Village and Meatpacking District in search of your second wind.
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Ms. Chan takes a 10-minute cab ride each morning to get to the nearest train station.
Jasper itself, a five-minute cab ride from the hotel, is the proverbial one-horse town.
Accessible via a 10-minute cab or subway ride, Boston tops our list as one of the most convenient cities for layover touring.
But if you want to browse, head out to Queen Street in Woollahra, an affluent section in the southeast suburbs about a ten-minute cab ride from the city center.
Ram's heavy duty 2500 and 3500 models come with a rear-facing camera built into the center-mounted brake light behind the cab that can beam images of a trailer or the cargo in the bed into the truck's dashboard screen.
She fills a plastic cup with vegetables before hustling outside to grab a cab to the Soho Grand Hotel for a presentation by menswear designer and self-described "urban emperor" Dominic Louis.
Downstairs, a Chinese hipster in decidedly untraditional clothing was waiting in a beaten-up city cab, and soon we were hurtling through modern high-rise developments and shopping complexes.
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He believes the Internet is in the process of being geographically indexed (known as "geotagging"), which should allow for much richer applications, such as using your cell phone to find the nearest four-star hotel, get a cab and so on.
This quality is also found in a more widely available Shafer cab called One Point Five, signifying the winery's generation-and-a-half tradition.
Mr Malik, a cab driver, said the council-coordinated support at the centre had been "amazing".
The suit argues that the regulations violate a law that bans yellow-cab drivers from prearranging rides with passengers.
Most of the time you would just leave the bed cover on and the five-seat cab closed and use the truck bed as a mammoth lockable trunk that's accessible from either end.
On the cab side, there's the so-called Taxi Assistant, a TomTom-branded device which alerts drivers to incoming requests.
ENGADGET: TomTom confirms new taxi-ordering service, beginning trial rollout in Amsterdam
The crash killed cab driver Michael Boldon and a passenger, Washington state resident Sandra Sutton-Wasmund.
The lawsuit was the culmination of weeks of quiet discontent for yellow-cab medallion owners, who believed their investments had been undermined by a deal to broaden taxi access.
Some arrive by cab, via rides from strangers, and in one instance, a refrigerated semi-truck, which carried 80 evacuees.
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