Seems like a new wave of domain-extortion spam is arriving at european shores. Usually this is weeded out, but somehow these seem to get through. The scheme seems to rely on

Confirming the email address once you reply to one of the mails
Selling domain grabbing ‘insurance’ so this ‘won’t happen again in the future’

This is another good reminder not to have you email client to download content automatically. The mail contains hidden flash-content that will be downloaded if you allow your email-client to do so. This is noticed back in China …

Just read the latest Dial-a-cab ‘Call Sign‘ by their Editor Alan Fisher and found the reason why a few London cabbies I met recently were so worried about private hire. By now I understood quite well that there are plenty of little quarrels going on between these two trades. But this fact – sheer numbers – really makes the point:
Number of licensed black cabs versus private hire vehicles
Sure enough, taxicabs look like a small minority now, not even counting all the other contenders like rickshaws and illegal touts. What can …

09-12-18 Update: Many people pointed out, that there is a remote chance that the coords really show the tester’s home location. To protect her/him I have jittered the address / the location slightly.
Our first iPhone App ‘CabChap’ for the global taxi dispatch cabchap.com has been released today to the Apple app store. The app makes it possible to find nearby cab drivers with a single click. It differs from other offers out there by contacting the drivers directly (in the near term), instead on having an intermediary – aka dispatch …

Just release my first iPhone App – to the Apple App store review process. To be exact, this is my second time in a little under 48h.
First try happened on tuesday noon, but after extensive testing I came across a mean bug I didn’t squash before. So on thursday noon I rejected my own binary and re-uploaded the new, corrected version (1.0.5).
Just thirty minutes ago I got a mail indicating a change in app status:
The status for the following application has changed to In Review.
This seems very fast to me, …

Just had the following questions shot at me at our Twitter account (@cabchap):
“Hi just wanted to say interested but how will it work for black cab drivers.I’m on radio taxi and fed up paying subs for not enough work. How big can this get and what benifit will there be to me and the passenger”
What is CabChap?
CabChap.com is a new service, that allows to share mobility. It basically works like a cab dispatch on steroids. Drivers and Passengers sign up directly with the service. A customer will be able to specify …