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Datennutzung und Telefonie im Ausland – Zwei kleine Tipps

tomschlenkhoff — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 08:36:56 +0000

Für alle Datenreisenden und sonstige Republikflüchtlinge: Zwei Webseiten listen günstige Prepaid-Handytarife für die gängigsten Urlaubs-Länder:

SIM-Karten, auch für die Datennutzung

SIM-Karten international

Unbedingt vor dem Urlaub mal reinschauen. Es hilft am Urlaubsziel enorm, wenn man genau weiss, welchen Handytarif mit welcher Option man benötigt.

Einen schönen Urlaub wünscht das telfish-Team

Putting it out there – the business website for cab drivers

tomschlenkhoff — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 14:22:25 +0000

What a chore, besides riding the cab day in and night out, you have to take care of your representation on the interwebs, or do you? Is this a necessity or just wasted time? Would it help you to have someone else take over the chores of hosting and maintaining your site?

I am just considering offering this service to cabbies and the like on CabChap.com. Currently we have a very basic self-promotional page in place, like this: http://www.cabchap.com/en-GB/Taxi/Bolton/125410.

It should be like moving in to a fully equipped flat, minimum hassle is paramount.

Is this an interesting feature for you? What would you like to see there to help push your online presence? Any thoughts?

ARD Ratgeber Geld

tomschlenkhoff — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 10:37:24 +0000

Im ARD Ratgeber Geld vom Samstag, 20.2.2010, kam telfish zum Thema Handytarife Pre- oder Postpaid? zu Wort. Ein wirklich brillianter Beitrag :-)

Domain registrar spam – chinadns-tic.org.cn

tomschlenkhoff — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 08:16:09 +0000

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 and will lead to being more valuable as a spam address – resulting in more spam!

This is what we got from “David.huang” <David.huang@chinadns-tic.org.cn>:

(If you are not the person who is in charge of this, please forward to the right person/ department, as this is urgent, thank you.)

Dear CEO,

We are the department of Asian Domain registration service in China,we have something need to confirm with you.we formally received an application on February 24, one company which called “Fines Investments Group” are applying to register ” telfish” as Brand name and following Domains:

telfish.asia
telfish.com.hk
telfish.com.tw
telfish.hk
telfish.in
telfish.net.cn
telfish.org.cn
telfish.tw

After our initial examination,we found that the Brand name applied for registration are as same as your company using name and Brand name.These days we are dealing with it,hope to get the affirmation from your company.if your company did not authorize the aforesaid company to register these,please contact us as soon as possible.If your company and this”Fines Investments Group”as the same company,there is no need reply to us,We will accept their application and will register those for them immediately.
In addition,we hereby affirm that our time limit is 7 workdays. if your company files no reply within the time limit,we will approve the application submitted by “Fines Investments Group” unconditionally.

Thank you for your cooperation.

Best Regards,

David

————————————————————————————————–

David Huang(Mr)
Auditing commissioner
Tel: +0086-556-5186637
Fax: +0086-556-5337837

Website: http://www.chinadns-tic.org.cn

London cabbies fighting for survival?

tomschlenkhoff — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 21:10:07 +0000

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 the TfL do to make black cabs become relevant again? What can the trade do? Is it enough to go the extra mile? Should the TfL do away with the black cabs and lower the barrier of entry into the mobility market, and thereby lower the price of on-demand mobility?