Empire Drive-In arrives in Manchester as part of the Abandon Normal Devices Festival, pulling into Hulme Street's Q-Park car park and slapping a pay-and-display ticket on its windscreen.
Motorists now need a permit or a pay-and-display ticket to park in the area.
When I powered it up near Times Square, the app displayed discounted tickets at the B. B King Blues Club, a $25 gift certificate for $2 for a host of nearby restaurants, and several hotel offers.
Dice will also have a customer service team behind the scenes and visible reps at every gig it's sold tickets to ensure it can knit together any logistical cracks — such as, for instance, a ticket buyer who's phone has run out of juice meaning they can't show their ticket (a Snapchattish feature of Dice asks the user to hold their finger down on the screen to display their ticket).
In the commotion after yesterday's victory, a longtime Hofstra fan named Rich Weksberg from Brooklyn was displaying his ticket stub from that 1977 loss in Philadelphia.
Probably coincidentally, the government has again cast an icy eye on the way Web sites are displaying total ticket costs, particularly when "fuel surcharges" -- these fare increases based on trip mileage that began to appear a year ago -- are involved.
The council-run car park at Sudbury in Suffolk penalises people who do not display a ticket on their windscreen.
Last year, 2,851 people were fined £25 by Babergh District Council for failing to display a ticket on Station Road long stay car park.
Masabi Masabi's 'Ticket Machine in your Pocket' is a rail mTicketing application that allows commuters to simply and securely purchase and display tickets.
For the consumer, once deployed, it enables them to book and display tickets on their mobile without having to stand in line, while for transit agencies, Masabi is talking up the speed of deployment and low cost for the system compared to traditional offerings — the usual cloud promise — thus its use of the word "agile".
