How is the digital age changing the way we access news and information in our daily lives? Think taxis.
First, Google has rolled out the beta version of a service called
Ride Finder, which gives you the real-time location of taxi cabs plotted on a city street map.
Once you've hailed a cab, you can get the latest news and check movie, restaurant, and other listings on a computer screen built into the cab. The free content is supplied by Entertainment Tonight, CNN, and SFGate, the online edition of the
San Francisco Chronicle, which has a
story on the new service.
The interactive taxi has been present for a while now...
