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  • Cabbies protest against booking problems (ABC via Yahoo!7 News)
    A group of Canberra taxi drivers went on strike for four hours this morning in protest at Canberra Cabs' new automated phone booking system and other problems with the dispatch system.


  • Polygamist leader finally caught (Vancouver Province)
    Polygamist leader Warren Jeffs is pictured in a Las Vegas police booking photo after his arrest late Monday. Meanwhile, in B.C., his rival Fugitive polygamist leader Warren Jeffs, who has hundreds of followers in B.C., has been arrested on a Nevada highway with $50,000 in cash, 15 cellphones, three wigs and a police scanner.


  • Booking service sues Northwest over fees (bizjournals.com via Yahoo! Finance)
    Amadeus Global Distribution System, a service used by travel agents to book flights, is seeking an injunction that would block Northwest Airlines Corp. from imposing a fee on tickets sold through the service.


  • Booking service sues Northwest over fees (Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal)
    Amadeus Global Distribution System, a service used by travel agents to book flights, is seeking an injunction that would block Northwest Airlines Corp. from imposing a fee on tickets sold through the service. A similar action taken against American Airlines failed in court last week.


  • Booking service sues Northwest over fees (Memphis Business Journal)
    Amadeus Global Distribution System is seeking an injunction that would block Northwest Airlines Corp. from imposing a fee on tickets sold through the service. A similar action taken against American Airlines failed in court last week.


  • Fontana PD to try booking, jail service (Daily Bulletin)
    FONTANA - The Fontana Police Department will implement a pilot program to contract out its booking, jail and transport services.


  • SAN FRANCISCO / Tour bus companies settle price-fixing suit (San Francisco Chronicle)
    San Francisco sightseeing bus companies have agreed to pay $3.1 million to settle a price-fixing suit by hotel concierges and bellmen who accused the companies of illegally agreeing to cut the commissions they pay for booking customers. The settlement,...


  • Should you book a Caribbean cruise during hurricane season? (USA Today)
    Inside the Deals column: Every summer, we see the photos: dark gray skies, palm trees bending at 90-degree angles with their leaves whipping in the wind, liberated roofs taking to the skies. With such dramatic images of tropical storms, it's no wonder people think twice about booking a cruise during hurricane season. But is it really in your best interest to avoid all Caribbean cruises between