Tag: TICKET

It wasn't all that long ago that getting the hot ticket meant waiting in line for hours (or days) outside of your local Ticketmaster affiliate, all the while exchanging tales of geeky fan appreciation with other would-be concert attendees. These days, everyone's just a click away from the show of a lifetime -- and a click away from exorbitant prices, thanks to many scalping laws having been ...

We're used to the iPhone saving people from things like boredom, and darkness, but according to one TUAW reader, the iPhone saved him from a traffic ticket. A man identifying himself only as Paul informed TUAW via e-mail that, as he was recently driving along a snow-covered road somewhere in the Midwest, he was rear-ended by another driver, damaging both vehicles. When an officer arrived at ...

Here's yet another great idea for an iPhone app. Trapster, from a company by the same name, enables iPhone owners to avoid one of life's many perils: the speeding ticket. In theory, at least. The free app follows a driver's location as a dot on a map. If said driver passes a police officer lurking by the side of the road with a radar gun, they can tap the iPhone to mark the location as a speed ...

Electronic ticketing lets you view, change, and process your reservation at kiosks, online, or over the phone -- all without having to worry about losing the ticket. However, 16% of travelers still insist on receiving mailed paper tickets ahead of time, forgoing e-tickets for the security of good 'ol paper. Bad news for that later group: paper tickets are set to be retired by June 1 of 2008, ...