Somethings you cannot make up. The Buckingham Palace UBERK terror driver's Sat Nav, took him to the wrong place.


A suspected terrorist accused of attacking police with a sword outside Buckingham Palace had originally intended to go to Windsor Castle - but his satnav led him to a pub of the same name instead.

Mohiussunnath Chowdhury, 26, sparked a major terror alert when he was arrested outside the royal residence last Friday.  
 
The Uber driver was found with a samurai sword in the passenger footwell of the blue Toyota Prius he was driving.

He was sprayed with CS gas and wrestled to the ground as the palace was locked down. Three police officers suffered cuts and bruises to their hands.

But according to new reports, evidence taken from the scene appears to show Chowdhury had left his Luton home with Windsor Castle typed into his GPS. 

He arrived in Windsor at about 7.30pm - having left an hour earlier - but his satnav had taken him to The Windsor Castle pub rather than the royal residence.

It is also reported that Chowdhury drove past the Victoria barracks in the town two minutes later, before ultimately setting off for London.

He then drove around the Mall - the road between Buckingham Palace and Trafalgar Square - in a loop until he stopped next to a police van and was soon arrested.  

Yesterday, Chowdhury appeared before a district judge at Westminster magistrates' court in London.

The British-born suspect, who is of Bangladeshi heritage, is accused of one charge of preparing terrorist acts, which carries a maximum life sentence.

Mark Carol, prosecuting, said a note to Chowdhury's sister Sneha, 23, was found by detectives. It read: 'To my dearest sister, By the time you read this Insha'Allah [God willing] I will be with Allah.

'Do not cry and be strong. The Shaheed [witness or martyr] will take 70 members of his family with him to paradise. I will take you there Insha'Allah.
'Tell everyone I love them and that they should struggle against the enemies of Allah …The Queen and her soldiers will all be in the hellfire, they go to war with Muslims around the world and kill them without any mercy.'

Chowdhury, flanked by two plainclothes officers in the reinforced glass dock, nodded as the note was read out. He spoke in soft, well-spoken English to confirm his personal details.

No members of the Royal Family were at Buckingham Palace when Chowdhury was arrested. The Queen was at Balmoral.

Footage from the scene showed a car parked near a police van, in the shadow of the Queen Victoria monument on Constitution Hill.

Mr Carol said the car stopped 2ft from a marked police vehicle, arousing the officers' attention. 'Officers approached the vehicle and the male driver reached for a large sword from inside and shouted 'Allahu Akhbar' several times,' he said. 'The officer struggled with the individual and sprayed him with CS spray.'

Police seized mobile phones and a laptop from the £230,000 home Chowdhury shares with his parents and sister in a Luton suburb. They arrested a second man, aged 30, in west London, who was released without charge.

According to one online profile, Chowdhury's sister is a graduate and a recruitment consultant.
The family's former neighbours in Uxbridge, west London, said both siblings went to Church of England primary schools.

Chowdhury was remanded in custody and ordered to appear at the Old Bailey on September 21.

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Uber is to have designated drop-off and pick-up areas at all of Westfield's 33 shopping centers in the United States.

The two firms announced a partnership that places the locations on the Uber app, meaning shoppers can see where exactly they can be picked up and dropped off.

The firms said the Westfield malls will each incorporate between one and 10 Uber pick-up and drop-off stations. Some locations will also include kiosks with Uber customer service employees.
"Uber wants to make transportation seamless for everyone, everywhere, but we can't do it alone," said Amy Friedlander Hoffman, Uber's head of business development and experiential marketing, in a joint press release Thursday.

"So we're excited to work together on this first of its kind initiative aimed at delivering the best possible experience to our riders when they're going shopping, dining or catching a movie," she added.

Uber Lounge

The Westfield Century City shopping mall in Los Angeles is to be the first to include an Uber lounge where shoppers can wait for their taxi "in style".

The lounge will form part of a $1 billion renovation of the shopping center due this fall.
"We are thrilled to be able to partner with Uber to leverage modern technology in a way that makes it more convenient than ever to travel to and from any Westfield destination," said William Hecht, Westfield's chief operating officer in the United States.

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A Florida cloud computing provider named Uber Operations is suing its dial-a-ride namesake for trademark infringement.

In a suit filed Tuesday to the Northern Florida US District court, the owners of Uber Operations claim their name's similarity to Uber Technologies Inc has caused them to receive thousands of unwanted calls, faxes, emails, and even legal summons intended for the (in)famous car-hailing service based in San Francisco.

Located in Tallahassee, Florida, Uber Operations provides cloud and hosted IT services for regional health care providers and small businesses in Florida and other Southeastern US states. The two companies applied for and were both granted trademarks in 2011-2012 to use the Uber name in their respective businesses (Uber Operations for IT services and Uber Technologies for ride-sharing).

Unfortunately, Uber Operations says, the growing popularity of the Uber ride service has left the public confused about the two companies and it's now impacting its IT business.

"Even state governments with whom Uber Operations does business have experienced confusion with Uber Tech. The Attorney General's office has sent Uber Operations legal notices, writs and other court documents, employment verification requests, and other important documents and records intended for Uber Tech," the filing [PDF] reads.

"Due to the nature of these documents (which include court orders and documents with deadlines and potential fines or other penalties for failing to respond), Uber Operations has not been able to ignore them, and has had to repeatedly advise attorneys and government agents that Uber Operations is not Uber Tech."

Not the Uber you're looking for

If that wasn't bad enough, Uber Operations says the bad publicity Uber Tech has gotten for itself has led the cloud Uber to be on the receiving end of bad reviews and death threats from disgruntled Uber car service passengers.

"As a result of this saturation, the public has come to assume that Uber Operations' services are really Uber Tech's or that Uber Operations has become somehow connected to Uber Tech, and Uber Operations has thus lost the value of its trademark, ie, its corporate identity, and control over its goodwill and reputation," the complaint reads.

"Indeed, the constant business interruption, and fear of violence, have caused Uber Operations to remove information from its website, change its phone system to go straight to voicemail (so that only calls directed to Uber Operations are returned), and remove signage and other indication of the location of Uber Operations from its offices to prevent Uber Tech drivers, prospective drivers, and customers from showing up at Uber Operations' offices."

The complaint claims that the ride-sharing Uber's use of the names "Uber" and "Uber Xchange" overstep Uber Tech's trademark agreement and infringe on the one Uber Operations holds. Now, they want damages to help cover the costs associated with being the "other" Uber.

They claim one count each of federal statutory trademark infringement, common law trademark infringement, and common law unfair competition. They also ask that Uber Technologies' trademark be invalidated.

Uber Tech declined to comment on the complaint. ®
Source: The register.co.uk