AT&T has offered free Wi-Fi in Times Square to its customers since May as part of a pilot program to test ways of shoring up its cell coverage in areas with heavy use.
The pilot was apparently successful, because AT&T has expanded the area of Wi-Fi coverage in Times Square and is adding more by Read More
Can’t be in Times Square when the ball drops? Here’s the next best thing! Or not.
The Times Square Ball App will stream a live video feed of the party in Times Square, with a countodwn clock and Twitter, Foursquare and Facebook Integration, reports Charlie White at Mashable.
The app is available for iPhone, Read More
2011 could be a rough year for AT&T.
The carrier is about to drop almost $2 billion to buy spectrum for its 4G network, according to CNET, which will be finished some time in middle of the year.
But it’s no help to the millions of iPhone users who put AT&T in last place Read More
Like all things not yet rendered effortless by an Apple product, cooking can be very hard. Impossible, even. Unlucky for us that certain times of the year make it hard to go without preparing elaborate suppers for our families and loved ones — Christmas, for instance. That holiday is close enough that we should now Read More
Desperately want an iPhone but can’t bear the thought of AT&T’s nightmarish phone service in NYC?
As Nick Saint notes, the new ZTE Peel case essentially transform any iPod touch into an iPhone running on Sprint’s new 4G network.
With the ZTE, any iPod touch can surf the web, run apps that need the Read More
Blackberries, once the ne plus ultra of business phones, have been taking a beating in the modern smartphone era.
Today Dell announced that it will be moving its 25,000 employees from Blackberries to its own Dell Venue Pro – a phone running the new Windows Phone 7 operating system.
(The move by Dell stings, Read More
The band Atomic Tom claims that their instruments were recently stolen. Luckily, the thief left them an amp and their smartphones.
Rather than despair, Atomic Tom decided to respond by rocking out with their iPhones on the subway.
For the record, dudes blasting medicore rock for four and half minutes of a crowded Read More
Jason Hirschhorn, former president of Myspace, prominent New York angel investor and beleaguered iPhone user, is tired of AT&T spotty service and ridiculous claims.
“AT&T sucks beyond language’s ability to describe how much it sucks. 4 dropped calls in 1 min. Keep selling your lies about how robust u r,” Hirschhorn tweeted this afternoon. Read More
As they have every few weeks for the last several months, a new story has appeared in The Wall Street Journal claiming that the iPhone will soon be available on Verizon. Perhaps jaded by these constant cries of wolf, New Yorker’s reactions were decidedly mixed.
“Before, if you wanted to have an iPhone, you Read More
A slew of new Wall Street firms are opening up to the iPhone, according to a report by John Carney at CNBC.
According to Carney, Credit Suisse is working letting its bankers use iPhones, Bank of America has begun phasing in the touch-screen smartphones and Wall Street law firm Skadden Arps lets its lawyers Read More
