T-Mobile Officially Launches 3G Network

Even though T-Mobile’s 3G network has been up and running for a few days now in NYC, they were modest about it until just now. Fear not, folks, they talk up data plenty in the press release, though you’ve gotta have a phone that can take advantage—and those are few and far between. They promise [...]

GTA IV Leaked Online

GTA IV, supposedly the biggest thing in the history of modern electronic entertainment, has been leaked on the Internet. If you’re one of the lucky ones with a modded 360 and a copy of the game, disconnect from Live before you play it. Rockstar is watching out for people who go online with these before [...]

NYC’s “automotive Bermuda Triangle”

Cars are mysteriously dying in a few block radius around New York City’s Empire State Building. Many people think the phenomena is caused by the 30+ transmission antennas on the spire of the 102-story building. Officials from the building deny there’s a problem.
From the New York Daily news: “’We get about 10 to 15 cars [...]

Invaluable US Government Docs To Be Scanned and Posted

Public.Resource.Org and the Internet Archive have jointly announced an effort to scan a large number of historical U.S. government documents, including congressional hearings, the Congressional Record, and the Federal Register, known as “govdocs” in the library trade. The venerable Boston Public Library signed up as the first contributing library.
“Govdocs” is part of a 2-prong effort [...]

Awesome Pacman Bathroom

This is a great idea… I’d love to tile the bathroom, and if I ever do maybe I will do something like this.

Sunday News Roundup

Self-Cleaning Underwear - No Washing For Weeks
Thank you Jeebus… New fabric developed by the U.S. Air Force uses nanotechnology that “both kills bacteria, and forces liquids to bead and run off.” The scientists have used the fabric to create underware and t-shirts, and believe it will “revolutionize” the sports apparal industry - not to mention [...]

Happy New Year to the faithful Vashnyc Readers

Well, 2006 is about to come to a close, and there has been a ton of wireless news and important events that affect all of us in a *wireless way* this year.
2007 should hold more of the same, with wireless transforming the way we do just about everything - from connecting over the Internet to [...]

ClickStar: Morgan Freeman to the Rescue?

Downloading movies was supposed to be fun, easy, painless, and the next big wave of digital entertainment. Not quite. How about not even close? No service has really lived up to the ideal standard we had in mind. So far the whole movie download service idea is as big a flop as light-up shoelaces, or [...]

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