Major Cities Archive

  • Review: Sprint Overdrive 3G/4G WiFi hotspot

    Review: Sprint Overdrive 3G/4G WiFi hotspot

    Posted on January 11, 2010 | No Comments
    Short Version: The Sprint Overdrive is a small, compact portable 3G/4G cellular data network to WiFi dongle designed for use by up to five people simultaneously. The best part is the ease of use and the worst part is the dearth of 4G networking outside of a few major cities. Features: Internal, replaceable battery Front OLED screen Sprint 4G [...]

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  • Apparently the writers of V have never used an iPhone in NYC

    Apparently the writers of V have never used an iPhone in NYC

    Posted on December 2, 2009 | No Comments
    AT&T is just plan awful in parts of NYC, but yet Tyler, from the ABC show V, managed to get reception on his iPhone high above NYC in a gigantic spaceship. How is that possible when I know for a fact that the iPhone is basically useless in most parts of the city? Rubbish.  Maybe, just maybe, [...]

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  • Amazon makes brick and mortar stores more irrelevant with same day shipping

    Amazon makes brick and mortar stores more irrelevant with same day shipping

    Posted on October 15, 2009 | No Comments
    Wow. Amazon.com is now offering same day shipping – same day shipping -- in seven major cities across the U.S. with more on the way in the near future. If you live in New York City, Philadelphia, Boston, Washington D.C., Baltimore, Las Vegas, or Seattle then you’re already in one of the same day delivery zones.

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  • Microsoft To Open Cafe In Paris To Build Windows 7 Buzz (Pics)

    Microsoft To Open Cafe In Paris To Build Windows 7 Buzz (Pics)

    Posted on September 23, 2009 | No Comments
    Microsoft is close to opening retail stores in several major cities across the planet, but in Paris they’re doing something special in anticipation of the real shops and the imminent launch of the Windows 7 operating system. Microsoft France has surprised inhabitants and visitors of the French capital with the public preparation of a genuine coffee shop / cafe situated in the heart of the city (47 Boulevard Sebastopol). The Windows Cafe, which will only be open to the public for a couple of weeks starting October 22nd, will boast a number of Microsoft products that visitors can play around with (Xbox, mobile devices and more) but they will not be able to purchase anything there besides snacks and drinks.

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  • AT&T 3G should now suck less in San Francisco and New York

    AT&T 3G should now suck less in San Francisco and New York

    Posted on August 21, 2009 | No Comments
    Since the launch of the iPhone brought a few million data-devouring 3G users onto AT&T’s towers, dealing with 3G in any major city was just a wee bit more efficient than sending a carrier pigeon. Well, things ought to be a whole lot better in San Francisco and New York now: like they’ve been doing [...]

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  • World ranking: New Yorkers pay lowest cell phone charges

    World ranking: New Yorkers pay lowest cell phone charges

    Posted on August 12, 2009 | No Comments
    I'm aware studies comparing cell phone charges generally have to be taken with a grain of salt (especially cross-country studies like the following one), but this one coming from the Japanese Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications is pretty interesting. It's not really a "world" ranking, but the ministry compared [JP, PDF] cell phone charges in seven major cities in Europe, Asia and the US. The result in a nutshell: New Yorkers are pretty lucky, Parisians aren't.

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  • AT&T doubles up the 3G in Atlanta

    AT&T doubles up the 3G in Atlanta

    Posted on August 11, 2009 | No Comments
    Throughout much of the country, AT&T’s 3G can be wonderful. Step into a major city, however, and it tends to grind to a halt. Here in my hometown of San Luis Obispo, for example, it soars; anytime I head to San Francisco or New York, however, it’s practically useless. Speeds are all over the place, [...]

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  • On the apparent Apple suicide

    On the apparent Apple suicide

    Posted on July 22, 2009 | No Comments
    Every once in a while you get a story so strange and horrible that it takes a while to sink in. I’m talking about the suicide of a Foxconn employee who was caught doing something with an “iPhone prototype” and jumped out of the window. Matt wrote: So the story goes that a 25-year-old man at Foxconn [...]

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