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...last haven of ring tone-free peace is gone. The Massachusetts Bay Transport Authority (MBTA) has announced that it will install a wireless communication network inside the tunnels of the MBTAs subway system. According to the MBTAs press release, [T]he project, to be introduced in phases, begins at the subway platforms at Park Street, Downtown Crossing, Government Center, and State Street, and includes the tunnels connecting those stations. Once the wires are in place, a transportation system that made the world a little smaller will be made a lot louder. While Amtrak trains have solved this problem by designating...
Still, there is a possible upside to cell phones in subways. MBTA spokeswomen Lydia M. Rivera said in an interview that the wireless network is an additional measure of security for commuters, nicely complementing the If you see something, say something poster campaign. Transportation Secretary Daniel A. Grabauskas said in the release, It also has a critical public security aspect to it, as passengers will have increased ability to report safety issues to the appropriate personnel...
...program that piggybacks off of iTunes, you can raid your neighbors’s music collections without Big Brother knowing. Yes, OurTunes is still totally illegal, but there’s only one other drawback: you only have access to the music on the files of people on your wireless network. Better hope your entryway isn’t into Yanni...
...dazzled the crowd with piano wizardry and powerful vocals. Nokia boss Jorma Ollila is hoping she can do for the N91 what rocker Sheryl Crow did for the iPod. The stylish device holds 3,000 songs and doubles as a phone. It can fetch tunes from mobile networks and wireless Internet connections; iPod can't. But the $910 price will probably turn off consumers unless mobile operators subsidize it. IDC analyst Paolo Pescatore wonders if the show was a "last gasp" effort to regain hipness. Nokia lost market share a year ago, but although it's been scratching back lately...
...behind you simply by looking at a dashboard monitor. (A camera mounted just above the rear bumper provides the video stream.) We found the navigation system to be slow and confusing but loved extra-cost options like the heated front seats ($540) and the rear-seat DVD system with wireless headphones...