A MBTA trolley slammed into the back of another one in downtown Boston last night, injuring 100 and sending 49 to the hospital. In what MBTA officials called an outrage, the driver of the trolley that caused the crash admitted he had been texting his girlfriend at the time and didn’t see the red signal in front of him until it was too late. Thankfully none of the injuries were considered life threatening.

A company called WAAV and the MBTA (the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority) are putting Wi-Fi on commuter trains. This access will be provided for free. All of this will be completed in 2009. WAAV is using 3G connections, so that ought to be decent enough to get your Internet-fix while you try to ignore the more »