Skype has announced a new offer, one that those who find themselves celebrating New Years Eve in New York City may want to check out — free Skype WiFi. Yup, Skype will be opening up the WiFi pipes and allowing those celebrating to make some free calls. The free Skype WiFi will be available from more »

This should probably go without saying, however it is never a good idea to brag about a crime that you have committed. Of course, that being said, its probably a smarter idea to not commit the crime in the first place. But as we often see, that rules is broken quite often. Anyway, those who more »

AT&T has confirmed that there was a major service outage in the NYC area. Users were unable to make or receive calls, text, or access the internet, Smartphone users however still had texting. The company blames the outage on a “software update” and could not say when service will be restored. Users trying to make more »

The FCC granted Polytechnic Institute of New York University (NYU-Poly) a license to use WiMAX (also claimed to be 4G) aiming to help innovation from the school. On the first day WiMAX was turned on in the city, the school beamed data captured by roving cars to locate parking spots, filled and unfilled. The researchers more »

Today, Clearwire is firing up WiMAX, what Sprint refers to as its 4G service, in New York City, New Haven and Hartford, Connecticut, Tampa, Florida and Trenton, NJ. The company is still on track to bring their version of 4G to San Fransisco and Los Angeles later this year. Who’s ready for some moderately to more »

Image credit: Vistingdc.com If you have ever traveled in NYC subways, or any subway for that matter, then you probably know getting service underground is practically impossible. Carriers have been slow to adopt measures to add service underground, but two large American carriers recently signed 10 year agreements with Transit Wireless. AT&T and T-Mobile USA’s more »

For those of you in New York City, using a car service is about to get a lot more interesting. Venture capitalist Alex Mashinsky is outfitting 1,000 livery cars with free Wi-Fi. (For those not in NYC, a livery car/car service is different from a cab/taxi. Livery cars aren’t allowed to pick up people who more »

The rumors surrounding T-Mobile and the Samsung Galaxy S with Android have been floating around for a while now. That said, some are suggesting that the official announcement is coming soon and we may see a release on June 21st. Of course, with the earlier email teasing from Samsung it may be more realistic to more »

Samsung has recently sent out an email blast with an invitation to an upcoming event — one that is promising “the next generation in Android smart phones.” Unfortunately the details are pretty light and read as follows; Save the date!   Samsung Mobile brings you the next generation in Android smart phones.   New York more »

What can you really say here, you have a guy sitting in the subway wearing a Boba Fett helmet and playing the Zelda theme song on a accordion. Geekiness at its best, or maybe at its worst, I am not really sure but still it was fun to watch. Read [The Hollywood Reporter] Via [Boing more »