In a move which should surprise no one who's been following along, New York City livery car groups successfully won a bid yesterday afternoon for a temporary restraining order against New York City's smartphone-based ...
Wireless access in New York City's subway system has so far been limited, at best : two GSM carriers, one WiFi provider and six stations does not a full network make. Coverage is getting much wider, however, as Transit ...
Taxi hailing apps have had a rough time getting started in the Big Apple. After the city's Taxi and Limousine Commission (TLC) put the kibosh on Uber and subsequently blessed e-hailing apps with a 12-month test, the TLC ...
New York City's full-on EV taxi blitz may not come until late this year, but the metropolis is taking its first tentative steps into that electric world as of today: it's deploying the six Nissan Leaf cabs promised as ...
The New York Hall of Science is hidden away in the Corona corner of Queens, N.Y., a primarily Hispanic neighborhood below the city's 7 subway line. Pupuserias and bodegas line pedestrian-filled 111th Street as it leads ...
In Engadget's ongoing quest to get you, our lovely readers, as up-close-and-personal with the electronics of the future, we're partnering once more with Panasonic to take a couple ( hundred ) of lucky readers into an ...
There were numerous intriguing designs in New York City's Reinvent Payphones competition, but only one can win the vote. The people have made their choice: NYFi will serve as the inspiration for street-side payphone ...
The payphone. Despite how connected our world has gotten in the last decade or so, the majority of the 11,000 payphones in NYC stem from a 1999 contract. Due to expire and renew in October 2014, the city's Department of ...
The Big Apple already has a candy coating of free WiFi, between permanent providers , transient offers , and the million coffee shops ( et al ) with a router inside. If there were any dead zones left in the city, GOWEX ...
Sprint was clearly up to something good when we noticed LTE in parts of San Francisco . It turns out that this was just the tip of the iceberg -- the carrier has since confirmed that it's also flicking the switch in New ...
