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Bless My Bars, 30 More Subway Stations Are Getting WiFi!

We've been hearing whispers of this for months, but today New Yorkers' ability to tweet in transit expanded dramatically. Governor Cuomo has formally announced that 30 subway stations are getting wireless voice and data service, putting the grand total of stations with WiFi capability at 36. "This ... More >>

John Liu: Companies Get Free Pass on Parking Fines, While Regular New Yorkers Suffer

While regular New Yorkers get waxed with ever-increasing parking fines, big corporations often get a pass from the city, Comptroller John Liu says in a report released today. The city has failed to collect more than $9 million in fines from these companies. A Department of Finance official disputed ... More >>

All Along The File-Sharing Front: Will New York Affect The Rest of America?

Good news, New York file sharers! Verizon has apparently decided to protect your privacy, despite demands that the internet service provider ID subscribers suspected of copyright infringement. And the company's decision -- as well as other recent developments intellectual property realm -- might ... More >>

Will Subway Stations Soon Have Wifi?

Subway fares might be going up, The MTA's capital plan might be funded by debt, and the city's mass transit lines might be overrun by rats but hey, commuting in New York might not be all bad. Boingo and Transit Wireless will start hooking up wifi in the city's subway stations over the next five yea ... More >>

100 Most Powerless New Yorkers

A 'power list' for the rest of us

The Story Behind Last Night's Verizon Building 99% Projections

​For many Occupy Wall Street Day of Action participants, the highlight of the evening was a series of "bat signal" pro-OWS messages projected on a building bearing Verizon's name. Yesterday, the Voice's Steven Thrasher wrote about the series of Occupy Wall Street related messages on a build ... More >>

Cell Service in Subways Is Here! What Your Service Provider Has to Say About It

​Well, the much anticipated (or feared) cell service on subways is here, at least on certain subway platforms around New York City and, some are reporting, even in the friggin' tunnel. As of today, the cell pilot is live at the A, C, E at Eighth Avenue and 14th Street; the L at Eighth Avenue a ... More >>

Verizon Workers in the Bronx Take Picketing to Job Site in the Field (VIDEO)

Striking Verizon employees confront workers on a pole on Alexander Avenue in the Bronx​As the Verizon strike enters its fifth day, we've come across various picket lines near Verizon buildings, here in the East Village and around the city. But what we hadn't witnessed until today was a scene w ... More >>

Verizon Workers Strike In East Village

Esther Zuckerman​You could hear the blaring of car and air horns from two blocks away as Verizon employees continued their strike for a third day on 13th Street and Second Avenue, after the company and workers failed to come to terms on a contract early Sunday morning. The East Village's recep ... More >>

45K Verizon Workers Strike; 'Limited Disruption in Service' Expected

SCAB!​Forty-five thousand union workers for Verizon went on strike across the Eastern seaboard at midnight last night after labor negotiations faltered. Communications Workers America says that Verizon is demanding "more than 100 concessions from workers regarding health care, pensions and wor ... More >>

AT&T Buying T-Mobile For $39 Billion

Strange bedfellows.​And lo, one crappy service provider acquires another. AT&T announced today that it's buying T-Mobile USA for $39 billion from Deutsche Telekom. If the two companies fully merge, the deal will give AT&T another 46.5 million customers in America, pushing it way past Veriz ... More >>

I Hate Verizon

​After I pulled a lamp cord out of the wall the other night, my computer modem mysteriously stopped working. I called Verizon. (My phone still worked, somehow.) An annoying automated voice asked me a million questions, and I dutifully answered them. Finally, I got an actual person on the ... More >>

The "Paradise Garage Reunion Party" Is Coming To Le Poisson Rouge In April

​"I was there . . . at Le Poisson Rouge . . . in 2011." The utopian dance club Paradise Garage, ruled by legendary DJ Larry Levan with a velvet fist from 1977 to 1987, is perhaps the mother of all Aw Dude You Missed It NYC nightlife spots, its reputation among dance-music fiends undiminished a ... More >>

"Historic" Storm on the Way; New York City Is Cracking Down on Everything; Countdown to the Verizon iPhone

​• There is a "historic winter storm" headed across the U.S. that meteorologists predict will last through Wednesday and impact a third of the U.S. population, primarily in the Midwest and the South. New York may get an ice storm (currently a "snow to wintry mix" is predicted for Tuesday). B ... More >>

Fela! Remix Contest Is A Great Chance To Complain About Crap AT&T Reception

​Nearly a year later, the Fela! Broadway musical is raging on, thanks to some combination of rapturous reviews, Jay-Z's largesse, and inspired stunts like a new remix contest inviting you to have your way with the cast recording of "I.T.T.," a/k/a "International Thief Thief," which in its orig ... More >>

Will the Verizon iPhone Ever Exist? Reply Hazy, Try Again

Or...not so much.​Like the mystical Fountain of Youth, or magical unicorn horn dust, or pots of gold at the end of rainbows, the Verizon iPhone remains one of those entities that would be oh-so-wonderful, 'twere it ever to be. Unfortunately, even though as many as half of current Apple/iPhone ... More >>

Video: World's Biggest Dodgeball Game in New York City Last Night, Shaming War Strategists and Veterens Everywhere

​Via NBC New York, here's footage of what was apparently the world's largest dodgeball game ever, which took place last night at the 69th Armory. You remember the beginning of Saving Private Ryan, when they invade Normandy?

ATTN Verizon Wireless Worker Who Put M.I.A. on Hold: You're On Her New Record

​Us mortals are driven insane by the endless hours we spend on the phone with Verizon tech support, trying in vain to get our cable fixed. Not M.I.A. According to a recent Q A with Rolling Stone the singer, whose record as-yet-untitled third record comes out this summer, extracted payback from ... More >>

Quick Hits

​AOL is now Aol, and has lost its Running Man logo because "he represents the communications products and that's not the whole new AOL," says Aol's Maureen Sullivan. The Running Man is rumored to drowning his sorrows with Mr. Zip.

New York City's Struggle to Take Down Illegal Billboards

City government and citizen vigilantes wage a losing battle against Clear Channel and illegal ads

Can You Hear Me Now? Verizon, Unions Settle

The FISA Bill: Why Did Four of NY's House Democrats Fold?

Hold That 'Sweetheart' Verizon Cable Franchise, Advocates Warn

Lobbying Albany: A Recession-Proof Industry

Uncovered! The Manhattan Phonebook's Gayest Page!

Letters

Fame Is Such a Drug. . . I Mean, Drag

And trying to be famous? Let me tell you about it.

Cheap Choice: Daffy's Beetlejuice Shoes!

Shop Till You Flop

Welcome back to Gwen's dollhouse, as garish and luscious as ever

Congress and Judges Gagged

Arlen Specter and a CIA torture victim know: Only the Oval Office decides what the law is

Next Tel

The days of old-fashioned phones are numbered. People, it's time to VoIP.

Sleepy Hollow

Waking up is hard to do, though eventually they do and embrace life

Phony War

How the Phone Unions Turned Verizon's Strike Preparation Against It

Showdown for the Phone Union

With a Nod From Washington, Verizon Prepares for Battle

Music

VoIP a Dope

The Current Quality of Low-Cost Calls Over the Net

Darknet Blues

The Music Industry Makes Peace With Big Software—at Dial-Up Speed

Phone Sexy

Should I Buy a Snazzy New Cell Phone?

Broadbandits

The Present Moment

Sonny Rollins at the Summit

Hip-Hop Goes Commercial

Rappers Give Madison Avenue a Run for Its Money

Spying Behind the Shield

NYPD 'Deep Throat' Alerted Black Cops to Surveillance

Telecom for Dummies

Touring the Media Industrial Complex

The Favors Candidate

Comptroller Hevesi’s Business as Usual

Verizon Gets Earful

Customers Squawk Back Over DSL Service

Knitting at Home

NY Mirror

Nation

Milling at the Mall

Cracking the Code of Ethics

Upstart Computer Pranksters Scramble Hacker Unity