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New York City promised subway cell phone coverage five years ago, and Transit Wireless took up the $46 million banner in 2007 — now, three years and a friendly British jab later, at least two major carriers are convinced it’s actually going to happen. Bloomberg reports that T-Mobile and AT&T have both signed ten-year agreements to let their customers access Transit’s subterranean wireless network, which should cover 277 NYC stations in the years to come. Critically, we’re still talking about coverage at just the stations, not actually on board — there’s till no word on when we can expect the tubes themselves to boost our sorry reception bars.

AT&T and T-Mobile will have cell coverage in NYC subway stations originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 02 Oct 2010 17:59:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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This article was written on June 05, 2008 by CyberNet.

Summer is just about here which means warmth and sun, long days, and maybe even a vacation. When you plan a vacation, most people hope for days that are free from rain and storms so that they can enjoy whatever it is that they’re doing whether it’s lying out on a beach or sightseeing. So what happens when someone’s well-deserved vacation is interrupted with rain? Well, usually nothing. You just have to suck-it-up and deal with the fact that no one has control over mother nature, unless you booked your vacation through Priceline.

Priceline has been around for 10 years now and to celebrate they’re having a “Dealstravaganza!” One of their deals is a Sunshine Guarantee where if you book your summer vacation and it rains, you’ll get all of your money back. This offer is good from June 2nd until July 17th, and the traveling has to occur between July 1st and September 7th. Not a bad deal, huh?

Of course there are a few “guidelines” that they have. It has to rain at least a half of an inch or more on at least half of your vacation days in order for you to receive a refund. For an 8 day vacation, it’ll have to rain for at least four days, or for a 6 day vacation it has to rain for at least 3 days. They’re not charging you a penny for this coverage which means you have absolutely nothing to lose if you were planning to book a vacation anyways.

Powering the Sunshine Guarantee is a service called WeatherBill which “provides affordable and easy-to-use weather coverage to protect revenue and control costs for the millions of businesses impacted by the weather.” Each Priceline customer taking advantage of the guarantee will get their own customized link so that they can track how much rain has fallen at their destination, online.

Priceline has probably looked at enough weather data thanks to WeatherBill to know that chances are, in most places, there won’t be at least a half of an inch of rain that falls for several days in a week’s time. This means they wouldn’t have to fork out too many refunds. The deal sounds enticing enough though that it just might lure-in more customers.

Source: TechCrunch

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Now that your AT&T-locked Samsung Galaxy S can occasionally find satellites, you’re probably hoping that the carrier kicks out some creamy Froyo as well, and it looks like that day isn’t far away — an unofficial but seemingly feature-complete Android 2.2 build is available for the Captivate right now. The faithful fiends at xda-developers have got build UCJI6 ready for download, which brings a mobile hotspot, Adobe Flash Player 10.1, the JIT compiler, Media Hub support, and a host of UI tweaks to boot. Instructions are available at the links below to walk you through the process, assuming you’ve already got root, have backed up all your files and are willing to take the risks in case this leaked build isn’t as official as it seems. See a video walkthrough of the new software right after the break.

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We’ve got another awesome week of Internet TV coming at you. We’re most excited about HBO’s Bored To Death but won’t be offended if you get more of a kick out of Stiller and Meara. More »

Most of what we’re seeing on the WHDI front has to do with getting basic HD video playback off of the laptop or out of the den and onto the TV, but video games are people too — don’t they deserve the same treatment? Galaxy seems to think so, and it’s building Amimon’s WHDI tech into its upcoming Galaxy GeForce GTX 460 WHDI Edition video card. A receiver adapter for plugging into your TV is of course included, and perhaps the mixed incentive of Blu-ray and DRM’d content streaming (WHDI is HDCP 2.0 compatible) and 1080p 60fps big screen shoot-em-ups will be exactly what PC gaming needs to sneak into the living room. We doubt it, but we appreciate the effort all the same. The card ships in October for an undisclosed, totally radical price.

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Upcoming Galaxy GeForce GTX 460 card to support WHDI streaming courtesy of Amimon originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 02 Oct 2010 10:06:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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