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Mmm… the smell of gratis wireless broadband in morning. Even Starbucks agrees, you just can’t beat it. One smell we could stand to live without is the stench left on the Long Island Rail Road and Metro after a few too many party people hitch a ride following a long Sunday in the city pub, but having free access to the world wide web while riding will make the act of dealing a whole lot easier. All jesting aside, NYFI (described as a “well financed neutral host WiFi provider”), has recently submitted a proposal to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority of New York (MTA) to “build and operate a new WiFi network on Metro-North and Long Island Rail Road trains.” Unlike similar ideas thrown around in the Big Apple, this setup won’t require users to be subscribers of a cable service or any of the many religious cults going around these days. Head on past the break if you actually care to know how it’ll be financed (hint: you don’t), and be sure to push whoever you have to push to ensure this gets passed. Got it?

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NYFI aims to implement free WiFi on Long Island Rail Road and Metro originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 16 Jun 2010 10:27:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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AT&T killed all-you-can-eat wireless data. Which sadly was inevitable. But if I’m paying for bytes like I do for minutes, why don’t I get rollover data, too? More »

World spends 4.82 million hours playing Google Pac-Man on launch day originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 25 May 2010 18:13:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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See that screen there? That’s from the minty fresh beta 4 of iPhone OS 4.0, which was just released to developers moments ago. Unless our eyes are badly mistaken, that’s an option to setup internet tethering on AT&T, something that WWAN warriors have been waiting for since… oh, forever. We’re downloading the new build as we speak, and we’ll let you know if we find anything out. Oh, and don’t get your hopes up too high — AT&T proclaimed that it was “still waiting on better network performance” before enabling iPhone tethering just three weeks ago.

Update: There’s a video of the screens after the break, just in case your belief was temporarily suspended for any reason. Thanks, Jerish!

Update 2: Well, this is interesting — we just updated an iPhone 3GS in Chicago, and we’re not seeing the tethering option. We’re guessing this is a glitch or just a mismatched carrier setting file, since so many others are seeing it, but we’ll do some digging and see what’s up.

Update 3: Okay, we’ve got it sorted — all it took was a quick network settings reset. Thanks, Gray!

[Thanks, Pete]

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iPhone OS 4.0 beta 4 includes AT&T tethering option originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 18 May 2010 21:56:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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The battle for minds is well and truly on now, and if there was any doubt that Google and Adobe are cozying up together to take on Apple, let it now be extinguished. TechCrunch is reporting that the latest version of Android — you know, the one with the 450 percent performance improvement and buttery smooth Flash playback — will, upon updating, guide you to visit a selection of Flash-enabled websites. Countering Apple’s list of iPad-ready (aka Flash-free) websites, this is clearly intended as a showcase of the Adobe software’s capabilities. Ironically, a sizable number of the sites on the list are “mobile optimized,” meaning you won’t be hitting their full desktop versions (which doesn’t quite mesh with the idea of “the full web experience”), but it’s still likely to cause some consternation over in Cupertino. All we’re wondering now is how much Adobe had to pony up to ensnare such a prominent promo position, but things like that don’t stay secret for long.

Android 2.2 will invite you to visit ‘Flash-enabled’ sites, rub Apple’s nose in it originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 18 May 2010 03:07:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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