Don’t know much about the details, but word is over in China that the China State Construction Engineering Corp. has bagged a $100M contract to provide subway ventilation ‘in New York’s Manhattan area’. A great follow-up to our $710M contract for the new New Haven Line Metro-North cars – now over a year late – [...]

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MTA does not allow third-party websites to use its Metro-North Map on their sites without paying for an expensive license agreement. In some cases, they have even given third parties a hard time about posting their own original artwork transit maps. So, we made our own original Metro-North map. Enjoy!

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The Greenwich Apple Store on 356 Greenwich Ave opened just an hour ago. As usual, there were throngs of excited retail employees applauding the tony residents into their lair of consumer nirvana and giving away T-Shirts. There was a line, but it only lasted about 40 min, at which time the crowds started to thin [...]

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[Update: I just got word minutes ago that all three suspects have been identified and arrests are imminent.] [ Update: Conductor Bobby was on the train at the time and files this report on Derailed (scroll down a little to '11/16'). ] MTA has released surveillance photos of the three women wanted for questioning in [...]

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Verizon and AT&T are now locked up in a full-blown marketing (and legal) battle over AT&T’s network. Verizon started the volley when it launched a series of ads comparing Verizon’s 3G network to AT&T’s via their 3G network coverage map – Verizon claims to have 5X the coverage of AT&T by square miles. AT&T struck [...]

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[Update - looks like this is a known issue which may be limited to the 64-bit version] The new Microsoft Office 2010 Beta is out, and is free to download from Microsoft’s web site. Probably the biggest change is that Office finally comes in a 64-bit version. This is the version I tried out as [...]

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Milford CT police have released the a dash cam video of one of their cruisers driving recklessly prior to killing two teens last summer. Although there is no gore or bodies in the video, its shocking and infuriating to watch. The video was recorded by the dashboard camera of Milford Police Officer Rick Pisani as [...]

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