Do We Really Need This?
Yahoo! thinks you need the internet in taxicabs. Or at least people in New York do. They’ve started outfitting cabs (purple, not yellow) in NYC with Palm VIIs. Apparently, people like ’em.
You can’t do any real surfing with them. You can just get things like the weather, sports scores, movie times, stock prices, etc. Stuff you should really know in a cab. They’re tethered to the back of the driver’s seat and -this is the best part- if a thief tries to take the Palm by way of force, the tether is wrapped around the motherboard, and it shatters into a million peices. Awesome. I’m going to try to do that in a couple of weeks when I’m out there. Wish me luck.