Ladies and gentlemen, we have 3G. #
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Police announced this afternoon that their investigation into what was initially believed to be a fatal fire on Rugby Avenue is now a homicide investigation. #
The Virginia Supreme Court has denied George Huguely’s appeal. His second-degree murder conviction will stand, WRIC reports. #
In a carefully worded story, and not citing specific sources, WTVR reports that forensic evidence belonging to Jesse Matthew Jr., the main suspect in the disappearance of Hannah Graham, matches forensic evidence collected during the investigation of Morgan Harrington’s 2009 murder. #
In the wake of Hannah Graham’s disappearance, and the evidence that came from private security footage, city officials are revisiting the question of installing security cameras on the downtown mall. #
Both Charlottesville Registrar Sheri Iachetta and former Electoral Board member Stephanie Commander have turned themselves in to the police on
foursix and four felony counts of embezzlement, respectively. #Ten years ago, the National Institutes of Health budget doubled and schools like the University of Virginia built massive new research facilities. A decade later, those buildings remain largely underutilized. NPR visits UVA in this story on the effect of federal binge and spurge spending in the sciences. #
In 2012, Council approved a new student housing complex on West Main—now some council members are questioning whether what they were shown matches what was built. #
The Architectural Review Board has approved a bike-themed mural on West Market, below the McGuffey Art Center, although at least one member expressed concerns that it might look like the bicyclists were riding away from Charlottesville’s downtown. #
City Police Chief Tim Longo is meeting with city leaders to work on protocols regarding the use of military surplus police weapons in Charlottesville. #
A 100-year-old Colonnades resident received military honors for her service in the WWII Women’s Army Corps #
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About time,
*sniff*
I miss TDMA.
Hasn’t Sprint had 3G in Charlottesville for over a year? I might be wrong, all the different acronyms can be confusing.
But I think the news today is that *AT&T* (and, therefore, iPhone users) finally has 3G in Charlottesville, but not that Charlottesville has 3G.
Yeah, I’ve been using Sprint 3G (EVDO RevA) for a couple of years here now. Richmond had it 3 years ago and you can now get it in Greene and Orange as well.
This is just the DP pushing an advertisement for ATT and Apple under the guise of news. I bet there will be some large ads for ATT in the DP over the next few days.
To be fair, the iPhone really is used very differently than other other mobile telephony-enabled computing device. AT&T customers rack up much greater sums of data transferred to their phones, because iPhones are designed to do significantly more than be used as phones, and because they’re so popular. There wasn’t much interest when Sprint got 3G service in town, because there are comparatively few customers to whom that will make any kind of a meaningful difference.
The iPhone is unique, that’s true. I can’t claim to use my BlackBerry the same way I would an iPhone. I can be an Apple-hater and say that’s because I do things like tether my laptop to my BlackBerry, which you can’t do with an iPhone, but I won’t :)
(I know, I know … You can tether the iPhone with a no-longer-Steve-Jobs-approved app or a hack.)
Just to be clear, I’m not an Apple-hater. I took a 12-step program for that years ago, and I’m fine, really I am. :)
stiil, ATT is not the first, not even close yet the DP just prints a corp PR piece