The D.C. time and weather hotline -- which, to our surprise, a whole bunch of city residents still cared deeply about despite the advent of the Internet -- has finally bit the dust. more ›

Good morning, Washington. More than 4,000 volunteers turned out for Beautification Day Saturday to help freshen up District of Columbia public schools, making it the largest group since the annual spruce up event was established in 2005. Volunteers planted flower beds, cleared weeds, picked up trash, and painted buildings at over 100 schools throughout the city. more ›

With vocal demonstrations, a strike by unionized Verizon workers has officially arrived around the D.C. region. more ›

UPDATE: Looks like we might have helped to blow the service's cover -- we tried calling the service again later this morning and were greeted by a message stating that Verizon would no longer be maintaining the service. Those of you who still use the service will have to keep your fingers crossed that another organization picks up the contract to keep the hotline alive. more ›

I remember once as a kid calling the time service over and over, on a bored rainy day. It seemed so funny to me that you could call a number and get the time of day, as if you couldn't just look at a clock. Well, it turns out you won't be able to do that, nor get the weather via hotline, anymore. more ›

According to a new report at the Investigative Reporting Workshop, people who live in low-income areas of Washington get far less bang-for-their-buck when it comes to internet service. more ›

The cavalcade of various financial issues plaguing D.C. Councilmembers continues unabated: the Washington Times reports that the phones at Ward 7 Councilmember Yvette Alexander's constituent services office on 2524 Pennsylvania Avenue SE were recently turned off because the office ran up $5,388.68 in unpaid phone bills to Verizon. more ›

Be honest: has anyone reading this used a pay phone at a Metro station -- or anywhere for that matter -- in the last couple of years? I'm willing to wager there aren't many of you who are nodding your heads. That said, it's hardly shocking when Kytja Weir reports this morning that pay phones inside Metro stations will likely soon go the way of the eight-track, the VCR and the cassette Walkman, floating off into the ether of technological Valhalla. more ›

At a tech event last week called Digital Capital Week, iPhone fans reportedly outnumbered Blackberry users by a margin of 10 percent, at roughly 400 out of the 4,000 attendees. Meanwhile, in the House of Representatives, there are reportedly less than 100 total iPhones out of more than 9,000 smart phones. Is there any one reason why Washingtonians would cling to their Blackberry's longer than their counterparts in say San Francisco or New York City? more ›

Last week we got a little too excited about the impending expansion of cell phone service in the Metro system, but now it's official: T-Mobile, AT&T, and Sprint Nextel customers should be able to use their cell phones inside Metro's 20 busiest stations starting first thing Friday morning (the Post says it'll be turned on at midnight, but of course the system will be closed by then). Verizon customers could already access their network inside the same stations, and they will continue to have that service after the change. more ›

Back in August, WMATA announced that the first phase of the Congressionally imposed expanded cell phone network inside D.C.'s Metro system would be completed by October 16. That date, by which time Verizon Wireless, Sprint Nextel, AT&T and T-Mobile customers should all be able to access their networks inside the 20 busiest underground Metro stations, is coming up fast. And earlier this week, it appeared as though some of the stations might already be wired up. more ›

As we reported in August, the District is moving closer to ending Comcast's virtual monopoly over cable television service in the city. Today the D.C. Office of Cable Television announced that a franchise agreement negotiated with Verizon for its fiber-optic service has been submitted to the D.C. Council for review. more ›

The Examiner reports this morning that over 60,000 residential Verizon customers in D.C. are getting anywhere from 20 cents to $2 refunded to them this month due to a widespread billing error that occurred in May. Turns out Verizon started billing for a rate increase for landlines a full month before the increase had been approved by the D.C. Public Service Commission. A total of 60,543 residential customers were overcharged to the tune of $66,173. more ›

Don't go storming in to Comcast's service center in Northeast to return your DVRs and modems just yet, but you may be able to free yourself from the cable provider's ubiquitous grip soon enough. more ›