SF News Digital, Smartphone Driver’s Licenses are Coming to California Allegedly “in the coming weeks,” you’ll be able to upload your California driver’s license and present it digitally in Apple Wallet or Google Wallet, that is, if you consider getting your ID out of your wallet to be some terribly time-consuming task.
SF News Deadbeat Riders Swipe Cabbie's Cell Phone It's hard enough being a San Francisco cab driver (don't believe me? Then check out driver Kelly Dessaint's gripping Examiner column), do people really have to pile onto the profession by refusing to
SF News Bus Driver Attacked By Man Stopped In Mission District Transit Lane A bus driver who attempted to document a transit lane violation was attacked Thursday evening, and police say the suspect remains at large. According to the San Francisco Police Department, the incident happened
SF News Deplorable Teens Beat And Rob Witness To Downtown Misbehavior A man who sought to document the dreadful behavior of a group of teens was beaten and robbed Sunday, as the kids were less than pleased to have their errant acts caught on
SF News Camera-Shy Driver Attempts To Flee SF Collision, Fails A motorist ended up behind bars Friday, after he allegedly crashed into another driver then tried to swipe that driver's cell phone. It all began at 1:13 Friday afternoon, according to the
SF News Underground Muni Riders To Finally Be Blessed With Cell Phone Service As long as there have been cell phones, riders of Muni's light rail system have been afflicted with the scourge of no bars (now dots, I guess) any time the vehicles plunged beneath
SF News Bike-Riding Thief Tries To Steal Motorist's Cell Phone, Crashes Instead A cyclist who allegedly tried to steal a cell phone through the open window of a car was arrested Wednesday night, after he lost his balance and wrecked during the crime. It all
SF News Texting Man Pauses On Mission Corner, Is Beaten And Mugged A Mission District pedestrian was robbed Tuesday evening, when he paused in his travels to text. It was 10:45 p.m. when the 25-year-old victim was walking through the area of 21st
SF News Selfie-Taker Stymied By Brazen Phone Snatch A young woman's selfie session turned larcenous Saturday, when a man suddenly tore her call phone from her grasp. According to the San Francisco Police Department, a 23-year-old woman was at the idyllic
SF News Brave Vigilante Thwarts Cell Phone Theft On Muni A brave bystander thwarted an all-too-common crime yesterday, after a thief picked the wrong day to steal a cell phone. According to the San Francisco Police Department, at 8:58 Wednesday morning a
SF News Alleged Gunpoint Mugger Of Bus Passengers Just Couldn't Quit Muni The irritating phenomenon of Muni bus bunching — in which multiple buses run right behind one another, instead of evenly spread out the way riders might prefer — both helped and hurt an alleged mugger
Arts & Entertainment Meanwhile, In Berkeley... Pete Cat snapped this shot of a gate in Berkeley used to crucify old mobile communication devices. Gruesome stuff.
SF News AT&T to Buy T-Mobile for $39 Billion Poor-reception phone carrier AT&T will purchase T-Mobile from Deutsche Telekom for a cool $30 billion, it was announced over the weekend. While a regulatory review is in order, AT&T
SF News The Great Bernal Hill Antenna Battle, David Campos, NIMBYism, & More Bernal Heights needs -- yes, needs -- antennas. Why? So we can use our beloved mobile communication devices with little to no interruption at a moment's notice, that's why. What's more, area supervisor
misc Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Mission Street's Dancing Cellphone Todd Lappin of Telestar Logistics (via Laughing Squid) posted this joy-inducing clip of a cell phone -- a Metro PCS phone, to be exact -- delivering garden fresh grooves on Mission Street. That
SF News Newsom Endorses Cell Phone Radiation Warning Labels Always one to look after your health, Mayor Gavin Newsom is backing legislation that would requite cell phones to "post radiation levels next to each phone in a font at least as large
SF News TXT MYMUNI KTHXBAI Since your Editor's cell fell down the toilet while chatting and evacuating a pressing stream of urine at the same time, we cannot try out this allegedly nifty feature. But according to Amit
misc Ludacris Ho Map Gangsta rap aficionado and geography major Stefanie Gray has conveniently mapped out all of Ludcris' hos from his ditty "Area Codes." Awesome. Here's just a taste of some of his ho-based area code
misc SFist Reader Photo Challenge! If you already have a photo of drivers with phones: great! And if you don't: could you keep your eyes peeled, and your own cameraphones poised? Tip us off by leaving a comment
misc Macworld Expo 2008? Can you feel it? The Macworld Expo 2008 approaches. Shhh, you might scare it. When your editor worked in the consecrated halls of Macworld, we were surprised by the ilk that attended the
SF News A New Brand of Canvasser Outside Whole Foods This young lady (the one on the right) was asking for "change for BART" while toting a fetching little purse outside of Whole Foods on 4th and Harrison. (We apologize for the horrendous
Arts & Entertainment SFist Photo: Say G'Bye to All These Phone Chargers But that will change soon. Our corporate overlords have teamed up with the government of China to standardize cell phone chargers. Say hello to your little friend - it's called micro-USB. Cho kawaii!
SF News Crank 911 Calls The man, known as “Nomar” has made around 2,000 calls to 911 since March. Calls, it seems, are made in San Francisco, but are about incidents in Vallejo. These faux-mergencies include suicide
SF News NextBus, NextMus-tache What we find especially amusing about this defaced photo is that when Selma Blair recently admitted her flaws to the public, she mentioned bleaching. Blair confessed the following to UK mag, Dazed and
Arts & Entertainment JT Leroy/Laura Albert, Back In The News Okay, there's a very troubling article in today's New York Times about a road trip with Laura Albert (reg. req'd.). Laura Albert is, of course, the 41-year-old mother and local literary scenester who
