Tech update: According to Gawker Manhattan McDonalds are competing with Starbucks by offering one hour's free WiFi access in their restaurants if you buy a combo meal (!). Here's the locations:

1560 Broadway (Times Square)
220 W. 42nd St. (near Bryant Park)
280 Madison Ave. (near Bryant)
18 E. 42nd St. (near Bryant)
427 10th Ave. (near Javits)
47 W. 57th St. (near 59th St. entrance of Central Park)
1271 Avenue of the Americas (Rockefeller Center)
724 Broadway (two blocks from Washington Square Park)
1499 3rd Ave. (and 85th St., Upper East Side)
1651 Broadway (and 51st St.)

Also on the tech front, turns out AOL TW is working on its own version of TiVo, apparently called Mystro; the interesting thing about this, of course, is that it's a content provider - and one of the big advantages of TiVo is that it filters out content - namely ads. Hence AOL might be seen either as cutting its own throat or having to respond before someone else cuts it for them.

If the AOL version is planning some way to insert new commercials - say when you pause a live broadcast - that might be a bridge to far for consumers. We'll see.