Will you be able to play Angry Birds the next time you hail a taxi in NYC?

This afternoon, Mashable ran a story that quickly growing start-up Square is proposing the installment of iPads in New York City taxies to the New York City Taxi & Limousine Commission. The iPads would replace the currently consumer-loathed offering, Taxi TV, and would open up possibilities for many major app providers on the iPad, such as Foursquare, Twitter, and of course Square.

Not only do I think this proposal is a great step in the right direction for taxi service in NYC, it is also a fantastic example of what tablets are truly becoming. After seeing some statistics about the publishing costs The New York Times has, I have been adamant about finding a way to get iPads into the hands of all newspaper subscribers, to keep journalism alive and growing, and to force true engagement integration between news organizations and their readers. This seems to be another step in the right direction.

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