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RFID bag tags could save air-travel industry millions
News As Heathrow Terminal Five (T5) recovers from go-live glitches in its baggage handling systems, air travel IT specialist Sita has released research showing 42.4 million bags are lost in airports across the world. [18 Apr 2008]
Busy Airport Becomes an Agile, Secure, Unified Enterprise With Sun Portal and Communication Products
White Paper Athens International Airport has established a reputation as one of the most efficiently run airports in the world. Handling around 1.2 million passengers a month, the airport depends on state-of-the-art technology to ensure safe, efficient... [16 Apr 2008]
Protect Your Documents in Word 2007
White Paper People check e-mail from sidewalk cafes and airports; they review and share documents from multiple places at multiple points in their day. The world has changed since Microsoft Office 2003 was released several years ago. [11 Apr 2008]
Enhancing Airport Customer Service and Revenue with the Cisco Mobile Office Solution
White Paper Today’s airports are facing a major customer service problem. Most airports were struggling with frequent flight delays as a result of aging air traffic control systems and logistical problems with airplanes on the ground. [10 Apr 2008]
Cisco Airport Security Solution
White Paper In recent months, airports, airlines and governments have greatly increased their focus and investments in homeland security and, more specifically, airport security. Demands for security are placing unprecedented pressure on airport executives and... [10 Apr 2008]
London still wi-fi king of the world
News Find out which airports have the best internet connectivity - and share your own experiences - at atlarge.com. Airports are the hotspots of choice, accounting for almost half (45 per cent) of wi-fi sessions overall. [14 Mar 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 07.03.08
Round-Up People working in airports and other security risk areas are also unlikely to be breathing the free air for much longer. Are you worried that Windows Vista Service Pack 1 will render your precious applications unusable? [07 Mar 2008]
ID card u-turn by government
News Smith will also set out plans to issue ID cards to people working in airports and other high security risk areas from next year - a plan that has come under fire from trade unions. Silicon.com's A to Z of ID Cards [06 Mar 2008]
Biometrics the future for flying bliss?
News Semaphore - which checks UK-bound passenger details against databases of banned individuals and passenger name records to assess risk - and Iris - which lets fliers use automated iris scanning gates at several UK airports - have been used as part... [21 Feb 2008]
Photos: Heathrow bags RFID tech to end lost luggage
Photo RFID tags will still carry a barcode containing passenger information to be read by laser scanners at airports without the reader technology. Readers are also being trialled and used in several airports around the world, including Hong Kong, Las... [14 Feb 2008]
Heathrow T3 tackles lost luggage with RFID
News Stephen Challis, head of product development at BAA Heathrow, said: "In effect the bag is travelling with its own passport… improving the certainty around the operation and reducing the manual intervention that's required, which we believe will... [13 Feb 2008]
BAA calls on India for application management
News Airport group BAA, which owns seven UK airports including Heathrow, is outsourcing its software application management to India with LogicaCMG. Under the five-year deal LogicaCMG will deliver the outsourced services through a "blended" onshore... [12 Feb 2008]
Biometrics open up Heathrow Terminal One
News Biometric data is already in use for border control purposes at other airports in the UK, including Gatwick and Manchester Airport. Click on the links below to find out everything you'll need to know about biometric security. [08 Feb 2008]
Photos: Accenture gets touchy feely with its interactive wall
Photo The giant touch-sensitive displays can be used by many people at the same time and can already be found in Chicago and New York airports. There were shades of sci-fi film Minority Report as Accenture showed off its 'interactive wall' at its... [01 Feb 2008]
Vodafone cuts mobile broadband prices
News Vodafone said its UK network has a top downlink speed of 7.2Mbps - in London and major airports - and a maximum of 1.44Mbps uplink. But the 50 per cent price will only run for a limited 'promotional period'. [01 Feb 2008]
