in-flight
RSS in-flightMobile phones key to paperless air travel
News GPS-enabled handsets could also be used to track passengers in airports, with the potential to save airlines $600m by cutting flight delays, with messages sent to wayward passengers to move them to gates more efficiently, Sita explained. [20 Jun 2008]
ISPs face fresh threat from file-sharing laws
News I is for In-flight A music industry survey this week found that the average teenager's MP3 player contains more than 800 illegally copied songs, and separate research commissioned by the music industry body British Phonographic Industry showed 6.5... [18 Jun 2008]
Thin clients switch on digitally excluded
Case Study I is for In-flight A project to tackle digital exclusion in socially deprived regions of Merseyside has brought free plug-and-play internet access to hundreds of homes with children of school age. The project is aiming to give digitally excluded... [17 Jun 2008]
Stolen music still big with MP3 generation
News I is for In-flight More than half (58 per cent) admitted to copying music from friends' hard drives, while 95 per cent have copied music in some way. Feargal Sharkey, former-Undertones frontman and now CEO of British Music Rights, said it's clear... [16 Jun 2008]
Christopher Martin
CIO Profile The new technology backbone means customers will have unprecedented access to flight details and other travel related info but it is also the foundation for further international expansion of the growing company. [11 Jun 2008]
Working With the Enterprise Service Bus and Mediations, Part 1: A Guide to Create, Deploy, and Test Mediations
White Paper Mediations are part of the smart infrastructure that enables better application integration by processing in-flight messages as they are being delivered from producers to consumers. This paper introduces the concept of mediation in the context of... [03 Jun 2008]
A Practical Introduction to Message Mediation - Part 1: The Basics of Message Mediation
White Paper A mediation is used to process in-flight messages. This paper series explains message mediation, one of the new capabilities of IBM WebSphere Application Server V6. Part 1 covers the basics of message mediation, including how to develop, deploy... [03 Jun 2008]
Business travellers demand more tech
News She said in a statement: "The future growth of business travel is inextricably linked to the advancement of technology - be that technology to book travel, in-flight technology or payment technology. There was an increase in the number of... [02 Jun 2008]
Automated Fulfillment for Leading German Travel Agent
White Paper Travel Overland has been established in the German market as the leading provider of flight tickets for more than 25 years. Reduced commission rates from airlines in September 2004 has exerted further pressure on travel agents in a business that is... [31 May 2008]
Turbo-Charging Spreadsheets: Accessing SAS Forecast Server From Microsoft Excel
White Paper Airlines care about reservation center and flight crew staffing. According to major surveys of organizational forecasting practices, there is continued widespread use of spreadsheets for forecasting, despite major advances during the last 20 years... [31 May 2008]
Don't paper over cracks in the digital nation
Comment I is for In-flight Looking at the headline in The Guardian this week and you'd be forgiven for thinking something momentous has happened to Broadband Britain today: 'Fears of digital divide groundless as online access soars in rural areas', it... [23 May 2008]
Dear silicon.com... dirty computers, lie detectors, T5 tech, mobile ASBOs
Comment Anybody wanting to use a mobile in flight must state their intention at check-in and will consequently be seated at the back of the plane with the rest of the self-important morons shouting into their blingfones (TM). [15 May 2008]
Outsourcing: Not just about cutting costs?
News Instead the key is to treat outsourcers as an arm of the business, with customers expecting suppliers to have intimate knowledge of their workings and to get access to top-flight skills across the globe from their suppliers. [12 May 2008]
Brits want ASBOs for rude mobile users
News Music blaring out of mobiles and conversations so loud that everyone in the train carriage is forced to listen are just two of the mobile habits that are getting on the UK's wick. A survey of more than 2,000 UK adults found the top five pet hates... [09 May 2008]
Photos: Robot warriors engage in battle
Photo Here, the aerial unit will fly a set flight path, identifying potential threats and direct the ground vehicle to that location for a closer inspection. It's a simple rather unsophisticated device but many of these sensors can be carried onto the... [06 May 2008]
