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Photos: Top iPhone apps for business
Photo Users can also use the app to click through to ba.com, where they can book flights, manage bookings and check in online. However, the App Store currently stocks more than 2,000 business apps and, with the iPhone... [27 Oct 2009]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: United breaks guitars?
Comment Compiled at JFK Airport whilst waiting for BA 178 to fly me home via London Heathrow. Dispatched to silicon.com via a free LAN connection in the BA lounge. I just boarded an early morning shuttle bus... [14 Oct 2009]
British Airways Makes Business-Critical Systems Unbreakable and Lowers Total Cost of Ownership
White Paper British Airways plc (BA) wanted to guarantee availability of passenger-facing and core back-office processes with instant failover, transparent disaster recovery, unparalleled performance, and seamless scalability. [01 Oct 2009]
British Airways' London to New York route lets flyers use mobiles
News On Tuesday, BA will go live with an in-flight connectivity service from OnAir, which will see passengers on the all business class route able to use their mobiles to send texts or emails and browse the web. [28 Sep 2009]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: 3G Reality bytes
Comment Compiled on BA 215 flying London to Boston and dispatched to silicon.com from my harbour hotel via a rather poor and expensive wi-fi service Continually promising to deliver what the limits of physics say can't be done... [14 Sep 2009]
Has in-flight entertainment got wings in the iPod era?
News Wireless web access is already available or soon to be deployed, across a number of airlines including BA and Ryanair, both of which use a system from OnAir, a joint venture between Airbus and Sita. Airlines should scrap... [03 Jul 2009]
British Airways: No mobiles on old planes
News BA is currently planning to launch a mobile email, web browsing and texting service from OnAir on two new Airbus A318 aircrafts in September of this year. However, it would cost BA too much to fit... [01 Jul 2009]
Paul Coby
CIO Profile He joined British Airways (BA) in 1997 and became CIO in 2001, taking charge of the airline's technology and IT-enabled business change. He has overseen a 45 per cent reduction in the cost of running... [03 Jun 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 30.01.09
Round-Up The good news: the system supports voice calls but BA has decided not to switch the function on, something that will no doubt please those travellers who don't wish to be bombarded with calls. Bandwidth, bandwidth... [30 Jan 2009]
Mile high text for British Airways' business fliers
News A spokesman for BA said it is installing an in-flight mobile comms system from OnAir into the two new aircrafts that will serve the route. OnAir's system supports voice but the BA spokesman told... [27 Jan 2009]
Mobile-software company UIQ files for bankruptcy
News BA CIO - how we attract the best IT grads The mobile-software company UIQ has filed for bankruptcy, following the decision by its last remaining customer to stop using its platform. Motorola and Sony Ericsson, the joint... [05 Jan 2009]
Do you need video in your enterprise?
Comment BA CIO - how we attract the best IT grads Video has been hailed a productivity booster and cost saver. But can it deliver? Freeform Dynamics's IdaRose Sylvester explains what video can and can't do. As we enter 2009,... [05 Jan 2009]
"It's either Segways or Strangeways"
News BA CEO Willie Walsh's assessment of the chaotic opening of Heathrow Terminal 5 January There are very few companies that understand software. Former chairman of Microsoft, Bill Gates, speaking in an interview with... [23 Dec 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: New password theory
Comment Written at Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport and dispatched to silicon.com from the BA lounge via a free wi-fi service Can you imagine what a password of the following form might be used to protect '2c93b8819ca8c7d23dbeb628a8'? [22 Dec 2008]
Tech skills and grads, and when architecture meets IT
News BA's CIO Paul Coby also revealed his thoughts on IT's image problems. Coby also shares how BA attracts top drawer graduates and what the airline's latest intake of tech new starters can expect in their... [21 Dec 2008]
