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Comment I can at least be thankful I don't have to celebrate my birthday at the airport, unlike my silicon.com predecessor, Jo Best. This handset-touting circus is coming to the seaside city of Barcelona on 11 to 14 February (as if you didn't already know).
[10 Feb 2008]
News Z is for Zurich Airport Kelly said: "Pearson Driving Assessments Ltd, a private contractor to the Driving Standards Agency, informed the agency that a hard disk had gone missing from its secure facility in Iowa City, Iowa.
[18 Dec 2007]
AS Analysis Coby continues to adhere to his mantra of there being "no IT projects, only business projects" and is currently overseeing the tech infrastructure behind the new Terminal 5 at London's Heathrow Airport and introducing lean manufacturing principles...
[12 Oct 2007]
News Despite only being placed in the top 30, London was named as the best for airport, supply chain and talent availability, but the worst for cost of land and levels of traffic congestion. Dave Carter, head of the Manchester Digital Development Agency...
[26 Sep 2007]
News London's Heathrow airport was the fifth most popular worldwide wi-fi airport in the first half of 2007, with O'Hare International in Chicago coming first and Dallas-Fort Worth International second. Wi-fi at the airport
[20 Sep 2007]
Photo This is Heathrow Airport's new Terminal 5 (T5) in all its glory. T5 has been jointly developed by BAA - which runs the airport - and British Airways which will become the sole airline operating out of T5.silicon.com went along to see how the final...
[13 Jul 2007]
Photo Above, a traveller on his way to the airport accesses the wi-fi now available on all Heathrow Express trains running to and from Paddington. The service provides broadband access - at speeds of up to 2Mbps - to passengers on the 15 to 20 minute...
[27 Apr 2007]
Comment As soon as I leave the airport I can see that the tech industry has made its mark on this city. High-rise buildings with masses of blue glass are scattered around the area by the airport adorned with the logos of some of the biggest names - IBM...
[14 Mar 2007]
News The UK's most popular wi-fi venue is Heathrow Airport and research out today revealed almost half (49 per cent) of all public wi-fi access worldwide is consumed at airports. Want to log on at the airport?
[06 Mar 2007]
Comment A user who travelled through Jakarta's Soekarno-Hatta Airport in Indonesia, lest we get confused with Jakarta Halim Perdanakusuma Airport (hey, it's a far-reaching website) - let's call him Jeremy, for that was the only name he gave, spoke of a...
[19 Jan 2007]
Photo April 2006: While in San Francisco, silicon.com's Will Sturgeon got a behind-the-scenes look at the security tech in the city's airport. From the observation room inside the secure operating centre at San Francisco International Airport, staff are...
[20 Dec 2006]
Comment It's starting out with airports, so when you find a good wi-fi hotspot at an airport you can let everyone know about it and we can help spread the thaw! Others have also figured it out - such as The City Inn Westminster - and so have some...
[05 Dec 2006]
Round-Up It's in the airport lounges but we're not fearful of terrorists. That city is, of course, now known for blanket wi-fi coverage. There is a new danger all around us, ladies and gentlemen. It's in the coffee shops but it's we're not talking about the...
[01 Dec 2006]
Comment The City of Norwich is located in the northeastern corner of East Anglia and is pretty well isolated by a dire road network, poor rail services and a dinky regional airport providing a few business flights.
[30 Aug 2006]
whitepaper Jordan's Aqaba Special Economic Zone Authority (ASEZA) needed to provide WAN connectivity for eight remote sites, including the two ASEZA headquarters, Wadi Araba Customs, King Hussein International Airport, Aqaba City Services Centre, Aqaba...
[16 Jun 2006]
whitepaper Owned by the city of Atlanta, Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport is one of the best. As part of its efforts to make communications as easy as possible for anyone who visits or works at the airport, Hartsfield-Jackson has built one of...
[07 Jun 2006]
News London City Airport has continued its push to concentrate on its core business, outsourcing all of its IT and communications to SITA in a seven-year deal. Richard Gooding, London City Airport MD, told silicon.com: "We need to concentrate on our...
[19 May 2006]
News Stanstead airport was the first to go live earlier this week and will be followed this month by five other airports: Heathrow, Gatwick, Glasgow, Edinburgh and Southampton. The Cloud has also recently won a contract to build a wi-fi network across...
[14 Mar 2006]
News Davesh Shukla, head of IT, London City Airport An overwhelming majority of IT bosses - 11 out of the 12-man silicon.com CIO Jury IT user panel - predicted biometrics will overcome the current technical and standards issues to be a more user...
[16 Feb 2006]
Comment Attention-grabbing as one exited the airport at the other end were huge billboards for Samsung and ads for the likes of TI, LG and I think Nokia. Apparently, before any bombardment of the senses at a busy Barcelona airport, where half the world...
[13 Feb 2006]
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