You are here: silicon.com > Tags

607 stories on

flight

Sort by: Date | Relevance


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.

Tags: ito, offshoring, outsourcing

[12 May 2008]

Protecting and Leveraging Your Virtual Server Environments

whitepaper These solutions can also be used in conjunction with virtualization for pre-flight testing of system changes and for system re-purposing. Complete data and system protection is critical while running on a virtual or physical server.

Tags: disaster recovery

[11 May 2008]

Working With the Enterprise Service Bus and Mediations, Part 1: A Guide to Create, Deploy, and Test Mediations

whitepaper 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...

Tags: systems integration

[10 May 2008]

A Practical Introduction to Message Mediation - Part 1: The Basics of Message Mediation

whitepaper 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...

Tags: monitoring systems

[10 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. So much ire is being generated by mobile use that some Brits believe...

Tags: texting, in-flight, mobile

[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. The Grand Challenge is a science and technology competition set up by the Ministry of Defence to...

Tags: military, sensor, robot

[06 May 2008]

Providing for Data Protection and Faster Backups With Sun

whitepaper Named after Orville and Wilbur Wright, the inventors of powered flight, Wright State University continues their tradition of innovation. A rich and dynamic community of nearly 17,000 students, Wright State offers more than 100 undergraduate degrees...

Tags: back-up

[06 May 2008]

Busy Airport Becomes an Agile, Secure, Unified Enterprise With Sun Portal and Communication Products

whitepaper They deployed sun's portal-based access to financial applications, flight information and other business-critical applications as well as e-mail, calendaring and instant messaging with single sign-on and user authentication.

Tags: data center

[06 May 2008]

Virgin Atlantic passengers flying through check-in

News The travelling process has been smoothed by linking up customer details, flight information and limousine service information. Passengers at Heathrow's terminal three are flying through check-in thanks to joined up passenger databases.silicon.com...

Tags: planes, virgin, heathrow

[29 Apr 2008]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: Airport insecurity

Comment First drafted on flight BA633 from Athens to London and finished on BA093 to Toronto a week later. Dispatched via a free wi-fi service. Before 9/11, I regularly travelled the planet with a full toolkit as well as other objects that are now...

Tags: travel, airports, security

[29 Apr 2008]

Euro e-health getting the right attention

News I is for In-flight European primary healthcare services are benefiting from broadband, says the European Commission, but there are still wide discrepancies in GPs' use of IT across Europe. An EC e-health survey has found the vast majority (87 per...

Tags: telemonitoring, healthcare, e-health

[28 Apr 2008]

BT embraces NetSuite's on-demand software

News I is for In-flight BT and NetSuite have joined forces to bring web-based on-demand software to the telco's 1.6 million business customers. BT is offering NetSuite's business management applications and will soon provide customer relationship...

Tags: smes, saas, crm, bt

[22 Apr 2008]

Warning: Web will run out of space by 2010

News I is for In-flight The US telecoms giant AT&T has claimed that, without investment, the internet's current network architecture will reach the limits of its capacity by 2010. Speaking at a Westminster eForum on web 2.0 this week in London, Jim...

Tags: web, web 2.0, isps, government

[21 Apr 2008]

Europe embracing speedy fat pipes

News I is for In-flight More than a quarter of a billion Europeans regularly use the internet with around 80 per cent of those people being hooked up to broadband connections. Around three-quarters (77 per cent) of businesses in Europe are now using...

Tags: online, i2010, eu, broadband

[18 Apr 2008]

Tesco to launch iTunes challenger

News I is for In-flight Tesco is launching an online music service next month with more than three million tracks available to download and more content to follow. Tesco Digital will initially offer all of the tracks in Window Media format with around...

Tags: mp3, online, digital music, itunes

[15 Apr 2008]

Information Needs in Flight Monitoring: A Tool in Aviation Security

whitepaper The Next Generation Air Transportation System security concept introduced flight monitoring as a part of risk management and shared situational awareness. Information on the aircraft performance, its flight trajectory, and the onboard situation...

Tags: monitoring systems

[11 Apr 2008]

Flight Centre

whitepaper Travel specialist Flight Centre deployed Dell's Premier Pages portal to manage procurement and logistics as well as provide staff with instant access to helpdesk and technical support information. Flight Centre staff now place and track orders...

Tags: portals, pages, procurement, portal

[10 Apr 2008]

Enhancing Airport Customer Service and Revenue with the Cisco Mobile Office Solution

whitepaper 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. Today’s airports are facing a major customer service problem.

Tags: mobile - wireless communications, airports, professionals, air

[10 Apr 2008]

Data Takes Off in Real Time at Delta

whitepaper In the past, 13 Delta business units accessed information stored on 30 separate customer databases and 40 flight databases, using 70 applications. Although a new piece of data might be critical to several databases and applications, Delta had no...

Tags: business management, databases, delta, business processes

[10 Apr 2008]

IDTechEx Case Study: Las Vegas McCarran International Airport, Baggage, USA

whitepaper Without RFID, this is a time-intensive, laborious process, which can extensively delay flight departures. McCarran International Airport in Nevada, USA brokered a five-year contract with Matrics to supply RFID tags for use in tracking passenger...

Tags: rfid, rfid, airport, aircraft

[10 Apr 2008]

Sort by: Date | Relevance


Site Map    


Quick Sitemap Links: