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Underwater robots, Google Moon, edible beetles and ID cards
Photo Airport IT supplier Sita developed this mobile web app for air travellers, currently being trialled by Malaysia Airlines, that allows them to check flight schedules and fares from their phones. Photo... [04 Aug 2009]
Photos: The tech keeping the world's airports flying high
Photo Sita has also developed a mobile web app for air travellers, currently being trialled by Malaysia Airlines, that allows passengers to check flight schedules and fares from their phones.... [07 Jul 2009]
Take a trip to the future of air travel
News For instance, if you are getting out of your car at the airport, the app that has the details of your flight realises you have not checked-in and lights up and asks you whether you want to... [03 Jul 2009]
Air Travel Web Site Enhances Brand, Enriches User Experience With 3-D Flight Tracker
White Paper iFly.com provides comprehensive information about air travel across North America, offering travel planning, trip purchasing, and flight monitoring resources on a single... [10 Dec 2008]
Bumpy landing for Bangalore's airport dream
Comment Shenoy gets all the way to London from Bangalore in about twice the time his colleagues take to travel to the airport to catch a domestic flight. When Shenoy arrived at the airport last... [30 Jul 2008]
Mobile 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... [20 Jun 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 28.03.08
Round-Up Meanwhile, the first authorised in-flight mobile call was made at 30,000ft on 21 March on Emirates flight EK751 flying between Dubai and Casablanca. The airline is spending a cool $27m... [28 Mar 2008]
Five weird ways to bridge the digital divide
News I is for In-flight More than just hot air? The company affixes wireless transceivers to hydrogen- or helium-filled weather balloons and releases them so they travel to... [06 Mar 2008]
Biometrics wing their way into Gatwick
News A Home Office spokeswoman explained that Sierra Leone was chosen because the main flight into Gatwick from the country arrives at a quiet time with a low number of passengers. Editor's blog silicon.com editor, Tony... [09 Oct 2007]
Austrian Airlines Portal for Pilots' Tablet PCs Meets Security Guidelines
White Paper Working with Microsoft Gold Certified Partner mii, Austrian Airlines created their electronic flight rules and communication portal named "eFORCE" and deployed handheld devices running Microsoft Windows XP with Service... [30 Aug 2007]
Biometric airport security gets thumbs-up
News The miSense trial was aimed at testing the feasibility of advanced passenger screening in the UK, which would allow the traveller's details to be checked against various intelligence and immigration databases and 'watch... [20 Jun 2007]
Will's Web Watch: Let the train take the strain
Comment Throw in flight time plus taxi transfer at the other end and I've found it all makes for a total travel time of more than four hours and 30 minutes door-to-door, during which you're... [04 Jun 2007]
£400m 'biometric borders' bidders revealed
News The system will have access to advance passenger information from airlines, including name, date of birth, nationality and passport details, and this data will be cross-referenced against government databases before the individual boards... [06 Nov 2006]
CIO Essentials: Luke Mellors' picks of the week
News Virgin bans in-flight use of Apple, Dell laptops Air travel is becoming so restrictive and when you can't use your laptop is basically a waste of time which none of us... [19 Sep 2006]
Give us a greener Budget, Chancellor told
News Eliminating just one unnecessary flight from London to New York would save 1.2 tonnes of carbon dioxide. With execs making unnecessary journeys, including air travel, this points towards... [21 Mar 2006]
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