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Why I'm planning a change of career
Comment The CAA exams were tough as was spherical geometry and aerodynamic theory but now I'm planning a lifestyle change, perhaps one day mixing flying private charter flights, occasional research projects and technology conferences. [17 Jul 2008]
Virgin Atlantic passengers flying through check-in
News Passengers at Heathrow's terminal three are flying through check-in thanks to joined up passenger databases.silicon.com Retail & Leisure This relies on a centralised passenger name record database, a system joining up Virgin Atlantic's cargo system... [29 Apr 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Instant delays
Comment Written while flying from London to Greece on BA632 and dispatched from a free wi-fi service in Athens. You name it, I've installed it. Just over a year ago I undertook the complete renovation of an old house. [16 Apr 2008]
Biometrics the future for flying bliss?
News Semaphore - which checks UK-bound passenger details against databases of banned individuals and passenger name records to assess risk - and Iris - which lets fliers use automated iris scanning gates at several UK airports - have been used as part... [21 Feb 2008]
Steve Ranger's Notebook: I, Avatar
Comment Several times my head drooped while I wasn't paying attention and if this wasn't enough I capped it all by flying round the room taking photos, and then teleporting off to the beach when I'd had enough. [19 Jun 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 24.11.06
Round-Up Other readers expressed similar concerns of this creeping 'police state' coming into force by stealth, while some raised concerns about the police's ability to secure all this data which is flying around. [24 Nov 2006]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Yes, China is different
Comment Written on BA038 flying Beijing to London. News, views, blogs, information from academia, corporations, government and on finance, healthcare, medicine, sport, technology - you name it, it all seemed to be available! [07 Aug 2006]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Start-up failures
Comment Written and edited on BA286 flying from San Francisco to London and dispatched from a free wi-fi site in London. You name it, I've seen it: from plain ignorance to stupidity and hubris - believe me 's@! [08 Feb 2006]
'First Tuesday' dot-com booze n' schmooze is back
News There were a lot of kids straight out of school and a lot of ideas flying about but everybody is a lot sharper now. But now two London-based entrepreneurs are resurrecting the event under the name 'Second Chance Tuesday' and plan on staging the... [06 Feb 2006]
Inside Kaspersky Labs: AV at the cold heart of Russia
Comment With its military background, it sounds a note of pragmatism which acknowledges that all the pot plants, pool tables and 21st century office space in the world won't help Kaspersky's high-flying Silicon Valley rivals fight viruses any more... [25 Jan 2006]
Gates wows Vegas with Vista keynote
News The demo included helicopters and flying birds, among other realistic details. Microsoft showed Sidebar in the first preview of Longhorn (Vista's code name) but the feature had disappeared from Microsoft's feature list before appearing more recently. [05 Jan 2006]
Passenger data row escalates to Court of Justice
News Three weeks ago, the parliamentarians asked the Commission to re-examine the accord negotiated with the US authorities in December 2003, which green-lighted the transfer of data on reservations by Europeans flying to the US. [23 Apr 2004]
EU reaches air data privacy agreement with US
News The acrimonious discussions centred on a conflict over the personal details - everything from name and age to credit card details and itinerary - of passengers flying into the US. A long-running spat between the US and Europe over privacy rights... [18 Dec 2003]
Google goes to court for keyword reassurance
News Because more companies are taking notice of the importance of search marketing, more complaints are flying. Mark charges that the search companies used keywords related to its trademarked name Body Solutions but buried Mark's own links. [05 Dec 2003]
Torvalds hit with SCO Linux lawsuit subpoena
News Subpoenas are flying in the high-profile lawsuit between the SCO Group and IBM, as both companies try to buttress their legal claims by turning to third parties for information. IBM has listed 7,200 potential witnesses on its behalf - primarily... [13 Nov 2003]
