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Photos: Android, high-tech Heathrow, the future of shopping

Photo Meanwhile, Heathrow's Terminal 3 and Emirates Airlines are running a trial of RFID technology to keep track of baggage on flights to and from Dubai. The biggest mobile trade show in the world, aptly called Mobile World Congress 2008, took place in...

Tags: heathrow, mobile world congress, android, rfid

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[28 Feb 2008]

Photos: Heathrow bags RFID tech to end lost luggage

Photo Heathrow Terminal 3 and Emirates airlines are running a six-month trial of tagging luggage with RFID chips on flights to and from Dubai. Baggage is loaded on and off flights in 'tins'. About 300,000 pieces of luggage are expected to be scanned...

Tags: rfid, luggage, heathrow, trial

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[14 Feb 2008]

Photos: Heathrow's T5 tech ready for take-off

Photo silicon.com has been given an exclusive behind the scenes look at BAA's brand new Terminal 5 (T5) at Heathrow ahead of its official opening for British Airways (BA) flights on 27 March. There is also a section for flight crew where they can check...

Tags: heathrow, control, security, ip

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[12 Feb 2008]

Photos: Virgin goes Galactic for SpaceShipTwo

Photo The WhiteKnightTwo aircraft, expected to be ready for test flights this summer, is a high-altitude aircraft that will fly SpaceShipTwo to the upper atmosphere. Before Rutan won the X Prize, Richard Branson had already announced SpaceShipOne would...

Tags: plane, virgin, space, founder

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[24 Jan 2008]

Photos: Biometric security comes to Heathrow

Photo The miSense trial at London's Heathrow Airport will use biometric fingerprint and iris scans to screen air passengers on selected Emirates and Cathay Pacific flights to and from Dubai and Hong Kong. The scheme will run until the end of January 2007...

Tags: heathrow, biometric, biometrics

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[06 Dec 2006]

Photos: Offshore, inside India's IT capital Bangalore

Photo Since the end of October British Airways has been running its first direct flights from London Heathrow to Bangalore at the heart of India's IT industry. While new routes are launched all the time by airlines this one reflects the shift in global...

Tags: ba cio paul coby, bangalore, offshoring

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[28 Nov 2005]

Photos: Google reinvents the waiting room...

Photo Google claims that the average traveller wastes more than nine hours per year waiting for flights at UK airports. Google's latest venture is trial project, Google Space, which offers travellers in Heathrow Airport free internet access and a chance...

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[25 Nov 2005]