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News The exact cause of the technical fault that caused two days of luggage chaos at Heathrow remains unknown. Heathrow's Terminal 5 in pics ¦ Photos: Passenger's eye view of Heathrow Terminal 5 ¦ Photos: Heathrow's T5 tech ready for take-off... [21 Feb 2008]
Kiosk plans take flight for Lastminute
News Lastminute.com is expanding from clicks into bricks to give travelers in Heathrow and London's Oxford Street a chance to plan their moves. The cheap ticket internet company is to set up retail kiosks in each of Heathrow's terminals to give... [16 Aug 2001]
Airport iris-scan system rollout extended
News Iris-scanning immigration control technology has been rolled out to another terminal at Heathrow Airport. Frequent travellers using Heathrow Terminal 1 can use the Iris Recognition Immigration System (Iris) to enter the UK without queuing to see an... [10 Mar 2006]
Photos: Technology at the heart of Terminal 5
Photo Terminal 5 (T5) is the first new terminal to be built at Heathrow for more than twenty years - and includes some cutting-edge technologies. Above, a British Airways plane passes the new Terminal 5 at Heathrow. [17 Jul 2007]
Thieves strike in £3m memory chip sting
News UK police are appealing for help after thieves made off with around £3m-worth of memory chips from a Heathrow warehouse. The thieves struck on Wednesday morning between 04:00 and 05:00, breaking into the warehouse near Heathrow Airport under the... [10 Oct 2002]
Dear silicon.com... T5 chaos, mobile maladies, and laptop losses…
Comment The Heathrow Terminal 5 (T5) chaos has dominated reader comments this week, with many readers, unsurprisingly, astonished it went so wrong. Editor's choice silicon.com editor Steve Ranger flags up his picks on the site this week.¦ Photos: High... [03 Apr 2008]
RFID bag tags could save air-travel industry millions
News As Heathrow Terminal Five (T5) recovers from go-live glitches in its baggage handling systems, air travel IT specialist Sita has released research showing 42.4 million bags are lost in airports across the world. [18 Apr 2008]
Leader: IT at the heart of T5
Leader The construction of Terminal 5 at Heathrow Airport is a massive project that will mean some big improvements for passengers starting in 2008. Got your own views on Heathrow? These will include pervasive wireless internet access, a private mobile... [20 Feb 2006]
Tech not to blame for Terminal 5 fiasco
News The opening day problems at Heathrow's Terminal 5 (T5) were largely down to a lack of staff familiarisation with new facilities and processes, rather than technology issues. All the tech at Heathrow T5… [08 May 2008]
Biometric airport security gets thumbs-up
News Air travellers have backed biometric security checks after a four-month trial of the passenger screening technology at London's Heathrow airport. This data was then uploaded onto an RFID smartcard, used in conjunction with a fingerprint reader at... [20 Jun 2007]
BA CIO: 'Terminal 5 tech will revolutionise air travel'
News Paul Coby, CIO of British Airways, has told silicon.com the opening of Heathrow Terminal 5 will signify the coming of age of BA and the completion of its transformation from a company that has been accused in the past of playing catch-up with more... [21 Sep 2006]
Big reward for armed mobile thieves
News The reward for any information leading to the capture of a gang which stole 9,000 Nokia phones from a warehouse near Heathrow has been upped to a whopping £100,000. Early the next morning they were taken back to the warehouse near Heathrow and... [04 Jul 2001]
Iris recognition to be installed across UK airports
News Iris-recognition technology will be used for immigration control across the UK's main international airports following a successful trial of the system at Heathrow. The Iris Recognition Immigration System (Iris) will be rolled out over the next... [15 Jun 2004]
Why the punishment doesn't fit the high-tech crime
Comment The nine-year jail sentence today for the IT expert who masterminded a £2m credit card fraud from passengers who bought tickets for London's Heathrow Express rail link contrasts sharply with recent sentences seen for virus writers and software... [09 Sep 2003]
Mountain of lost laptops builds at UK airports
News Heathrow airport, the busiest international airport in the world, serves millions of business travellers each month, many of whom travel with laptops, but a member of the lost property team at Heathrow airport told silicon.com hundreds of those... [01 Sep 2006]
