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Peter Cochrane's Video Blog: Silent flights

Video In his latest video blog, Peter Cochrane explains his secret to feeling refreshed after long-haul flights - and even gives a glimpse of what his blog would sound like from inside an aircraft cabin.

Tags: travel, peter cochrane, noise reduction

[22 Oct 2007]

Mile-high wi-fi takes off on US airlines

News In-flight broadband is coming soon for travellers on some American Airlines and Virgin America flights. Aircell, a company that sells air-to-ground telecommunications equipment to airlines, said this week that its in-flight broadband system will be...

Tags: wi-fi, wi fi, america, country

[13 Mar 2008]

Dear silicon.com... T5 chaos, mobile maladies, and laptop losses…

Comment Doing a band-playing, big-bang move of so many flights and services to the new terminal was a fool-hardy move in the first place - they should have trickled stuff into it over six months. It's now late Saturday and there are still problems...

Tags: laptop, t5, heathrow, mobile

[03 Apr 2008]

The Weekly Round-Up: 04.02.05

Round-Up Also failing to engage their brains before hitting 'send' this week were the team behind Ryan Air's email newsletter - an excellent source of information regarding low cost flights around Europe.if you speak Swedish.

[04 Feb 2005]

Editor's Blog: Confusing communications?

Comment Then we had the story about how Air France was putting back and extending a trial to allow use of mobiles on flights. There were others, like the C&W angle to a big R&SA contract, and even Peter Cochrane chipped in with a blog about iris scanning...

Tags: blackberry, mobiles on planes, business travel

[18 Apr 2007]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: Travel pains

Comment Customer experience one: "I would agree that I want my journey through the airport to be as easy as possible but I have to tell you that on my last three flights the new self-service check-in systems caused me nothing but stress and frustration.

Tags: business traveller, cochrane

[24 Apr 2006]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: 7/7 shows we need more networks

Comment I was able to get through, give all my family the reassurance they craved, and camp out for a week in a Seattle hotel until flights back to the UK resumed. Editor's note: This blog was written on 7/7/05 at 18:00(BST) but is only being posted now...

Tags: text message, peter cochrane

[08 Jul 2005]

Dear silicon.com... green carrots, cloud nine chats, open source ponderings …

Comment So long as the price of flights doesn't increase substantially, I think it's a worthwhile investment! ¦ Peter Cochrane's Video Blog: Multitasking mastery ¦ Heathrow Terminal 5 opens its doors ¦ Video: The Colossus WWII codebreaking...

Tags: green it, flight, mobile, open source

[27 Mar 2008]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: Security and 'toilet paper'

Comment Written in Porto during a frantic series of flights transiting Portugal, the UK and the US. Despatched from Philadelphia on a free wi-fi service provided by a conference organiser Now and again you might spot some vagrant rummaging around in a...

Tags: data security

[28 Apr 2006]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: Airport insecurity

Comment I was surprised when these offending objects went undetected on international and internal flights. 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.

Tags: travel, airports, security

[29 Apr 2008]

Editor's Blog: Signs of terminal decline at T5?

Comment It seems that the big-bang introduction of so many flights at once was too much for the new terminal to take. It's a small claim to fame, I know, but I was one of the passengers who flew from the newly opened Heathrow Terminal 5 last week - and my...

Tags: project, t5, ba

[16 Apr 2008]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: Searching for wi-fi in Norwich

Comment The City of Norwich is located in the northeastern corner of East Anglia and is pretty well isolated by a dire road network, poor rail services and a dinky regional airport providing a few business flights.

Tags: wi-fi

[30 Aug 2006]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: Remember when flying was fun?

Comment There have also been various experiments in the US with hand and thumb print readers so that people can pass quickly through security on the basis of a continual vetting of their security status but only for internal flights.

Tags: airport security

[27 Mar 2006]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: RFID and flight security

Comment Seems to me all means of ignition should be banned on all flights if we are really serious about aircraft safety. Along with an aircraft full of people at Schipol, I have just stowed my luggage in the overhead, got seated and settled in, ready to...

Tags: rfid

[01 Dec 2005]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: Information the way it should be

Comment So here I am eating lunch and able to see all approaching and leaving flights. Written from Logan Airport, Boston, Massachusetts Despite my 30 years of travel and work in the US, this place never ceases to amaze me.

Tags: blog, peter cochrane, wi-fi

[12 Sep 2005]

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