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Resort Streamlines Skier Check-In, Improves Data Collection With RF Technology
White Paper In addition, the company had little visibility into the skiing patterns of its guests. Vail Resorts, based in Broomfield, Colorado, is a premier mountain resort company. Ski lift pass authentication for season pass... [01 Sep 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 24.10.08
Round-Up Like on a horse or while skiing, the Round-Up can only guess. As it surveys the scene outside silicon Towers this week (mainly rain and a building site in case you were wondering) the Round-Up has been giving some... [24 Oct 2008]
Dear silicon.com... T5 chaos, mobile maladies, and laptop losses…
Comment My colleague was on a flight to Vancouver yesterday and had to leave (and arrive) for a week's skiing without any luggage. The Heathrow Terminal 5 (T5) chaos has dominated reader comments this week, with many readers,... [03 Apr 2008]
Photos: Wi-fi gets ice cool on the slopes
Photo Chill Factore, a ski village on the outskirts of Manchester which has the UK's longest indoor, real-snow ski slope, along with bars, restaurants and conference facilities, has installed a wireless network across its complex. [05 Feb 2008]
'Roaming cuts could ruin your skiing holiday'
News The GSM Association, the trade body representing the mobile industry, believes impending cuts in roaming rates will see some customers plunged into coverage black spots. According to the Association, 25 per cent of roaming traffic will... [24 Apr 2007]
Munich finally flicks the Linux switch
News Microsoft had fought hard to retain the government's business, with chief executive Steve Ballmer interrupting a skiing holiday to pay a personal visit to the city's mayor. The city of Munich has finally started to... [26 Sep 2006]
Simon Norbury
Q&A Area where you most want to improve yourself: My skiing. Hobbies: Skiing, classic TVR and my daughter. Employer and official job title: City of Westminster - CSi Project Director and Head of ICT. What do... [28 Jun 2005]
My first computer: The Dragon 32
News Horace Goes Skiing was an embarrassment. This article was first published in February 2002 as part of our 'Technologies That Time Forgot' series. We are running the full series again to mark the recent re-birth of... [10 Feb 2005]
Q&A: Dell CEO Kevin Rollins
Comment He races motorcross motorbikes and likes to take himself off skiing. It has been just six months since Kevin Rollins took over the reigns at the helm of PC giant Dell last year after founder Michael Dell stepped aside as... [18 Jan 2005]
Re:Viewing 2003 - Software
News Herr Ude remained intractable - and Microsoft's loss was the skiing world's gain. In Europe, one notable win came courtesy of the Mayor of Munich, who switched 14,000 government desktops from Windows to Linux, despite a... [22 Dec 2003]
The Penguin rides again
Comment But this week the local government in Munich has decided to switch its operating system and 14,000 desktops from Microsoft to Linux in a E30m move, despite Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer interrupting a skiing holiday to... [29 May 2003]
'I could have fallen further into the crevasse risking serious injury or death...'
News We started skiing down in a small group with mountain guides and had a great ski in the virgin snow. I have just returned from a skiing holiday where I survived a very near miss thanks to my mobile phone. [23 Apr 2003]
Wife 'hired hitman' to kill Scoot.com CEO
News After arranging the hit, she left for a skiing holiday with her new boyfriend to provide an alibi, prosecutors said, and she was arrested when she returned to London in February. The ex-wife of Jon Molyneux, the former... [24 Sep 2002]
No tequilas (well only one), lots of snow and achy legs
News Skiing after all comes with quite a high potential for massive injury. Welcome to a slightly nervous third part of a tequila-fuelled marathon training schedule expose, all in aid of IT Relief (http://www.itrelief.org ) [09 Apr 2002]
Technologies Time Forgot: The Dragon 32
Comment Horace Goes Skiing was an embarrassment. The kids loved the ZX Spectrum and the BBC Micro, but Graham Hayday's memories of the Dragon 32 aren't quite so fond. Christmas, 1983. I wanted a computer to play games on. [11 Feb 2002]
