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In-flight Internet cleared for take-off

I've been skeptical of plans for in-flight broadband access. Let's face it, the airlines don't have a great track record here. No one used those sad phones in the seatbacks. And Boeing's Connexion service--once offered by a few international carriers--is gone. But this time it may finally happen. ...

Tags: Internet Access, American Airlines, Wall Street Journal, Flight, JetBlue Airways Corp., Boeing Co., Equipment, Satellite, Virgin America, Aircell, U.S. In-flight Broadband, Satellite TV, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Networking, John Morris

Blog posts 2008-03-13

Being middle-seated in the back row

I got middle-seated again- in the back row - courtesy of Delta Airlines.  Not only that, we sat on the tarmac for 2 hours waiting for the "traffic" to clear (heh?).  So I got thinking about some of the things in life that irritate me.....'   m Being middle-seated...

Tags: American Airlines, Disney Corp., Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Bluetooth, Sales Strategy, Food & Beverage, Web Services, Wi-Fi, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Wireless, Sales, Manufacturing, Phil Fersht

Blog posts 2007-12-31

American Airlines seeks damages against Google

American Airlines seeks damages against GoogleAdd Value and not take itThis practice in this case from AA does not add value to the market business model. It takes it away and diverts from the real need to offer a sound customer service and real value in its offering.AA and...

Tags: SEARCH, American Airlines, lawsuit, Google Inc., search engine

Discussion threads 2007-08-19

American Airlines files suit against Google - It's destined to fail

American Airlines has decided to sue Google because they don't like it when other people use their trademarks in advertisements. Instead of going after the people actually abusing their trademark, they want Google to pay the price for letting it happen in the first place.The same complaint has come...

Tags: Google Inc., American Airlines, Garett Rogers

Blog posts 2007-08-17

My first passage to India - boom times trigger memories of dotbombs

[This is an account of my first trip to India,  traveling as a guest of Tibco Software, (an SVW sponsor). Vivek Ranadive, the CEO of Tibco is launching his business IT strategy book "The Power to Predict" in India, and he invited me to come along as he meets with politicians...

Tags: Check-in, TIBCO Software Inc., IT company, American Airlines, information technology

Blog posts 2006-10-30

American Airlines must die

American Airlines must dieIt keeps fares artificially highJohn, I feel your pain, and while I think it's a ridiculous policy (and a stupid one), here's one reason why the airlines do this.A few years back, I wanted to fly into Charlotte, NC. US Air has a virtual monopoly on...

Tags: American Airlines

Discussion threads 2006-07-31

American Airlines must die

I have bad luck flying. I've mentioned before that I'm on a "special list" with the Department of Homeland Security (cursed common Irish names) which ensures that I can't use self-checkin kiosks at airports. Well, I've topped that. I arrived on Sunday at the American...

Tags: American Airlines, Southwest Airlines Co.

Blog posts 2006-07-31

American Airlines subpoenas Google, YouTube

American Airlines subpoenas Google, YouTubeISPs stuck in the middle? Not hardly...I don't see how ISPs are stuck in the middle, every contract/agreement I have ever seen from an ISP plainly states that posting copyrighted material is against the ISPs policy. All they need do is hand over the...

Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), Corporate communications, Due Process, Google Video, Internet Service Provider, video, Google Inc., American Airlines, YouTube Inc.

Discussion threads 2006-03-09

Billionaire kicks up pressure on Time Warner

Billionaire kicks up pressure on Time WarnerHow is this news? 2.8 Percent?Thats like letting the minority run the majorityGreat job at TWACarl did such a good job at TWA...wait they went broke and were bought by American and mostly shut down. Oh!! American Airlines is sinking like...

Tags: TWA, Time Warner Inc., American Airlines

Discussion threads 2005-10-11

50% of online travel shoppers buy from travel agencies, 50% - from airline Web sites

Nielsen//NetRatings reported that while the majority, or 54%, of online travel shoppers begin travel research with an online travel agency, consumers are evenly split between travel agencies and airline Web sites when it comes to the actual purchase of online travel. As far as researching goes, 37% of online travel...

Tags: agency, WEB SITES, Delta, American Airlines, travel agency

Blog posts 2005-06-27

American Airlines uses Sybase IQ to conduct fast ad hoc queries to uncover fraudulent ticketing.

American Airlines is the world’s largest carrier, serving more than 250 cities in 41 countries with 1,100 airplanes and approximately 4,400 daily flights. The airline processes approximately 125 million transportation documents on an annual basis. For any airline, identifying fraudulent transactions, which are usually unintentional but quite...

Tags: Airline, American Airlines, Sybase Inc., Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

White papers 2004-11-04

Dell Case Study: American Airlines

American Airlines is one of the largest scheduled passenger airlines in the world, providing 2,400 daily departures to destinations throughout North America, the Caribbean, Latin America, Europe and the Pacific. Many American Airline employees do not have access to a computer during work hours and those who do often do...

Tags: American Airlines, Dell Computer Corp., Productivity

Case studies

Printek Case Study: American Airlines

Printek's PrintMaster 850 was recently approved for use throughout American Airlines Maintenance group by E.D.S. / Sabre. Extensive tests were performed by the Platform Development Group on the PM850 and PM850 w/Ethernet. After two months of testing, the PrintMaster 850 was given the green light, and is now the preferred...

Tags: American Airlines, Printek, Printers, Hardware, Peripherals

Case studies

Qualcomm Case Study: American Airlines

American Airlines is one of the world's largest airlines, serving more than 250 cities in more than 40 countries with more than 3,800 flights. The Mobility Solutions Group of American Airlines' IT Enterprise Technology Group and the Maintenance and Engineering (M&E) IT Group wanted to develop a method for mechanics...

Tags: American Airlines, Qualcomm Inc., Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Case studies

American Airlines Center Flys High With Centralized Wi-Fi From Aruba

American Airlines Center in Dallas, Texas, is considered by many to be one of the most technologically-advanced sports and entertainment venues in the world. The AA Center wanted a better way to easily and securely deploy 802.11 a/b/g technology for a variety of network applications, including in-seat concessions, real-time asset...

Tags: American Airlines, Network, Aruba Networks, AA Center, Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Networking

Case studies

IMAGE-X Enterprises Case Study: American Airlines

Over ten years ago, American Airlines created a department known as IdeAAs In Action to receive suggestions from its employees as well as subsidiaries. IdeAAs In Action was trying to respond to over 30,000 handwritten suggestions each year. After evaluating several competitive proposals, Image-X was selected as the best system...

Tags: American Airlines, Database, Mainframes, WANs, Storage, Servers, Networking, Hardware

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BEA Systems Case Study: American Airlines

Because American's worldwide workforce is highly mobile, with one-fourth of American employees in the air at any time and more than half never going to an office, the company could not reply on the corporate intranet to connect everyone. It needed a secure site on the Internet, and many employees...

Tags: American Airlines, BEA Systems Inc., Portals, Internet, Desktops, Hardware

Case studies

Additional Resources

Another morning hangover for ethanolics

This time a major U.S. newspaper editorializes against the American subsidies for ethanol. Their conclusion: "This does not mean that Congress should give up on biofuels as an important part of the effort to reduce the country's dependency on imported oil and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. What it does...

Tags: Biofuel, Methanol, Greenhouse Gas, Clean Technology, Corn, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-05-10

VCs put big sums into SaaS

Several SaaS vendors have announced some big funding rounds the past couple of weeks, which suggests that SaaS is still able to command strong VC support where vendors can show good traction for their offerings. The three rounds that caught my eye were: Rearden Commerce, $100 million....

Tags: Software-as-a-service, Rearden Commerce, Analytics, Sales Compensation, Intacct, Software As A Service (SaaS), Sales Force Management, Sales Strategy, Emerging Technologies, Sales, Phil Wainewright

Blog posts 2008-05-09

Mowser purchased by dotMobi; is there a need for a .mobi domain?

Mowser purchased by dotMobi; is there a need for a .mobi domain?.mobi is UsefulI like developed .mobi sites, and have a blog and showcase of .mobi sites at http://mobienthusiast.mobi. It's true that there are many mobile optimized .com sites, but I like the simplicity of being able to type in...

Tags: Advertising & Promotion, DotMobi, mobi site, mobi, mobile, mobi domain, dotMobi, Visit BofA.mobi, domain

Discussion threads 2008-05-09