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- China's now building commercial airliners?!¿@!¡
- China's now building commercial airliners?!¿@!¡I think China will ultimately be very successful in airliners.To be sure, Chinese companies have made some big errors this year: Lead in children's toys, tainted pet food ingredients, and releasing pre-production automobiles for safety testing that kill all of the passengers in ordinary crashes. But,...
- Tags: Boeing Co., airliner, Airbus
- Discussion threads 2007-12-21
- Thanks to CIA, your cellphone could catch terrorists
- Thanks to CIA, your cellphone could catch terroristsCell phones? Not likely...This tech. will most likely be used to clean up satelite imaging from outer space, giving the feds the ability to focus on pin points instead of pin headed people.Cell phones? Not likely...This tech. will most likely be...
- Tags: Cellular phones, Pentagon, cell phone, airliner, CIA
- Discussion threads 2007-07-25
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- Business systems for a faster, flatter world
- One of the biggest problems facing enterprises today is that the world is communicating faster than their IT systems can keep up with. This is particularly obvious in businesses that operate multinationally. Their managers collaborate and communicate daily across timezones and geographies by phone, email and Web conference, but their...
- Tags: On-demand, NetSuite Inc., OneWorld Option, Sales Strategy, Sales, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2008-04-17
- Airport Security Concerns
- Airport Security ConcernsHey Ryan, What's going onHow is life over at eWeek?RE: RE: Airport Security ConcernsWhat can I say, I'm a pretty boy, Ryan. They took my cologne too!...Hear hear! Spoken like a true patriot! ]:)To paraphrase:Those who sacrafice liberty for securty deserve neither.- Ben FranklinRE: Actually, it isn't...
- Tags: Airport Security Concerns, airport security, security, liberty
- Discussion threads 2008-02-29
- Firm gets U.S. nod for quick passenger data checks
- Firm gets U.S. nod for quick passenger data checksQuick Passenger Data ChecksHas anyone ever heard of fake ids -- or this is a concept I just thought of? I understand what they are trying to do, but it should have been taken care of BEFORE getting on the plane....
- Tags: Vertical industries, Islamic, extremism, Islamic extremism, passenger data check, quick passenger data check, anti-American, government
- Discussion threads 2008-02-20
- Richard+Clarke+on+recent+Mideast+cable+outages
- Richard+Clarke+on+recent+Mideast+cable+outages9/11Think about what would have happened on 9/11 if an airliner would have taken out 60 Hudson Street in Manhattan, rather than the WTC. The 60 Hudson office is one of the most dense international communications hubs in the world. Voice, data including TV network feeds, Internet...
- Tags: Hudson
- Discussion threads 2008-02-06
- Fly the green skies at Mach 5
- The European Union has launched in 2005 its Long-Term Advanced Propulsion Concepts and Technologies project LAPCAT. Several companies worked on this €7 million EU-funded project. For example, Popular Science reports that Reaction Engines Limited has designed an hydrogen-powered hypersonic airliner simply dubbed A2. This plane would fly at Mach 5...
- Tags: Hydrogen, Plane, Concorde, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-01-31
- Virgin Galactic unveils SpaceShipTwo; Plans open architecture spaceship
- Virgin Galactic on Wednesday unveiled designs for SpaceShipTwo and the WhiteKnightTwo, two vehicles that are designed to usher in private spaceflight. The technology behind the system will have an open architecture "like Linux," said officials. In an event at the American Museum at Natural History in New...
- Tags: Event, Virgin Galactic, SpaceShipTwo, WhiteKnightTwo, Linux, Government, Internet, Microsoft Windows, Aerospace & Defense, UNIX, Operating Systems, Strategy, Open Source, Software, Manufacturing, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-01-23
- Let the lawsuits ensue
- Let the lawsuits ensueYeah right! Blame the car makers and BushGee! The liberals in CA and NY government could simply TAX gas guzzlers through sales tax or super high registration fees.A $6000 tax or registration fee on a Hummer would sure quell demand and Washington wouldn't have a thing...
- Tags: Taxes, Free trade, pollution, congestion pricing, lawsuit, tax, registration fee
- Discussion threads 2007-12-20
- Israel launches antihijack pilot ID system
- Israel launches antihijack pilot ID systemOne FlawPity the passengers of the drunk pilot that can't remmeber the proper code :-)RE: Israel launches antihijack pilot ID systemThe Terrorists aren't real. Who cares about a keypad when the planes are remotely controlled by their own governments?its all a bunch of smoke and...
- Tags: Government, MANPADS
- Discussion threads 2007-11-21
- Ellison: Where's the big money in SaaS?
- Oracle CEO Larry Ellison says software as a service and the small business markets are interesting, but not terribly profitable. In other words, Ellison largely dismissed SAP's Business ByDesign. But the dismissal isn't exactly what it seems. Ellison was speaking for Oracle and for the company a move downmarket...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Software-as-a-service, Oracle Corp., Middleware, SAP AG, Larry Ellison, IBM Corp., Software As A Service (SaaS), Emerging Technologies, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2007-09-21
- Smartbf33oards vs interactive whiteboards
- Smartbf33oards vs interactive whiteboardsSMART puts the Teacher firstThough I think that you have a valid point with the price structure of the Mimio. Being a former educator, I think that when a school is looking to purchase an interactive technology they really need to look at the whole picture. SMART...
- Tags: Corporate governance, SMART Technology, board, Smart Board, Smartbf33oards, interactive whiteboard, Mimio
- Discussion threads 2007-09-12
- Police agencies push for drone sky patrols
- Police agencies push for drone sky patrolsThey want to rush it, until......someone gets killed. When will they realize that a drone is not a model plane with a range of a few hundred feet. Will be all happy until a drone wanders away, crashes into an airliner and...
- Tags: Government, Vertical industries, Drone, sky patrol, Police Agencies
- Discussion threads 2007-08-09
- (Photos: The new world's tallest building)
- (Photos: The new world's tallest building)Ummmmm...Did ZDNet recently headhunt a bunch of writers & editors from Mechanics Illustrated or something? This looks way out of place here.The CN Tower, Toronto is 1815ft.The "Tower Dubai" is designed to eventually reach 2,651 ft. when completed - it was designed to have 162...
- Tags: photograph, CN Tower, Empire State Building, bushel
- Discussion threads 2007-07-23
- FCC fights the open source concept
- FCC fights the open source conceptAre you referring to this"From the FCC Notice:[i]The Commission hereby states that it is its policy, consistent with the intent of Cognitive Radio Report and Order and Cisco's request, that manufacturers should not intentionally make the distinctive elements that implement that manufacturer's particular security measures...
- Tags: Federal government, Advertising & Promotion, FLOSS, radio, FCC, open source, software, open source concept, duck
- Discussion threads 2007-07-06
- Tracking contaminated airline cabins
- With the numbers of airline passengers always increasing, the regulation authorities are more concerned than ever by the possible contamination of air cabins by contagious viruses, such as SARS or H5N1. This is why Purdue University researchers have developed a system that can track a pathogen substance to an area...
- Tags: Defense &, Security, Engineering &, Innovation, Health &, Medicine, Space &, Aerospace
- Blog posts 2007-05-30
- JetBlue fiasco: A database could have made a difference
- JetBlue fiasco: A database could have made a differenceThey were probably using an access database...and it fell over with all of the updates.Glad to know they're a MS Shop. I'll never fly them.Scary to think that they are running an airline on MS software. And proud of it.Guess...
- Tags: Storage, Databases, Achilles Heel, database, JetBlue Airways Corp., fiasco
- Discussion threads 2007-02-20
- Concorde Screensaver Delux (zip)
- A 3D graphics screensaver of the Concorde airplane, which was the only supersonic airliner and retired in October 2003. In the screensaver, the airplanes fly according to a simplified aerodynamics simulation rather than following a geometrically pre-defined path. The screensaver shows not only Concorde, but also a formation with Red...
- Tags: Screensaver
- Software downloads 2006-11-09
- Researchers chase goal of nonhijackable plane
- Researchers chase goal of nonhijackable planeFighting last decade's battlesDidn't you read the latest news on terrorists? They have GIVEN UP on trying to hijack planes. Their new tactic is to *just* blow up the plane to kill people. No hijacking required.SO why are "we" spending money on trying to create...
- Tags: Workforce management, Notebooks, training, business travel
- Discussion threads 2006-08-11
- Don't think portable electronic devices are a risk to flight? Think again
- Don't think portable electronic devices are a risk to flight? Think againElectronic devices in flightI don't think much of anything will be done about it until Congress enacts specific laws outlawing the use of these devices in flight.First problem happened right there to you! The scowling look of "don't try...
- Tags: Digital media, Digital music, goods price, cell phone
- Discussion threads 2006-04-10
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