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Aussie Airports (zip)

Aussie Airports contains information on over 250 airports around Australia. Information includes 11 common frequencies needed when approaching, landing, and taxiing around an airport. Navigation frequencies included are VOR, DME, and NDB frequencies. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.

Tags: Frequency, Airport, AvForce Software, Aussie Airports

Software downloads 2008-10-03

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Facial recognition systems for border security

Facial recognition systems are used around the world to check very quickly if an individual's photo appears in a database of known or suspected criminals. Unfortunately, the systems often acquire poor facial images in real-world environments such as airports. Now, researchers at the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology...

Tags: Facial Recognition, Border Security, Image, Camera, NIST, Facial Recognition System, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-11-26

Airport Retailer Gains Real-Time Insight into Inventory with New Business Solution

InMotion Entertainment is the largest electronics airport retailer in the nation. With more than 50 stores located in 33 airports, InMotion delivers portable entertainment to the travelers market. For years, InMotion faced inventory control issues due to limited store space, and plans to merge with another airport retailer only added...

Tags: Retail Company, Microsoft Corp., InMotion Entertainment, Retail, Sales Strategy, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Strategy, Sales, Enterprise Software, Software, Management

Case studies 2008-11-07

Free AT&T WiFi access for iPhones (again)

Back in May AT&T started then stopped offering free Wi-Fi several times to iPhone subscribers at its corporately owned hotspots across the U.S. Today, my co-host on the PowerPage Podcast Rob Parker just received a text message from AT&T stating the that the service is back on...

Tags: Apple iPhone, HotSpot, AT&T Corp., Wi-Fi, Wireless, Wireless LANs, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-10-29

The challenges of travel for the disabled

The challenges of travel for the disabledTrust me. You do not have to havea disability to have the opportunity to "aquaint" yourself with the person you described in your article [i](He wouldn’t back off and kept trying to block our access ot the asile.)[/i]One has to wonder what kind of...

Tags: family member

Discussion threads 2008-10-24

News to know: Microsoft's outlook, emergency patch; Apple; Amazon's cloud; Yang speaks

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Sam Diaz: Fake Steve Jobs heart attack story posted by teenager. Bloomberg: Jobs Said to Be Targeted by Teen in Heart-Attack Tale Jason O'Grady: SEC examining teen's motive in fake...

Tags: Layoff, Larry Dignan, Apple Inc., Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Workforce Management, Linux, Operating Systems, Software, Human Resources

Blog posts 2008-10-24

DHS takes over flight lists from airports

DHS takes over flight lists from airportsA PityOne must wonder whether DHS can succeed in improving airline travel to complete bankruptcy.

Tags: Litigation, U.S. Department of Homeland Security

Discussion threads 2008-10-23

DHS takes over flight lists from airports

Another black eye for the privatization of public tasks: The Department of Homeland Security is taking over from the airlines the job of checking airline passenger names against watch lists, the Washington Post reports. by Richard Koman

Tags: U.S. Department Of Homeland Security, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Richard Koman, Productivity, Government, Security

Blog posts 2008-10-23

Amazon Kindle: It's not for us, Jack

My grubby hands on the Amazon Kindle at Continental Airlines' Presidents Club Lounge at  Newark Liberty International Airport. See Jason's Amazon Kindle Gallery. As I've discussed in this column before, I spend about 4 days a week away from home and about 8...

Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Amazon Kindle, Kindle, Arthur C. Clarke, E-books, Wireless LANs, Personal Technology, Wireless, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-10-21

Why bother with desktop virtualization?

Why bother with desktop virtualization?PortabilityNo matter where you are, there you are.Sit down at a workstation and light up your working environment. No need to drag the hardware with you, which ranges from annoying to hazardous, what with laptops being popular targets for confiscation at airports. Especially since...

Tags: desktop virtualization, desktop, English Language, virtualization

Discussion threads 2008-10-06

Americans Hate Flying - Consultants Must Really Loathe It

Can't We Have a More Civilized Flying World? c Several media outlets picked up on a study released by the Travel Industry Association last week that indicated that 41 million Americans are forgoing air travel due to the hassles involved in doing so today....

Tags: Security, Southwest Airlines Co., Beverage, Entertainment, Carrier, Food & Beverage, Advertising & Promotion, Manufacturing, Marketing, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2008-09-23

Google makes waves and may have solved the data center conundrum

Google makes waves and may have solved the data center conundrumEasy Terrorism Target?As we rely more and more on the Net, who will defend these floating farms in a no jurisdiction, no taxes, etc, area?Any protection from pirates and terrorist?Firstly, I think this google 'solution' is cool. However as my...

Tags: Data centers, Storage, Google Makes, Google Inc., data center

Discussion threads 2008-09-08

FAA outage due to 'fix-on-fail' policy

FAA outage due to 'fix-on-fail' policyThis is a surprise???Is anyone surprised that the government holds itself to a lower standard than anyone it regulates? Congress routinely exempts itself from laws that everyone else has to follow. Can you imagine the airlines being allowed to use such a policy on aircraft?...

Tags: Government, Manufacturing, Aerospace & Defense, Recruitment & Selection, Forcast, FAA

Discussion threads 2008-09-02

FAA computer failure slows nationwide air traffic

A computer problem at the Federal Aviation Administration center in Atlanta has created air traffic problems across the country. From WSB Radio in Atlanta: FAA Computer Problems: Failure in the system that processes flight plans in the eastern U.S. FAA says no danger is involved. System...

Tags: FAA, Atlanta, Computer, Productivity, Manufacturing, Michael Krigsman

Blog posts 2008-08-26

Office 2.0: an Irregular mashup

The upcoming Office 2.0 conference is one of the first in the fall calendar that keeps people like me in more airports than I care to think about. It's also one for which I have fond memories. Office 2.0 started out as an idea put out into the Enterprise Irregulars'...

Tags: Innovation, Conference, Office 2.0, Mashup, Unconference Session, Ross, Susan Scrupski, Zoli Erdos, Vinnie Mirchandani, Vinnie, David Tebbutt, Leadership, Strategy, Management, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-08-25

TSA makes laptop travel easier - or not?

Just when you think the federal government has come up with a plan to make the security process at airports more efficient, it turns out that the fine line in security is now blurrier than ever and I suspect the wait times at security checkpoints will actually grow longer. ...

Tags: Security, Transportation Security Administration, Laptop Computer, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-08-15

Best Buy goes kiosk

Best Buy is rolling out automated kiosks to pitch its wares to travelers in 12 major airports. The effort, dubbed Best Buy Express, will be launched with ZoomSystems. ZoomSystems makes automated stores for Apple's iPod, Sony, Rosetta Stone and Macy's. Most of Best Buy's...

Tags: best buy co. inc., kiosk, games, digital music, digital media, personal technology, consumer electronics, larry dignan

Blog posts 2008-08-11

Unique corporate service relies on good human nature

Last week I was on a call with Frank Hannigan, Managing Director of YouGetItBack.com, and quite possibly the best thing to come out of Ireland since Guinness. YouGetItBack is a lost and found company, the idea created in 2004, probably from a drunken...

Tags: phone, mobile, service, yougetitback, o2 bluebook, advertising & promotion, marketing, zack whittaker

Blog posts 2008-08-11

CLEAR has a "Senior Moment"

AP Newswire is reporting this morning that CLEAR has found a laptop  also see CLEAR Press Release that had gone missing for over a week from one of its kiosk locations that contained the "personal data" of over 30,000 enrolled members at San Francisco International Airport,...

Tags: Clear, Enrollment, Laptop Computer, AP Newswire, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-08-06

Where are the expense management startups and Dirty SaaS?

My Irregular chums have been fiercely debating the need and merit of a sensible expense management solution that combines the best of online purchasing with accounting and the ability to re-bill (where appropriate.) It all started when there was a discussion around Concur and Rearden Commerce...

Tags: Software-as-a-service, Receipt, Microsoft Corp., Zoli Erdos, Vinnie, MDI, Microsoft Excel, Software As A Service (SaaS), Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Emerging Technologies, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-08-04