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- Virgin Atlantic Airways Pilots Radio Frequency Identification With Oracle and Tata Consultancy Services
- Since it was founded in 1984, Virgin Atlantic Airways, as a company, is always looking for ways to take advantage of technological advancement. The aviation industry is gradually moving toward RFID standards, and the company wanted to ensure that when these are agreed, Virgin Atlantic will be well placed to...
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- Microsoft joins HTML 5 standard fray in earnest
- Real standards[i]"That's important because Microsoft has of late embraced a standard-centric philosophy when it comes to what technology IE supports, and IE is of course the dominant browser on the market."[/i]Microsoft has never been particularly keen on supporting real standards, they've always preferred their own formats to maintain their monopoly.IE...
- Discussion threads 2009-08-10
- To the Moon: Rocketdyne, Keeper of the Flame
- The historic Apollo 11 mission in July of 1969 culminated in the first manned moon landing. While many of the proud Americans who were involved in that project are no longer with us 40 years later, the technologies they built still live on, will be further refined, and will return...
- Blog posts 2009-07-15
- To the Moon: Boeing, the Rocket Foundry
- The historic Apollo 11 mission in July of 1969 culminated in the first manned moon landing. While many of the proud Americans who were involved in that project are no longer with us 40 years later, the technologies they built still live on, will be further refined, and will return...
- Blog posts 2009-07-10
- Airlines on Climate: Don't blame us blame the Banks
- I've posted before in these pages about how the business lobby, under pressure to respond to climate change, is starting to fracture. There was another dramatic example of this yesterday in Kuala Lumpur at the annual general meeting of the International Air Transport Association IATA when the CEO, Giovanni Bisignani, took an...
- Blog posts 2009-06-09
- International Airlines to UN: Set us a CO2 Target Now (but US carriers still ponder)
- People in business often speak of NGO's in a kind of wide eyed way, a mixture of fear and curiosity, but most vastly under estimate their capability. Granted, NGOs are as diverse as businesses - some are hopeless, some perform magnificently. For illustration of the latter & the potency of a sophisticated and intelligent NGO, then look no...
- Blog posts 2009-04-09
- (Photos: Terrafugia's flying car flies)
- (Photos: Terrafugia's flying car flies)Terrafugia?I'm geeky enough to appreciate the latin, but that name sucks. It's too geeky even for a geek.This is pretty cool, but there is no way I'd subject it to road driving with the morons I dodge on a daily basis. Can you imagine the...
- Discussion threads 2009-03-19
- USB 3.0 arriving - bring on the speed
- USB 3.0 arriving - bring on the speedsweet!ntNice.Nice. No more slow external drives. I've always had a tendency to avoid external drives for that reason.eSATA is nice as well, but it was for drives only.why it took so long?USB3 has been in works for many years.Initially the big selling point...
- Discussion threads 2009-01-13
- How Orlando Sanford International Airport Deployed an Innovative WAVEPowered IP Crash Phone System
- First and foremost, SAA needed a crash phone system that offered near infallible reliability. As a close second, they desired a system that they could completely manage and maintain using responsive, cost-effective in-house personnel, and ideally, existing hardware. And obviously, given the state of their existing crash phone, they needed...
- Case studies 2009-01-01
- Supercomputing Company Chooses Windows HPC Server 2008 Over Linux
- Many of China's largest organizations, from government departments to aviation and space companies, rely on Dawning Information Industry Company for High-Performance Computing HPC. In fact, the company owns more than 30 percent of the country's HPC market. Dawning previously used Linux HPC operating systems on its computers, but it wanted...
- Case studies 2008-11-01
- GE's SaaS launch validates Aravo, a salesforce.com for supply chain
- Think for a minute about the third-party vendors who service your company - the folks who run the cafeteria, deliver office paper, clean the restrooms or provide security services, just to name a few. Now, think about a company the size of General Electric, an international conglomerate with more than...
- Blog posts 2008-10-30
- How green is your vendor?
- How green is your vendor?Be green and make green - IT needs to be both.I agree, Green IT really is an oxymoron; insofar as green anything is – green aviation, green motoring, green petrochemical industry, etc. But that doesn't mean that we shouldn't be improving the carbon footprint of the...
- Discussion threads 2008-10-16
- Providing Safe Connections for Global Logistics Leader
- Swissport International Ltd, provides ground services for over 70 million passengers and 3.2 million tons of cargo a year on behalf of some 650 client companies. The past decade has seen a major shakeout in the aviation industry, with deregulation, and steadily greater pressure on costs, resulting in many high...
- Case studies 2008-10-03
- 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?...
- Discussion threads 2008-09-02
- Multi-Domain RFID Access Control Using Asymmetric Key Based Tag-Reader Mutual Authentication
- Multi-domain RFID applications, such as asset tracking across domains, shift the paradigm in business model and enable next-generation business processes for aviation industry. The increasing number of RFID applications also merits the consolidation of RFID tags so they can serve multiple purposes. However, the adoption of such multi-domain RFID applications...
- White papers 2008-06-20
- RFID in Aviation: Airport Luggage Control
- There is a strong potential for implementation of recent IT technologies in aviation, such as RFID Radio Frequency Identification. Major aviation industry players, such as IATA International Air transport Association, Boeing or Airbus have recognized the potential huge savings and benefits of such technology being incorporated on a large scale...
- White papers 2008-06-01
- Epicor Software Case Study: AvMed Health Plans
- Deriving its name from "Aviation medicine," AvMed Health Plans was created in 1969 as a prepaid health care system for pilots in Miami's aviation industry. They were spending millions in maintenance cost. After current software provider was acquired, they saw the writing on the wall. Cost was only going to...
- Case studies 2008-04-17
- What is a sustainable business anyway?
- Once you penetrate some of the sustainability hype the key question at board level is this: what action are you actually prepared to take? For a problem like climate change, where there is no regulatory hurdle and action is voluntary though enlightened by self interest, what action is enough? ...
- Blog posts 2008-04-10
- How to detect network vulnerabilities?
- Computer scientists at George Mason University GMU have developed a new software to identify complex cyber network attacks. This software is named CAULDRON (short for 'Combinatorial Analysis Utilizing Logical Dependencies Residing on Networks'). The developers claim that CAULDRON 'can reduce the impact of cyber attacks by identifying the possible vulnerability...
- Blog posts 2008-03-18
- Data Centers Are Adopting Green Initiatives But Are Wary of Vendors' Marketing Messages
- The IT industry and business in general are slowly waking up to the impact they are having on the environment. While the newspaper headlines target the growth of cheap flights as a leading cause of global warming, some commentators have suggested the IT industry is responsible for more carbon emissions...
- White papers 2008-03-11
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