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- Continental's TSA Airport Security is decidedly Un-CLEAR
- Continental's TSA Airport Security is decidedly Un-CLEARTotally mootSorry, but Continental could have $5 international tickets and total no-wait-at-all boarding. Whatever it is that they've done to their seats is enough that quite a few of us (and I've had seatmates with the same reaction) only subject ourselves to the...
- Tags: security, Continental, Transportation Security Administration, airport security
- Discussion threads 2008-06-12
- Continental passengers can use their phone as their boarding pass
- Continental passengers can use their phone as their boarding passNot Soon EnoughAs I regularly fly Continental not the Houston route though I would love to have this now.......For the business traveler this look like it will be a much appreciated tool.
- Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Continental, phone
- Discussion threads 2007-12-08
- Who owns the air?
- Who owns the air?What has open source to do with it?Or is that just a silly attempt to get the words "open source" into every blog/article?We the PeopleBy virtue of the Interstate Commerce Clause and the Federal Communication Act 0f 1934 et Al. A) Unlicensed is wrong since all of...
- Tags: Government, Continental, open source
- Discussion threads 2005-08-05
- Who owns the air?
- Unlicensed frequencies are supposed to be open to anyone who puts in a device that conforms to regulations.But what if your landlord says you can't, because they want to sell access to the unlicensed frequency?A court may have to decide this one. As Declan McCullagh reports, Logan Airport is trying...
- Tags: Massport
- Blog posts 2005-08-05
- Boston airport tries to kill free WiFi node
- Boston airport tries to kill free WiFi node7.,95 a day...7.95 a day for service from the airport, versus free from Continental.I never spend a whole day at the airport, unless I got snowed in. Is 7.95 a day fair? I can see how the airport views this...
- Tags: Wireless LANs, WIRELESS, Wi-Fi, Logan, Continental
- Discussion threads 2005-08-03
- Continental gets it right where Starbucks doesn't
- Just when I said, in the process of complaining about paid Wi-Fi at Starbucks, that I could understand why I might have to pay for Wi-Fi in an airport as opposed to paying for it at a retail establishment or fast food restaurant (for which there's plenty of competition), Continental Airlines...
- Tags: Wi-Fi
- Blog posts 2004-07-12
- 13.8 mln savvy Internet users in UK
- Continental Research reports 13.8 million people in the UK are 'online savvy' and have either make online purchases or have conducted some sort of transaction online. Specifically, Continental finds that 5.8 million (22%) have bought airline tickets online, 5.2 million (20%) have conducted an online banking transaction and 3.1 million...
- Tags: Continental
- Blog posts 2004-02-11
- In-flight e-mail numbers
- Customers access JetConnect by plugging their laptops into jacks on Verizon Airfone handsets on seatbacks of 123 Continental and 110 United planes. Those numbers will grow to 411 for Continental and 525 for United by year's end, and Cathay Pacific will equip its entire 75-plane fleet with JetConnect next year.
- Tags: United, Continental
- Blog posts 2003-10-01
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- Google journeys to the center of the earth (well not quite) with latest alternative energy foray
- Apparently Google's philanthropic arm isn't content investing in just one source of alternative energy, which makes sense considering the geographic diversity of the planet we live on. The search and business applications giant last week said it will put up about $10.25 million toward energy technology called enhanced geothermal systems...
- Tags: Alternative Energy, Google Inc., Geothermal Energy, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-08-25
- CISCO: Why the Olympics didn't melt NBC
- Yesterday I posted about how Limelight Networks was used as the primary caching content provider for NBCOlympics.com and lifted a huge burden off on the public Internet by leveraging relationships with last mile ISPs. It's an amazing story about how technology can be used to solve immense problems. ...
- Tags: Olympic Games, NBC, Video, Cisco Systems Inc., Camera, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-08-18
- Top aviation search terms in June 2008
- Rank Search Term Volume 1. southwest airlines 8.86% 2. american airlines 3.80% 3. united airlines 2.97% 4. continental airlines 2.72% 5. delta airlines 2.54% 6. us airways 2.20% 7. northwest airlines 2.04% 8. southwest.com...
- Tags: Airline, NB
- Blog posts 2008-08-18
- Limelight Networks: Why the Olympics didn't 'Melt' the Internet
- I admit it, even I was skeptical. When I received the first demonstration of the Silverlight plugin and the NBCOlympics.com web site back in March of this year at the 2008 Microsoft Technology Summit, where a group of Open Source experts gathered from around the world were asked for feedback...
- Tags: Olympic Games, NBC, Network, Internet Service Provider, Video, Akamai Technologies Inc., Limelight Networks, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Corporate Communications, Data Centers, Internet, Microsoft Windows, Marketing, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Operating Systems, Software, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-08-17
- Fossil fuel prices and the men who hate them
- Fossil fuel prices and the men who hate themAirline fares are too lowEver since deregulation, airlines have allowed themselves to be sucked into a ridiculous, never ending price war.As a result, they've been forced to fly at max capacity just to break even on any given flight. That need...
- Tags: FUEL PRICES, airline fare, oil, fare, fossil fuel
- Discussion threads 2008-07-30
- Microsoft may need an IBM moment of clarity
- Microsoft may need an IBM moment of clarityBingo! ntnt"insanely profitable"Yes, IBM retained those parts of its business in which it was possible to obtain a huge markup and not worry as much about performance compared to alternatives.Microsoft already has part of that approach, as witness the markup on software. ...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, Microsoft Corp., IBM Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-07-25
- Top aviation search terms
- Rank Search Term Volume 1. southwest airlines 8.11% 2. american airlines 3.98% 3. continental airlines 2.73% 4. delta airlines 2.59% 5. united airlines 2.57% 6. us airways 2.18% 7. southwest 1.92% 8. northwest airlines...
- Tags: Airline, NB
- Blog posts 2008-07-10
- Delta Airlines pioneers biometric aiport security screening
- As predicted in my previous post about Continental Airlines' actively obstructive behavior in order to prevent access to CLEAR lanes in its major airport hubs, a major competing airline, Delta Airlines threw down the gauntlet this morning as the first major domestic US air carrier to...
- Tags: Security, Delta Air Lines Inc., Clear, Business Structures, Finance, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-06-16
- Continental's TSA Airport Security is decidedly Un-CLEAR
- As some of you may know, my job as a systems architect for one of the world's largest systems integration firms requires that I do a large amount of travel. Typically, I'm away from home about four days out of the week. Naturally, this results in going through a lot...
- Tags: Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-06-12
- Americans growing their own: veggies this time
- Americans growing their own: veggies this timeGood idea.When I was a kid we always had a vegetable garden in the suburbs. Tomatoes, cucumbers carrorts and lettuce. That way you don't have to worry about what type of pesticides companies use. Not only that, they taste so much better, especially the...
- Tags: lawn, herb
- Discussion threads 2008-06-12
- Prices up, consumption down--market economics working for gasoline consumers?
- Prices up, consumption down--market economics working for gasoline consumers?Don't PanicSomeone should write "A Hitchiker's Guide to the Fake Oil Crisis."American's are freaking out because we cannot drive our monster SUV's from the distant suburbs each day to work. Two SUV families where mom and dad each take one over 30...
- Tags: Gas Prices, SUV, government, Sure China
- Discussion threads 2008-06-11
- Two small countries thinking big, and green
- Two small nations on opposite sides of the globe are building world class renewable energy proejcts. In Portugal they're constructing what will become, temporarily at least, the largest solar generating plant on earth. It's going into eastern Portugal near the town of Moura. This photovoltaic farm is...
- Tags: Turbine, U.K., Portugal, Telecom & Utilities, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-06-08
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