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- McCarran Airport Takes Off to Aruba With Nation's Largest Free Wi-Fi Deployment
- When the IT department of the Las Vegas McCarran International Airport, the seventh largest destination airport in the United States, decided to provide the largest free public and private airport-wide Wireless Fidelity (Wi-Fi) service in the country, the security, scalability and control of the network were paramount concerns. The airport...
- Tags: Security, WLAN, Airport, Aruba Networks, McCarran Airport, Wireless LANs, LANs, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Networking
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- 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
- Apple iPhone ad banned
- The Advertising Standards Authority has banned an ad for the iPhone which promised users access to "all parts of the Internet" on their Apple device. The Advertising Standards Authority ASA has banned an ad for the iPhone which promised users access to "all parts of the Internet" on their...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Advertisement, Apple Inc., Advertising Standards Authority, Internet, iPhone, Apple, advertising, Jo Best, Silicon.com
- News items 2008-08-27
- Vpax Virtual Passenger Screensaver (exe)
- Fasten your seatbelt, sit back, relax, and become a virtual passenger onboard a Boeing 747-400 during its final descent into London Heathrow airport. Real video footage, over 8 minutes long, steady uninterrupted footage, perfect for any aviation enthusiast.This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.
- Tags: Footage, Screensaver, Video, Passenger, VPAX Software, Corporate Communications, Marketing
- Software downloads 2008-08-26
- Is the enterprise ready for cloud computing?
- Guest post: This is a post by Barry X Lynn, CEO of 3Tera, in response to a discussion about whether cloud computing is industrial strength. Lynn can be found on the 3Tera blog. There have been multiple white papers and articles written on the topic -...
- Tags: Application, Data Center, Enterprise, Data Centers, Storage, Cloud Computing, Hardware, Data Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-19
- Surviving a lightning strike: Shock and awe
- Surviving a lightning strike: Shock and awe.....So what, you lost some electronics and doo dads. You and your's are alive, that's what is important. The electronics can be replaced, repaired and data recovered from back-ups I know you have them. The fact that you consider losing your electronics harmful is...
- Tags: Desktops, Telecom & Utilities, Network technology, security system, lightning strike, electronics, strike
- Discussion threads 2008-08-18
- Dell rolls out new Latitude laptop lineup; Targets longer battery life
- Dell on Tuesday rolled out its revamped lineup of nine new Latitude and Precision laptops and trumpeted longer batter life and designs that appeal to the so-called digital nomad--the person roaming the airport for a coveted outlet to plug in his laptop. The company said the new...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Battery, Dell Latitude, Laptop Computer, AC Power Adapter, Latitude E5400, Precision M2400, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-12
- 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
- News to know: Microsoft's Fiji; Apple; Green IT
- Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft finally speaks out on 'Fiji' Zack Whittaker: Windows Fiji: a world class failure Gallery: Windows Fiji - Screenshots right Gallery: Windows Fiji - Setup Garett Rogers: Google Translate for iPhone has...
- Tags: apple iphone, larry dignan, green it, apple inc., microsoft corp., microsoft windows, e-mail, operating systems, software, online communications
- Blog posts 2008-08-11
- Qantas IT problems cause Sydney airport "chaos"
- Poor staff training on Qantas' new Altea Departure Control-Flight Management system led to delays on flights departing from Sydney, Australia. Given the airline's poor IT record, no one should be surprised. by Michael Krigsman
- Tags: information technology, qantas airways ltd., australian it, strategy, management, michael krigsman
- Blog posts 2008-08-08
- TSA vendor finds lost laptop, remains suspended
- Travelers who use the Transportation Security Administration's Registered Traveler program might be verified as good security risks but the same can't be said about Steven Brill's Verified Identity Pass, one of the TSA vendors that operates the program. VIP, under the brand name Clear, lost a laptop containing...
- Tags: transportation security administration, laptop computer, vip, notebooks, hardware, notebooks & tablets, richard koman
- Blog posts 2008-08-06
- 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
- Recent IT failures roundup: Airports; jail system; angry travellers
- Recent IT failures roundup: Airports; jail system; angry travellersI like this formatIt's always fun to read about somebody else's major failures. :)RE: Recent IT failures roundup: Airports; jail system; angry travellersThe format's nice but you left out the link to the Reuters article on the Chinese airport passenger revolt.(flunky to...
- Tags: angry traveller, traveller, IT Failure, airport boss, information technology
- Discussion threads 2008-08-01
- Photos: America's biggest air show in Oshkosh, by gosh
- Each year, hundreds of thousands of air travel enthusiasts swoop into the Oshkosh, Wisc., airport for a weeklong homage to flying machines. by CNET News.com
- Tags: Wisconsin, Photograph, CNET News.com
- Image galleries 2008-08-01
- My Awesome IT Job: Senior vice president, CA
- Hey, we all complain about work from time to time; we've all had lousy jobs. But before you call it a day and head off to the support group that meets at the bar, here are a few words from an IT pro that love their work. ...
- Tags: Information Technology, Computer Associates International Inc., Strategy, Team Management, Management, Deb Perelman
- Blog posts 2008-08-01
- The Ultimate Geek Vending Machine
- Imagine my surprise when I spotted this vending machine on a recent trip to Minneapolis. Stationed in Concourse E of the Lindbergh terminal of Minneapolis-St. Paul International, this machine has been in operation at least since late 2007. Although this machine is missing the essentials such...
- Tags: Apple iPod, Machine, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-08-01
- Toyota tinkers with baby Segways
- Toyota on Friday announced that it is tinkering with a robot called the Winglet, which technically is "a personal transport assistance robot ridden in a standing position." Translation: Toyota may be eyeballing Segway's turf. The automaker said in a statement that the Winglet is still being refined,...
- Tags: Toyota Motor Corp., Robots, Emerging Technologies, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-01
- IT failures roundup: Airports; jail system; angry travellers
- To describe more failures than one lone blogger could possibly investigate himself, here's a new type of post: the IT failures roundup. I'll periodically report on interesting failures using a brief, overview format. JFK airport baggage handling system goes down. American Airlines scored...
- Tags: Software, Information Technology, Failure, Tools & Techniques, Productivity, Networking, Management, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2008-08-01
- Disasters at Whistler raining on Mozilla's summer parade
- A rock slide, power outage and loss of a top engineer of Firefox 3 have some attendees of Mozilla's 2008 summer summit wondering if the ghosts in Redmond aren't raining on their parade. The Firefox summit is behing held at, ahem, Whistler, the code name of Microsoft's Windows XP. First, a giant rock...
- Tags: Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Corp., Summit, Firefox Summit, Web Browsers, Microsoft Windows, Internet, Operating Systems, Software, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2008-07-31
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