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- Southwest Airlines looking at in-flight WiFi
- According to a story in the Denver Post, Southwesy Airlines is seriously considering a pilot program (sorry, couldnt resist) to test WiFi connectivity on its flights. I fly SWA all the time - I broke the 100 flights in 12 months threshold this year which means my wife can join...
- Tags: Productivity, Mobility, Hardware, Gadgetry
- Blog posts 2007-04-30
- American Airlines must die
- I have bad luck flying. I've mentioned before that I'm on a "special list" with the Department of Homeland Security cursed common Irish names which ensures that I can't use self-checkin kiosks at airports. Well, I've topped that. I arrived on Sunday at the American...
- Tags: American Airlines, Southwest Airlines Co.
- Blog posts 2006-07-31
- Southwest Airlines Supports Business-Critical Systems With Remedy and Vytek
- Southwest Airlines is the fourth largest carrier in the United States, with nearly 2,800 daily departures to cities in 30 states. The company's more than 35,000 employees provide legendary customer service to travelers in 58 cities across the nation. Remedy Help Desk offers the flexibility to specify alerts for all...
- Tags: Southwest Airlines Co., Remedy Corp., Remedy Help Desk, Help Desk, Call Centers, It Management, It Operations, It service Management
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- Southwest Airlines Flies High With Real-Time Flight Data
- In the airline industry, Southwest Airlines is considered a true maverick. By shaking up the rules of flying and improving upon inefficient industry norms, Southwest has quickly grown to the fourth-largest domestic carrier. SWIFT is a flight management tool consisting of applications for managing the fleet of aircraft and dispatching...
- Tags: TIBCO Software Inc., Southwest Airlines Co., Messaging, Groupware, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Management
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- The evolution of search over traditional BI
- Today's business intelligence tools are great at tracking tradional numbers but fail to quench business's thirst for more information says Commentary--A recent Gartner report predicts that IT’s involvement in business intelligence BI will diminish in time as business users adopt new technologies to quench...
- Tags: Payment, Data, Analyst, Information, Pricing, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Data Management, Management, business intelligence, search, Sid Probstein, Attivio
- News items 2008-07-22
- Airport security part 5: Snakes on planes? Check. Marshalls on planes? Nope.
- Airport security part 5: Snakes on planes? Check. Marshalls on planes? Nope.And used "roll" instead of "role" in the post"TSA actually discusses FAMs increasing roll post 9/11..."From this statement, I would guess that the TSA is somehow increasing their spin? ;)You misspelled 'Knew'on your poll ;-) ...
- Tags: Transportation, Airliners, Snake, airport security, Nate, Transportation Security Administration, Nope, Federal Reserve Board
- Discussion threads 2008-07-14
- 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
- Microsoft's never-ending pursuit of Yahoo: More awkward than an 8th grade dance
- Microsoft's never-ending pursuit of Yahoo: More awkward than an 8th grade danceCorporate Communism!This is an example of what I call Corportate Communism. Microsoft is showing it's anti-capitalist leanings. When companies like Microsoft can't compete in the market, they buy the competitor. Some argue that's capitalism. I...
- Tags: Mergers & Acquisitions, Government, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-07-02
- Fired up for new coal plant in Virginia
- The Commonwealth of Virginia has given the green light for a large coal-burning plant to generate electricity. It's planned for the southwest corner of the state and is expected to require lots more Virginia coal. The utility has promised to burn only coal mined in Virginia Opponents...
- Tags: Coal, Pollution, Plant, Virginia, Commonwealth Of Virginia, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-06-26
- More than 1 billion PCs now in use worldwide
- More than 1 billion PCs now in use worldwideYes. And that means over 950,000,000 of them......are running Windows. Have a nice day. :)...Try closer to 825,500,000... and you would be more accurate. ]:)But with replacements...... over a fairly brief period, the Windows pc's probably total 1.05 billion. Not...
- Tags: Operating systems, Desktops, UNIX, fantasy, PC, Microsoft Windows, Linux
- Discussion threads 2008-06-23
- Cell phone as desktop computer
- This is a bit of a crazy idea, but it constitutes part of the reason I keep harping on about the importance of full-blown desktop operating systems in cell phones. Yes, it creates developer consistency, meaning that the same skills used to develop apps for desktop computers map directly to...
- Tags: Desktop, Phone, Mobile, Cell Phone, Microsoft Corp., Computer, Desktop Computer, Microsoft Windows, Telecom & Utilities, Cellular Phones, Operating Systems, Software, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, John Carroll
- Blog posts 2008-06-20
- Airline Wi-Fi going mainstream: Bummer, being untethered was nice
- Aircell's Gogo, an airline Wi-Fi service, is about to go mainstream this summer and the Wall Street Journal's Walt Mossberg gives it a good review. Why aren't I more enthusiastic? As Mossberg notes, people are about to become more productive on airplanes or lose their last refuge...
- Tags: Airline, Aircell, Gogo, Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-06-19
- Finjan uncovers half a gigabyte of stolen data on crimeware servers
- Finjan's Malicious Code Research Center has uncovered a half of gigabyte of stolen data from US Healthcare organizations and from a major airline on crimeware servers in Argentina and Malaysia. A representative of Finjan stated: "Hackers incorporated sophisticated attacks using crimeware toolkits, Trojans, and Command and...
- Tags: Web, Patient, Data, Finjan Software Inc., Health Care, Server, Cybercriminal, Crimeserver, Vertical Industries, Healthcare, Benefits, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Social Security, Channel Management, Security, Viruses And Worms, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Government, Marketing, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-06-18
- Kyte and Qik engaged in neck-and-neck streaming video race
- Robert Scoble created quite the social media stir last weekend with his TechCrunch guest article on why he thinks Kyte will win the cell phone video race over Qik and Flixwagon. But is there really a race? While it's true that the users ultimately dictate the market...
- Tags: Advertisement, Phone, Streaming Video, Cell Phone, Video, Qik, Kyte, Corporate Communications, Cellular Phones, Marketing, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Jennifer Leggio
- Blog posts 2008-06-17
- Delta Airlines pioneers biometric aiport security screening
- Delta Airlines pioneers biometric aiport security screeningAll airports pleasePlease oh Please roll this out to all airports!!! Did I say please?Ah the efficiency of BIG BROTHER!Now if only essential government services supposedly designed to help people were so expedient.What was the reason for all this prove your innocence before...
- Tags: Delta Air Lines Inc., security
- Discussion threads 2008-06-17
- News to know: Adobe; XP era ends; Enterprise 2.0; Apple
- Notable headlines: Dancho Danchev: How to recover GPcode encrypted files? Larry Dignan: Adobe ups outlook; Creative Suite chugs along XP era ends: Will Vista step up? Techmeme eBay: New belle of Microsoft's merger ball? MySpace plays more spam Whac-a-Mole;...
- Tags: Software, Adobe Systems Inc., Larry Dignan, Microsoft Windows XP, Apple Inc., Enterprise 2.0, Mergers & Acquisitions, Internet, Tools & Techniques, Channel Management, Investment, Finance, Management, Marketing
- Blog posts 2008-06-17
- 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
- Global warming: a fish story, and your health
- Global warming: a fish story, and your healthSpecies come, species goGlobal warming positivies :Organisms can grow and develop at faster rates, thus bringing us new species more rapidly.Plants will grow more quickly, taking more CO2 from the atmosphere. The warmer it gets, the harder vegetation will work to remove CO2....
- Tags: High-altitude habitat, health care, forest, global warming, species
- Discussion threads 2008-06-16
- Here comes the video conferencing boom
- Gas is high. Airlines are nickel and diming you to death. And your employees are getting squeezed. This state of travel could put video conferencing over the top. We've all heard this video conferencing rap before. It goes like this. Video conferencing is like a real-life meeting...
- Tags: Video Conferencing, Surcharge, Video, US Airways Group Inc., Definition Video, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-06-13
- 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
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