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Live from 40,000 feet: Southwest Airlines WiFi

Live from 40,000 feet: Southwest Airlines WiFiDid you know beforehand?Did you know you would be on a plane with wifi? Where there any signs on the plane? Obviously planes break and plans can change, so even if you booked a seat on a wifi plane you may not get...

Tags: Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Southwest Airlines WiFi, Southwest Airlines Co.

Discussion threads 2009-03-21

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Free WiFi from Google - On airplains

WTF is an "airplain"?Is it the air above Kansas?It is for reasons like your comment......that you are no longer allowed in Kansas !!!RE: Free WiFi from Google - On airplainsWill this be safe... they ban phone and communication devices with a well known reason... and Internet on Plane can be...

Tags: Wireless LANs, Telecom & Utilities, Cellular phones, WTF, phone, cell phone, Wi-Fi, Free Wifi, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-10-20

News to know: Salesforce.com; Office; SOA; Facebook

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily.  For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Sam Diaz: Salesforce announces Twitter app; further validates power of cloud Ed Bott: Next Office version to ship in 32-bit and 64-bit versions ...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Apple iPhone, Facebook, Larry Dignan, Information Technology, Microsoft Office, Apple Inc., SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Browsers, Digital Music, Strategy, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Internet, Personal Technology, Management

Blog posts 2009-03-23

Live from 40,000+ feet: Southwest Airlines WiFi

Now, there's no excuse for your work to be late My flight tonight is a special wi-fi equipped Southwest Airlines jet with free wi-fi on-board. This post is hitting the ZDNet mother server via this aircraft as we cross over Colorado. How’s it...

Tags: Southwest Airlines Co., Aircraft, Netbook, Wireless LANs, E-mail, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Wi-Fi, Wireless And Mobility, Online Communications, Hardware, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-03-20

Americans Hate Flying - Consultants Must Really Loathe It

Americans Hate Flying - Consultants Must Really Loathe ItDelta doesn't seem all that bad......but maybe it's just in comparison with US Airways which held the franchise at the local airport just before them. They'll even let you bring food on the plane, and they have a real live flight...

Tags: Benefits, Food & Beverage, Americans Hate Flying

Discussion threads 2008-09-23

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

Will terror push us into the coud?

A couple of days ago, I wrote about the "need" for a Web OS and opined that replication of what already works is not likely to influence the vast majority of PC users to the cloud. I concluded that post by saying the following: ...

Tags: cloud, laptop computer

Blog posts 2006-08-11

Will terror push us into the cloud?

A couple of days ago, I wrote about the "need" for a Web OS and opined that replication of what already works is not likely to influence the vast majority of PC users to the cloud. I concluded that post by saying the following: "That movement will be driven...

Tags: laptop computer, cloud

Blog posts 2006-08-11