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Wi-Fi while you fly

Imagine sending e-mails, browsing blogs, and booking your next trip with ease while soaring above the clouds. CNET's Kara Tsuboi tests out Virgin America's new in-flight Wi-Fi service and concludes that we'll no longer be able to slack off during a business trip again.

Tags: Wireless LANs, Wireless, News, kara tsuboi, virgin airlines, wi-fi, internet, cell phones, laptops, sfo, flying

Videos 2008-11-25

Additional Resources

Free WiFi from Google - On airplanes

For a couple months, Google is set to give away wireless internet access on Virgin Airlines in the United States beginning November 10th. Whether it's using Gmail to confirm an airport pick up time with your brother, doing some last minute gift shopping for your niece on Google Product...

Tags: Google Inc., Internet, Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Wireless And Mobility, Garett Rogers

Blog posts 2009-10-20

US Airways to launch Gogo in-flight Internet next year

US Airways has announced that it will install Gogo in-flight Internet on select planes in early 2010. The Gogo service, powered by Aircell, will be added to the company's fleet of 50 Airbus A321 aircraft, or about 14 percent of its entire fleet....

Tags: Flight, US Airways Group Inc., Gogo, Internet, Wireless LANs, Advertising & Promotion, Aerospace & Defense, Wireless And Mobility, Marketing, Manufacturing, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-07-23

Enterprise 2.0 conference impressions

I'm in seat 14c on a Virgin America flight back from Boston to San Francisco after an exhilarating Enterprise 2.0 Conference. There's a lot of similarities between this airline and the Enterprise 2.0 movement. The plane has wifi and a good modern user experience but essentially...

Tags: Microsoft SharePoint, Enterprise 2.0, Conference, Collaboration Environment, Sharepoint Plan, Collaboration, Groupware, Content Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-06-25

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...

Tags: Bank, Carbon, Climate, Climate Group, Government, James Farrar, Management, Strategy, UK Air Passenger Duty

Blog posts 2009-06-09

Would you use in-flight Wi-Fi? (Would you pay for it?)

Would you pay for wireless Internet connectivity on a plane if it were available? Are there certain flights you would consider doing so such as intercontinental versus those you wouldn't domestic? A neat article by Joe Sharkey in the New York Times today details...

Tags: Flight, AirTran Airways, Sharkey, Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Wireless And Mobility, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-05-19

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...

Tags: Aviation, Carbon, Carbon Dioxide, Carrier, Climate Group, Emission, James Farrar, Management, Nancy, Strategy

Blog posts 2009-04-09

US-CERT: Beware of airline ticket e-mail scam

The United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) has issued an alert for an e-mail scam targeting holiday travelers, warning that malware authors are using clever social engineering tactics to hijack Windows computers. In the e-mail scam, users get a .zip file attached to a message about...

Tags: Malware, Social Engineering, US-CERT, E-mail, Viruses And Worms, Online Communications, Security, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2008-12-12

Transitioning NASA: Tensions high between Griffin, transition team

Transitioning NASA: Tensions high between Griffin, transition teamHe has always voted against anything NASAHis original plans were to cancel every mayor project at NASA.Then he changed his stand the same day he visited Florida to give a speech near Kennedy Space Center. Then and only then he was pro-NASA.His...

Tags: O'Keefe, NASA, Griffin, Transitioning, transition team, Space-X

Discussion threads 2008-12-12

News to know: Black market zero days; Microsoft security; BlackBerry Bold; SAP

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Dancho Danchev: Black market for zero day vulnerabilities still thriving Spammers targeting Bebo, generate thousands of bogus accounts Larry Dignan: Microsoft: Third party apps...

Tags: Security, Facebook, Larry Dignan, Information Technology, Dana Blankenhorn, SAP AG, RIM BlackBerry, Microsoft Corp., BlackBerry Bold, Microsoft Windows, Smart Phones, Cloud Computing, Linux, Operating Systems, Handhelds, Software, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware

Blog posts 2008-11-03

FaceBook Virgin Airlines Fiasco

FaceBook Virgin Airlines FiascoSo wrongThis is just so , so , so, so-o-o-o-o-o-o wrong on so many different levelsThe employees should be approached privately by the company via the internet Facebook siteNOT reproached PUBLICLYI will think twice from now on about supporting ANY of Mr Bransons "endeavours"He has...

Tags: Social networking, INTERNET, Facebook, FaceBook Virgin Airlines Fiasco, FaceBook Virgin Airlines

Discussion threads 2008-11-02

FaceBook Virgin Airlines Fiasco

There was a fairly major example of how external social networks can spin out of control last week: Virgin Atlantic which despite its name is a major international airline that flies all over the world have a FaceBook presence, with 6,944 members as I write this. ...

Tags: Facebook, Virgin Atlantic, Social Networking, Corporate Governance, Marketing Research, Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2008-11-02

The Road to Success When Simulations Fail: A Thoughtful Look at Finding the Good in Simulation Failure

Planning for failure goes against probably every business-related brain cell one has, right? But think about the most successful business people and corporations in the world. Soichiro Honda, founder of Honda Corporation, built his worldwide automobile company on the premise that "Success can only be achieved through repeated failure and...

Tags: Failure, Advertising & Promotion, Cellular Phones, Marketing, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

White papers 2008-10-07

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

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

In-flight Internet cleared for take-off

I've been skeptical of plans for in-flight broadband access. Let's face it, the airlines don't have a great track record here. No one used those sad phones in the seatbacks. And Boeing's Connexion service--once offered by a few international carriers--is gone. But this time it may finally happen. ...

Tags: Internet Access, American Airlines, Wall Street Journal, Flight, JetBlue Airways Corp., Boeing Co., Equipment, Satellite, Virgin America, Aircell, U.S. In-flight Broadband, Satellite TV, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Networking, John Morris

Blog posts 2008-03-13

Please no "yapping away" on Skype in the air

The Associated Press takes a look at the prospects for airline passengers to use Skype once in-flight Internet access becomes less of a novelty and more of an expectation. That transition, incidentally, is expected to significantly progress in this next year. AP reporter Anick...

Tags: Associated Press, Skype Technologies S.A., Internet, Business Structures, Finance, Russell Shaw

Blog posts 2007-12-24

JetBlue launches in-flight Wi-Fi

A couple of weeks ago, I flew a 17-hour flight from New York to Bangkok. I had books, movies, music, and three horrific vegetarian meals. I also had a laptop, but no way to connect to the Net. Getting online onboard has been promised for yearsâ€"remember...

Tags: JetBlue Airways Corp., Service, E-mail, Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Online Communications, Rik Fairlie

Blog posts 2007-12-10

Up in the air, is it a bird? A plane? A carbon emitter?

One of the most impolite questions you could ever ask at any green tech conference has nothing to do with men's room stalls or anything else sexual in nature. It's "How did you get to this meeting?" Most often the honest answer would involve an airplane trip....

Tags: Airline, Flight, Green Technology, Boeing Co., Government, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2007-10-10

Get ready for the 'Twitterization' of mainstream media

Back in 1991, when I first started as a tech journalist for PC Week now eWeek, there was no Web. There was print, TV, and radio. PC Week was a print book and, to the extent that any of the parent company Ziff Davis' publications were online, it...

Tags: Blog, Blogging, CBS Interactive Inc., David Berlind, Information, Investor, Media, Media Company, Microsoft Windows, PC Week, Twitter, Web, Windows Sources, Ziff-Davis Inc.

Blog posts 2007-08-16