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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

Virgin UK CIO: Gareth Lewis - Transcript

The Virgin story began in 1968 with Richard Branson's student magazine and then a mail order record company before the first Virgin record store opened up on London's Oxford Street in 1971. Since then the company has become one of the few genuine global super-brands with over 200 businesses, including...

Tags: Mobile, Information Technology, Virgin Atlantic, Business, GL, Outsourcing, Strategy, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Management, Administrator

Blog posts 2006-12-12

Virgin Atlantic Desktop Alerts 1 (Windows)

Download Virgin Atlantic Alerts if you want to be the first to know the latest news, offers and information about Virgin Atlantic. The brand new Virgin Atlantic Alerts service is quick and simple to download and delivers the latest news and special offers straight to your desktop, ensuring you're amongst...

Tags: Virgin Atlantic, Skinkers, Virgin Atlantic Alerts Service, Spyware, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Desktops, Microsoft Windows, Viruses And Worms, Security, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2005-12-29

V-Tool 0.4 (Mac)

All airline seats on scheduled flights are sold in 'buckets'. Normally you wouldn't get to see the availability in bucket, and hence have no idea how full or empty your flight will be. With the V-Tool you can check any scheduled flight in the world. It doesn't stop there. You...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Virgin Atlantic, V-Flyer.com, V-Tool 0.4, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Desktops, Benefits, Internet, Hardware, Human Resources

Software downloads 2005-03-07

V-Tool 0.4 (Windows)

All airline seats on scheduled flights are sold in 'buckets'. Normally you wouldn't get to see the availability in bucket, and hence have no idea how full or empty your flight will be. With the V-Tool you can check any scheduled flight in the world. It doesn't stop there. You...

Tags: Virgin Atlantic, V-Flyer.com, V-Tool 0.4, Microsoft Windows, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Benefits, Operating Systems, Software, Internet, Human Resources

Software downloads 2005-03-07

Virgin Atlantic Airways Pilots Radio Frequency Identification With Oracle and Tata Consultancy Services

Since it was founded in 1984, Virgin Atlantic Airways, as a company, is always looking for ways to take advantage of technological advancement. The aviation industry is gradually moving toward RFID standards, and the company wanted to ensure that when these are agreed, Virgin Atlantic will be well placed to...

Tags: Tata Consultancy Services Ltd., Oracle Corp., Virgin Atlantic, Radio, Aviation Industry, RFID, Wireless, Security, Biometrics

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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

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

DreamForce clouds deluge San Francisco

Rock legend Neil Young surprised and delighted the audience at SalesForce's DreamForce conference today by having his electric and natural gas powered 1959 Lincoln Continental Mk IV convertible driven onto the stage silent and beautiful as the clouds above San Francisco unleashed intermittent torrential rain. ...

Tags: Facebook, Sales Force, Neil Young, Sales Force Management, Sales, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2008-11-03

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

Microsoft's $300 million makeover

Remember that $300 million consumer ad campaign that Microsoft awarded earlier this year? New specifics are emerging on how the ad agency that won the deal -- Crispin Porter + Bogusky -- is starting its task of rebranding Microsoft as a cool company. Crispin Porter counts Burger...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Specifics, Advertising & Promotion, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Strategy, Marketing, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Management, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-05-20

Why I didn't like "Microhoo"

Yesterday was not a good day to be Jerry Yang. A year after returning to the helm of the company he co-founded, Yang found himself faced with an unsolicited bid from Microsoft, one that offered to pay a 50% premimum over the price of Yahoo stock. Though not ruling the...

Tags: Jerry Yang, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Developer Orientation, Team Management, Mergers & Acquisitions, DVR, Management, Investment, Finance, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, John Carroll

Blog posts 2008-05-06

Flight profile (Virgin Galactic models SpaceShipTwo)

Flight profile Virgin Galactic models SpaceShipTwoSpaceship TwoI think this is great. I am a big fan of Burt Rutan and all of his projects. I cannot wait until SpaceShip Two is complete. I am the academic coordinator for the Aircraft Manufacturing Technology program at a technical school...

Tags: SpaceShipTwo, Virgin Galactic

Discussion threads 2008-01-23

Virgin Galactic unveils SpaceShipTwo; Plans open architecture spaceship

Virgin Galactic unveils SpaceShipTwo; Plans open architecture spaceshipBeautifulThey are much better looking than the first ones. I hope that they accelerate space exploration and lunar landings. Unfortunately, the current goal is mostly space tourism, which is impractical. Maybe they'll raise enough money from it to fund the bigger picture, though.RE:...

Tags: space elevator, Virgin Galactic, architecture spaceship, SpaceShipTwo

Discussion threads 2008-01-23

News to know: Spam standards; Oracle Fusion re-org; YouTube filters

Notable headlines: David Berlind: Does payback on email alone make Google Apps' $50/yr. worth it? (Docs, etc? That's icing). Note to all anti-spam vendors: Why your solutions stink and standards are needed instead. Dennis Howlett: Oracle re-org confirmed, Fusion leader ousted. ...

Tags: Airbus S.A.S., AJAX, Corporate Communications, Development Tools, Internet, Java Development Tools, Larry Dignan, Marketing, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Oracle Corp., Software, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Standards, Web 2.0, Web Development, Wireless, Wireless LANs, YouTube Inc.

Blog posts 2007-10-16

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

Sir Richard Branson: VoIP "might be possible" on Virgin flights

On the inaugural flight of Virgin America airlines, Engadget's Paul Miller sat down with Virgin Group chair Sir Richard Branson.After some pleasantries and various visioneering yada yada, Paul asked Sir Richard about the possibility of VoIP on Virgin Atlantic and Virgin America:"So you think technologies like VoIP that would...

Tags: VoIP, Russell Shaw

Blog posts 2007-08-12

Virgin America's CIO gets an IT greenfield

Few CIOs get to build a technology infrastructure from scratch. In that regard, Virgin America CIO Bill Maguire is a lucky man. Virgin America is expecting to go "wheels up" at the end of June pending Department of Transportation approval. The airline is looking...

Tags: Software Infrastructure, Outsourcing, Open Source, Offshore outsourcing, Linux, IT Management, Innovation, General, Gartner Symposium

Blog posts 2007-04-24

SaaS Summit reactions to Cisco buying WebEx

Attendees at todays SaaS Summit in Monterey — where I arrived last night after a mammoth 19-hour journey via London underground, Virgin Atlantic and Hertz rental car — were feeling bullish but bemused at the news that Cisco has bought WebEx for $3.2 billion. Knowing that WebEx sold for close...

Tags: software-as-a-service, WebEx Communications Inc., Cisco Systems Inc.

Blog posts 2007-03-15

FreeNavCharts DVD 2.0 (Mac)

Own the complete set of NOAA RNCs Raster Navigation Charts for the US Coastal Regions and Major Inland Waterways, including Hawii, Guam, the Aleutians, Alaska, US Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, and more. Save litterally hundreds of hours of downloading, organizing and indexing this valuable chart collection. Best of all, own...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Chart, Thin Clients, Hardware

Software downloads 2006-01-19