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Tiger CEO: Difficult to differentiate with IT
Insight newsmaker Tiger Aviation's president Tony Davis agrees aviation industry's IT infrastructure is rigid, but maintains the budget carrier is open to new ideas.
Tags: Cost control, Business plans, Airline, Airbus S.A.S., CEO, Information Technology, Asia, Asia-Pacific, Singapore, Australia
Tighter budgets but airlines still focus on IT
News Some airlines focus on tech to improve passengers' travel experience, while IT-based onboard merchandising offers carriers another revenue source.
Tags: Music devices, Business development/management, Airline, TV, Semiconductor Industry Association, aircraft, entertainment, phone, monitoring, Web
Are supercomputers just better liars?
Insight Supercomputers may be far more powerful than ordinary machines, but that does not make their predictions infallible, says expert.
Tags: Supercomputing, R&D, Models, computer, Consulting, Jones, supercomputer, high-performance computing, modeling, food
Computer glitch caused Qantas drop
News The sudden drop in altitude of the aircraft over Western Australia last year was due to a computer error.
Tags: Operating systems, computer, aircraft, ADIRU, Airbus, Qantas Airways Ltd., Hardware, software, software development, U.S.
Green Hills spins off Integrity operating system
News Spinoff company aims to bring military-grade virtualization to corporations.
Tags: Security, Virtualization, Operating systems, operating system, Computer, Green Hills Software Inc., Airbus, commercial software, Boeing Co., desktop operating system
Has in-flight entertainment got wings in the iPod era?
News Airlines should scrap in-flight entertainment systems because they cannot compete with the thousands of songs and scores of movies that can be stored on modern media players, according to an aviation expert.
Tags: MP3 players, Mobile platforms/communications, Smart phones, Digital media, Airline, Media Player, Storage, wireless Web, entertainment, Digital media
British Airways won't retrofit for mobile communications
News Airline is planning to launch a mobile e-mail, Web browsing and texting service on two new Airbus A318 planes this fall. But retrofitting old planes is too costly, CEO says.
Tags: Mobile platforms/communications, Web services, Budgeting/cost control, Mobile, mobile communication, Telecommunications, aircraft, CIO, British Airways Plc., GPRS
Airbus spends millions on IBM-OATSystems RFID
News Airbus is looking to an RFID future, after signing a multimillion dollar deal with IBM and OATSystems.
Tags: RFID
U.K. in-flight mobile gets air-safety green light
News Air France will be the first airline to install the airborne GSM equipment on its short-haul aircraft and plans to start offering the service from July.
Tags: Mobile/Wireless, Network infrastructure
Boeing may join Microsoft in EU antitrust fight
News Aircraft giant may argue against European antitrust regulators' order to make Microsoft give secrets to rivals.
Airbus drops out of Microsoft appeal
News Aircraft builder withdraws its request to intervene in Microsoft's antitrust appeal; Boeing also forgoes intervention.
Tags: Business applications, Antitrust
China to get in-flight mobile by 2009
News Shenzhen Airlines plans to install new communications technology that will enable its passengers to make voice calls and send text messages on their mobile phones.
Tags: Mobile, Mobile/Wireless, Mobile applications, Wireless e-mail devices
Email for all on Virgin Atlantic
News The European commercial airline is working with Tenzing Communications to integrate its Internet systems into Virgin Atlantic's in-flight entertainment system.
Mobile office in the sky: On board the Airbus A380
Blogs I have just experienced the future of Business Class on board the newest, largest passenger jet: Singapore Airlines Airb...
Emirates rings up first in-flight mobile call
News Emirates airline has launched the world's first commercial in-flight mobile telephone service and will spend US$27 million to kit out its entire fleet with the technology.
Tags: Cellular phones
