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Airlines won't mandate online check-in
News Not all airlines plan to follow move by RyanAir to make Internet check-in compulsory, preferring instead to offer Web as alternative channel for passengers.
Tags: Web sites, Web services, Mobile, Passenger, Spokesperson, Singapore, Portal, e-mail, handheld, British Airways Plc.
Jetstar CIO: Downtime risk saves money
News Airline's "doing it for a dollar less" mentality means accepting risk network might not always be up in exchange for cheaper services, says CIO Stephen Tame.
Tags: Business Strategies & Functions, Airport, Australia, Broadband, Environment, Server, CIO, Hardware, network, desktop
Spam's carbon footprint: 1 e-mail like driving 3 feet
News Report finds energy used annually to delete spam and rescue legitimate e-mail is equal to greenhouse gas emissions from 3.1 million cars.
Tags: Spam filtering, Spam and phishing, Spam, greenhouse gas emission, Carbon Footprint, e-mail spam, greenhouse gas, e-mail, spam filtering, spam message
Airports spending US$3B to be tech high fliers
News Airport operators are shelling out on technology this year in an effort to attract more passengers, new investment report predicts.
Tags: Investments, Passenger, Airport Operator, Supplier, Survey, London, Silicon.com, customer service, senior vice president, revenue
Verizon Wireless VZ Navigator
Product Reviews Verizon Wireless VZ Navigator
Tags: Verizon Communications Inc., Motorola Inc., Location, Tool, GPS, Messaging, movie, local search, Verizon Wireless
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, Telecommunications, mobile communication, aircraft, CIO, British Airways Plc., GPRS
Siemens onboard for high-speed trains in China
News Japan and European countries like France have had them for decades. But now the race to build high-speed trains seems to have taken off in two of the leading world economies.
Tags: Hardware, Train, Siemens AG, Shanghai, Japan, Chinese Ministry Of Railway, China, Adobe PDF, U.S., Olympic Games
Cruise Line Tycoon: Island Hopping (PC)
Product Reviews Cruise Line Tycoon: Island Hopping (PC)
McKinsey: Energy efficiency could save US$700B
News Rather than invent new sources of energy, reducing waste in appliances, homes and business could yield savings of US$1.2 trillion on a US$520 billion investment over 10 years, consulting firm says.
Tags: Green IT, Infrastructure/architecture management, Investments, Combined Heat and Power, greenhouse gas emission, McKinsey & Co., greenhouse gas, energy efficiency, Canada, barrier
Privacy activist asks US regulators to halt Google apps
News Electronic Privacy Information Center wants Federal Trade Commission to pull the plug on Google cloud-computing services until government-mandated "safeguards are verifiably established."
Tags: Privacy, Google Inc., Cloud Computing, FTC, Privacy Activist, Regulator, Privacy Advocacy Group, Marc Rotenberg, EPIC, Google Apps
Travel firms use IT to beat recession blues
News Amid downturn, India's travel industry adopts IT tools to lower costs, improve operational efficiencies and diversify product offerings to increase revenues.
Tags: Traveller, Web sites, Mobile applications, Hotel, Mobile, India, Cell Phone, Tool, channel management, phone
Earth Day a good time to rethink power use
News Devices in your home as well as your interactions with Internet servers can waste electricity.
Tags: Green IT, Energy, Electronics, Microsoft Windows Vista, Spam, Cell Phone, software, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows, carbon dioxide
Ten examples of SOA at work, circa 2008
Techguide In the past year, many companies have finally moved on beyond the experimentation and pilot stages when it comes to SOA. Joe McKendrick presents stellar examples of where and how SOA made a difference for some companies in 2008.
Tags: Web services, Standards, Mainframe, ITIL, SOA, CERN, Enterprise Service Bus, Lufthansa, United Airlines, AbeBooks.com
US hits legal turbulence over EU passenger data
News The Electronic Frontier Foundation is taking the Department of Homeland Security to court for not disclosing how it uses and shares European Union airline passenger information.
Tags: Data security, Privacy, Government
Manchester Airport uses BI to change baggage rule
News Manchester Airport is using BI software to help manage passenger flows through security after once again allowing more than one item of hand baggage per passenger on flights.
Tags: Knowledge management, Data mining & analysis, Databases
