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- Photos: Checking your digits, irises at the airport
- A trial at London's Heathrow Airport will use biometric fingerprint and iris scans to screen air passengers.
- Tags: biometric fingerprint, iris, London, photograph
- Image galleries 2006-12-06
- Internet kiosk at airport vulnerable to hacking
- Internet access terminals at the Heathrow airport were found to be vulnerable to hack attacks. An excerpt from Register: An Italian hacker stumbled on flaws that create a possible means for miscreants to load key logging software or other malware on a PC that allowed members...
- Tags: Terminal, PC, Keylogging, Hacking, Internet, Security, Desktops, Viruses And Worms, Hardware, Arun Radhakrishnan
- Blog posts 2008-01-26
- Vpax Virtual Passenger Screensaver (exe)
- Fasten your seatbelt, sit back, relax, and become a virtual passenger onboard a Boeing 747-400 during its final descent into London Heathrow airport. Real video footage, over 8 minutes long, steady uninterrupted footage, perfect for any aviation enthusiast.This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.
- Tags: Footage, Screensaver, Video, Passenger, VPAX Software, Corporate Communications, Marketing
- Software downloads 2008-08-26
- Key Metrics Help British Airways Save Nearly £38 Million With Transformational Online Programs
- British Airways is on record as one of the world's most profitable airlines. British Airways wanted to reduce business in the wake of airline industry crisis following Sept. 11, 2001 and Plan transition to "Streamlined back-office processes" and "Reduce complexity" at new Heathrow Terminal 5, opening 2008. The challenge was...
- Tags: British Airways Plc., Operational Accounting, Roi/Tco, Finance, Managerial Accounting
- Case studies 2006-10-01
- Texas Instruments Case Study: Airline Baggage Identification
- For the airline industry, getting passengers to their destinations on time and with their accompanying luggage is a feat that requires identifying and tracking millions of items daily. With Tag-it, smart labels the airlines now have highly reliable, economical baggage identification and tracking solution for positive passenger-to-baggage verification and reconciliation....
- Tags: Texas Instruments Inc., Strategy, Management
- Case studies
- 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
- Case studies
- CorasWorks Case Study: BAA Indianapolis LLC
- BAA Indianapolis LLC BAAI is a subsidiary of BAA plc, the private company which owns and operates seven airports in the United Kingdom including London's Heathrow, Gatwick and Stansted airports. BAAI's Information Architect began to look for a way to improve their SharePoint implementation. After determining that it would not...
- Tags: Microsoft SharePoint, Airport, Intranet, BAAI, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software
- Case studies
- Achieving Speedy Compliance With Aviation Industry Regulations
- Aero Technics Design Ltd, based near London Heathrow, UK, offers a specialist design and certification service for interior modifications to commercial, VIP and corporate aircraft, including interior refurbishments, reconfigurations and equipment redesigns. The company's challenge was to perform internal reconfigurations and modifications to commercial, VIP and corporate aircraft, to comply...
- Tags: Reconfiguration, Compliance, Aircraft, Regulation, Aerospace & Defense, Manufacturing
- Case studies 2006-10-01
- Corporate tightwads are troubling travellers
- If you're facing business trips, a cost-cutting travel trend is making that burden even greater. This was recognized two years ago, and that tendency of businesses to demand cheaper travel is accelerating, as discussed in this article from The Wall Street Journal. Stateside hotel rates have risen...
- Tags: Cellular Phones, Telecom & Utilities, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, John Bartley K7AAY
- Blog posts 2007-07-04
- Displaying weather on your Web site with PHP
- Always wanted to have your site colors reflect the weatheroutside? Or maybe thinking about adding weather information to your local newsportal? We're going to teach you all about retrieving and using meteorologicaldata to show users on the other side of the planet whether it's sunny or cloudyoutside your window.In order...
- Tags: Web site development, Scripting languages, Web site, Guest Contributor, Web, METAR, PHP
- Technical articles 2004-08-10
- Is there a right way to downsize?
- Heart in the right placeAnyone who has "survived" a layoff understands that it is hard on the people left behind as well. They are often asked to work harder, with no increase in pay. The stress doesn't go away.So I can see what HR was trying to do in that...
- Tags: Workforce management, Sysadminsdoitafterhours
- Discussion threads 2007-11-06
- Paisley Hobbits
- Paisley Hobbitsblog rootGetting Geeks to go OrganicThe Organic Trade Association appear to have way to much time on their hands (or possibly they're just less lethargic than the rest of us due to their lack of pestcide consumption) - if you're on a flash-enabled machine with sound take a pop...
- Tags: Web site development, Web technology, cenedra, external Website, Web site, Paisley Hobbits
- Discussion threads 2005-05-27
- God, I love you Brits
- God, I love you BritsFrom the BBC News website - [i]Last Updated: Thursday, 10 August 2006, 11:37 GMT 12:37 UK 'Airlines terror plot' disrupted A plot to blow up planes in flight from the UK to the US and commit "mass murder on an unimaginable scale" has been disrupted, Scotland...
- Tags: attack, british, British Broadcasting Corp., good beer, good people, jck, off-topic, plot, security, terrorism, UK AIRPORTS
- Discussion threads 2006-08-10
- Consultancies' IPO delays cause inevitable alternatives
- Will the smaller e-consultancies ever go public? Columnist Tom Rodenhauser makes some dire predictions.Zefer’s decision to postpone its IPO comes as no surprise. The number of e-firms now waiting for more favorable market conditions resembles so many airplanes lined up on a Heathrow tarmac. Unfortunately, the stock market’s control tower...
- Tags: Outsourcing, Investment, Tom Rodenhauser, payoff, Surgency, consulting, patient, Zefer, IPO
- Technical articles 2000-09-22
- News to know for Tuesday, April 8, 2008
- "News to know" is a joint venture between TechRepublic and ZDNet. The original post publishes every morning on business days in Between the Lines. Notable headlines: Toni Bowers: March marks third consecutive month of job losses Bill Detwiler: Virtual worlds invade the average business meeting...
- Tags: TechCrunch, Jason O'Grady, Microsoft Corp., Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Microsoft Windows, Printers, Fuel Cells, Notebooks, Web Services, Operating Systems, Open Source, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware, Peripherals, Emerging Technologies, Notebooks & Tablets, Jason Hiner
- Blog posts 2008-04-08
- Oracle Tip: Solving directed graph problems with SQL, part 1
- A common advanced computer science problemcan be described under the heading of "directed graphs." A directedgraph is a finite set of nodes connected by a set of vectors oredges. For example, a node can be imagined as a "city" and eachvector as a "flight" between two cities. ...
- Tags: Scott Stephens, SQL, Oracle Corp., airports value, JFK, primary key, Sao Paulo, graph problem
- Technical articles 2004-06-23
- On Airport Security
- On Airport SecurityI've been travelling quite a bit lately, and have thought a lot about it. There are only a few options.1. Screen nobody. (Already deemed a bad idea.)2. Screen everybody. (Obviously very intrusive and inconvenient, oftentimes down-right insulting.)3. Profile those who will be screened. Neil's mum, for example, might...
- Tags: mum, airport security, maxwell edison, off-topic, Let Neil, Neil
- Discussion threads 2006-06-13
- News to know for Monday, April 7, 2008
- "News to know" is a joint venture between TechRepublic and ZDNet. The original post publishes every morning on business days in Between the Lines. Notable headlines: Paul Mah: Security news roundup: Bumper Patch Tuesday from Microsoft tomorrow, Intel to release anti-theft tech for laptops...
- Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Mobile Linux, Linux, Microsoft Windows, Media Center PCs, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Open Source, UNIX, Software, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Mary Weilage
- Blog posts 2008-04-07
- Microsoft plans to make security changes to Windows Messenger
- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates has announced that the company will improve security by turning on the firewall in Windows XP by default and making changes to or even disabling Windows Messenger.The updated security changes will begin with the release of Windows XP Service Pack 2, which will reportedly disable Windows...
- Tags: America Online Inc., bulletin, John McCormick, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Messenger, security
- Technical articles 2003-11-10
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