Travel & Travel Technology News.For more travel news, data and analysis, please go to: http://www.airguideonline.com/order_formsubs.htm Jul 3, 2006 Boeing Boeing has confirmed that it will be taking a series of near-term actions as the company accelerates the evaluation of options for the future of its Connexion by Boeing Connexion by Boeing (CBB) was an in-flight online connectivity service from Boeing. This service allowed travellers to access a high-speed internet connection while on board a plane in flight through a wired Ethernet or a wireless 802.11 Wi-Fi connection. high-speed broadband communications business. Connexion is not part of its core business and a disposal to a more specialized concern has not been ruled out. There is clearly a demand for in-flight on-line Internet and its spin offs but the question is "how do you pay for it?" Advertising revenue, the means whereby normal ground based IT systems sustain themselves, does work in the airborne mode. It needs lots of views which will never happen with the average aircraft size around 150 people. Boeing says it is carrying out an evaluation with its clients and partners which may result in a sale, partnering arrangement or termination of service. http://www.boeing.com Jun 30, 2006 Mercator, Middle East Airlines Mercator completed a major IT project for Middle East Airlines with the successful installation of its RAPID passenger revenue accounting solution. Jun 30, 2006 SITA SITA launched what it called the air transport industry's first Voice Exchange, offering much cheaper Voice over Internet Protocol See Internet and TCP/IP. (networking) Internet Protocol - (IP) The network layer for the TCP/IP protocol suite widely used on Ethernet networks, defined in STD 5, RFC 791. IP is a connectionless, best-effort packet switching protocol. (VoIP) phone services as a "secure, efficient and flexible alternative to the legacy Public Switched Telephone Network technology." SITA SC Senior VP-Business Development Relationship Management and New Ventures Rene Azoulai said, "SITA is committed to providing the air transport community with innovative and effective ways of using technology to drive down costs." Jun 26, 2006 SITA SITA said Voice Exchange leverages "the SITA-managed .aero top level domain--in particular the latest Domain Name System technologies such as tElephone NUmber Mapping ENUM redirects here. For enumeration types in programming languages, see enumerated type. Telephone Number Mapping (ENUM or Enum, from TElephone NUmber M . ATI (ATI Technologies Inc., Markham Ontario, http://ati.amd.com) A leading manufacturer of graphics chips and display adapters. Founded in 1985 by K. Y. Ho, Benny Lau and Lee Lau, ATI chips and boards are widely used by OEMs. for addressing instead of traditional phone numbers." Participating ATI customers will be able to call each other through Voice Exchange using "click-to-call" softphones, IP phones or legacy PBX (Private Branch eXchange) An inhouse telephone switching system that interconnects telephone extensions to each other as well as to the outside telephone network (PSTN). telephones. "They will be able to dial legacy numbers, but calls will stay within the IP network without touching the legacy PSTNs," the company said. Jun 26, 2006 Southwest Airlines This article is about the American airline. For the former Japanese airline, see Japan Transocean Air. For the British airline, see Air Southwest. Southwest Airlines Co. Savvion announced that Southwest Airlines deployed its Savvion BusinessManager 6.5 to provide business process management tools for employee records management and project financial controls. Jun 30, 2006 Unisys Corp Unisys Corp. announced that its subsidiary in Germany signed a contract with Hahn Air Hahn Air is an airline based in Dreieich, near Frankfurt, Germany. It operates domestic and international scheduled services to and from many countries, in either codeshare or wet lease scenarios. Hahn Air also operates executive charter services. Systems, the IT subsidiary of Hahn Air, for implementation of Unisys Airline Core Systems Solutions. Hahn will offer the AirCore functions as an ASP. The company is an IATA IATA International Air Transport Association, which sets the rules for air transport, including those concerning air transport of animals. member and handles worldwide sales and distribution of flight tickets for non-BSP participating carriers. Jun 30, 2006 Virgin Atlantic Airways airways Anatomy The 'pipes'–trachea, bronchi, bronchioles–through which air passes to and from the alveoli. See Small airways. Virgin Atlantic Airways said its entire fleet will be equipped by 2009 with Tempus, a telemedicine device that uses satellite technology to transmit information regarding ill or injured passengers to medical professionals at the MedAire Center in Phoenix so diagnosis can be made and expert advice given to flight crews. Jun 29, 2006 |
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