Porn nightmare at 37,000 feet?
Bloomberg reported last week that American Airlines flight attendants are urging their employer to block passengers from using inflight Internet access to view pornography and other inappropriate Web...
View ArticleAlaska Airlines flies ahead with in-flight Wi-Fi
U.S. airlines are now piling on to the in-flight Wi-Fi bandwagon, with Alaska Airlines joining other airlines in expanding the service to more aircraft.
View ArticleWhat You'll Pay For In-Flight Wi-Fi
Airlines have been charging fees for seats on the emergency aisle, priority boarding, and anything resembling baggage, so it's no surprise that cheap or free Wi-Fi access isn't a typical frill. But...
View ArticleCloud computing is not just a name for outsourcing
I'm guessing many of you are asking if cloud computing isn't just a new name for ASPs, software as a service, outsourcing or, for us older guys, timesharing. While the cloud certainly shares principles...
View ArticleSenate report: Phone bill cramming costs billions
Third-party charges on U.S. consumer and business telephone bills, most of them unauthorized by the customer, amount to US $2 billion a year, according to a new report from a U.S. Senate committee.
View ArticleMcAfee expelled from Guatemala, headed back to U.S.
The antivirus pioneer John McAfee is headed back to the United States after authorities in Guatemala expelled him earlier today for illegally entering the country in an attempt to escape authorities in...
View ArticleFrom build to buy: American Airlines changes modernization course midflight
American Airlines was well into a simultaneous revamp of its Passenger Services System (PSS) and Flight Operating System (FOS), its two most mission-critical families of applications, when the airline...
View ArticleAmerican Airlines grounds all flights on computer glitch
American Airlines grounded all its flights across the U.S. on Tuesday after an unidentified computer problem hit its reservation system.
View ArticleAmerican Airlines back online after computer glitch
American Airlines restored access to its reservation system on Tuesday afternoon after a four-hour long outage that grounded its flights across the U.S.
View ArticleSenator questions airlines' data privacy practices
A senior U.S. senator is asking airlines about their data privacy practices, saying he's concerned about what information the companies are collecting and sharing with third parties.
View ArticleHalf-baked mergers
It can take years after a merger has been declared "complete" for the IT processes and systems to be truly merged. Over the years, we've all seen stories in the business press about this sort of thing,...
View ArticlePremier 100 IT Leader: Ryan Boone
Ryan Boone has a simple philosophy for blending IT with the business at discount retailer Dollar General: "Do the work."
View ArticleGlitch in iPad app causes travel headaches for American Airlines passengers
Some American Airlines passengers faced lengthy flight delays on Tuesday after a fault in the iPad navigation app used by the carriers' pilots and co-pilots caused the tablets to crash.
View ArticleAttack on Sabre reportedly conducted by Anthem, OPA hackers
Travel industry software maker Sabre is the latest company said to have been hit by the same hackers who recently attacked U.S. health insurer Anthem and the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM),...
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