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City Airport Deploys Biometric Security
News London City Airport is to become the first airport in Europe to deploy terminal-wide biometric security measures for all employees. The move, which is intended to tighten airport security and improve flight safety in the wake of the 11 September...
[May 7, 2003, 16:13]
Wireless Web To Soar At US Airports
News Business travelers no longer have to sequester themselves in the executive airport lounge to get Internet access. Global Digital Media.com is bringing the Internet to business travellers for use anywhere in the airport.
[August 2, 2000, 9:45]
Airport Security Technology Under Scrutiny
News Airport curbside luggage check-in will no longer be allowed. The hijackers who crashed jets into the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in Washington on Tuesday morning were reportedly armed with knives and would have had to pass...
[September 13, 2001, 14:40]
FBI Shuts Down Fake Boarding Pass Site
News Soghoian, a computer security student at Indiana University Bloomington, built the website to underscore an airport security weakness, he wrote. They could be used to get past airport security, but not to get on an airplane, because the airline...
[October 31, 2006, 10:47]
Free As The Air
Leader The spat between Continental Airlines and Boston Logan International Airport is simple: Continental provides free Wi-Fi access in its frequent-flier lounge, while the airport charges all comers $8 a day for similar privileges.
[August 4, 2005, 13:00]
RFID Luggage Tags Mooted
News To date, however, there are very few deployments of luggage-tracking RFID tags by airports, with the most high-profile trial taking place at Hong Kong International Airport. Both BAA and BA also argued that in order to match passengers up with lost...
[February 24, 2005, 11:00]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Please arrive at the airport three months before your plane is due to depart. Drop your bags off when you get to the airport -- 60 minutes before the flight leaves is fine --- and that's that. That by itself is a necessary evil: what makes the...
[September 3, 2004, 18:10]
Attack On America: The Security Debate
News Friday 14th September Airport and plane security faces a major overhaul following this week's terrorism Airport security technology under scrutiny Thursday 13th September High-tech systems like face recognition or fingerprint scanning may become...
[September 18, 2001, 13:09]
Google Turns Heathrow Into Testing Lab
News Airport. Samsung laptops in the public lounge of Terminal One at London's main airport. Although the search specialist claims the project is primarily about helping travellers use their time more productively at the airport, it admitted that Google...
[November 24, 2005, 13:00]
BT Hoovers Up Broadband Punters With 'free' Flights
News For a start, the flights aren't completely free, as customers will have to pay airport tax and any travel insurance in order to get to Amsterdam, Barcelona, Brussels, Nice, Paris, Prague, Atlanta, Boston, New York, Philadelphia or Washington.
[May 11, 2004, 11:50]
Ellison Donates Oracle 9i For US Security
News Ellison has suggested airport security would be improved by requiring travellers to provide their names and social security numbers to airport security personnel. Oracle chief executive Larry Ellison said Tuesday that he has donated Oracle software...
[December 5, 2001, 14:15]
Civil Rights Group Decries Face-recognition Tools
News As a result, airports including Boston's Logan International Airport and Oakland International Airport, in California, adopted the surveillance technology as a security precaution. Face-recognition software has become more widespread following the...
[January 4, 2002, 9:23]
News Roundup: Attack On America
News Thursday 13th September High-tech systems like face recognition or fingerprint scanning may become part of the airport security of the future Airport security technology under scrutiny Monday 17th September The National Hi-Tech Crime Unit has asked...
[September 12, 2001, 13:10]
Apple Patches Trio Of Wi-Fi Hijack Flaws
News The company released security updates to repair the problems, which together affect the AirPort wireless driver in Mac OS X 10 Panther version 10.3.9 and Mac OS X Tiger 10.4.7, according to Apple's security alert.
[September 22, 2006, 8:50]
Virtualisation Takes Airline To New Heights
News What that means is that I could lose systems at an airport for a day, and I can go manual at that airport — I can survive," said Tame. We've been spending a lot of time and effort looking at how we are going to be deploying and managing our systems...
[September 26, 2006, 11:45]
IPhone Insecurity review
Reviews The team found that malformed network traffic could allow the notebook to be compromised, and they provided a video of the attack.The researchers did use a third-party wireless card for their video demonstration, but said repeatedly that the Apple...
[June 27, 2007, 16:14]
US Officials Order E-ticketing Restrictions
News Like Southwest, Ek said, Priceline is advising e-ticket customers to bring a printout of their travel receipt with them to the airport. In addition, an e-ticketed traveller could avoid long airport lines by checking in at the gate, as long as he or...
[September 14, 2001, 9:43]
Computer Glitch Causes Gridlock At LA Airport
News A US Customs computer systems malfunction stranded more than 20,000 international passengers for several hours at Los Angeles International Airport on Saturday. Airport officials said the stranded planes were connected to ground power and...
[August 13, 2007, 13:26]
Airport Status
Downloads A preferences option allows filtering for a specific airport. Displays FAA-reported status (such as delays, shutdowns, and weather incidents) for major airports in the US.
[March 26, 2007, 10:59]
WXSYS On Demand -- Aviation
Downloads WXSYS On Demand - Aviation - provides METAR, TAF, RADAR, Satellite, IFR Procedures, Airport Info, FBO & Fuel, Sunrise/Sunset, and SIGMET/AIRMET information for most US airports and selected airports worldwide.
[December 21, 2006, 22:01]
