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U. S. airlines are adding Wi-Fi to more of their planes, but it could still be years before the biggest carriers have their fleets fully equipped with the wireless technology and passengers can expect to have access to e-mail and the Internet when they board any flight. Only one major airline, AirTran Airways, has equipped its entire fleet with Wi-Fi using a service called Gogo, which relies on ground-to-air gear over the 3 MHz spectrum from Aircell. AirTran has a fleet of 136 aircraft, and Aircell said Gogo is available on more than 500 aircraft on six U. S. airlines, including all 28 planes flown by Virgin America. But AirTrans fleet is smaller than those of the biggest carriers, such as American Airlines, Delta Air Lines and United Air Lines. This week, American said it had nearly 115 planes equipped with Gogo. It also expects to have 300 more planes in its 500-plane fleet equipped with Gogo within two years. In late July, Delta said it had 219 aircraft with Gogo and expected 330 of its planes to be have the technology installed this year. United has said it will only have Wi-Fi on 13 long-distance flights in the second half of 2009. US Airways has yet to roll out Gogo on its planes, saying it plans to do so early next year. Some airlines, including Southwest Airlines and Alaska Airlines, are relying on Wi-Fi technology that connects planes to satellites from a vendor known as Row 44 Inc. Westlake Village, Calif. -based Row 44 is also working with two other unnamed airlines, the companys president, Gregg Fialcowitz, said in an interview. (Row 44 got its unusual name from the back row of a crowded plane where one of the founders sat when he was a young traveler taking a backpacking trek. )Both Southwest, which has more than 500 planes, and Alaska Airlines will move forward quickly to roll out service to their entire fleets, Fialcowitz predicted, noting that the two airlines recently concluded successful tests on several planes. Row 44 received authorization from the Federal Communications Commission for the Wi-Fi service in early August. The airlines want to roll out Wi-Fi to their entire fleets as soon as possible because they dont want their passengers to fly today with Wi-Fi and then have the experience tomorrow of not having it and being disappointed, he said. The airlines want it ubiquitous throughout the fleet. And ubiquity will matter tremendously, said Robert McAdoo, a financial analyst at Avondale Partners LLC who conducts research on nearly 20 airlines and has used Wi-Fi on planes. Wi-Fi is absolutely here to stay on U. S. airlines, and its absolutely an advantage to airlines to get their fleets totally equipped, he said. While Delta is going gangbusters with Wi-Fi rollouts, as a spokeswoman at Aircell put it, McAdoo said it could be as long as three years before we see widespread Wi-Fi capability on flights from numerous carriers. Among other things, Wi-Fi on availability will probably affect travelers decisions about what airlines to fly, McAdoo added. The dilemma for travelers today is finding which flights offer Wi-Fi, since Wi-Fi is available on relatively few of the thousands of planes flying across the U. S. One thing thats very clear is that theres so little Wi-Fi coverage [across fleets] right now that a passenger cant figure out what flight to take easily, McAdoo said. The revenue benefit of offering Wi-Fi, from the standpoint of the airlines, will ultimately not come from the access fees, which can run from $6 to $13 per user per flight with Gogo. Instead, it will come from selling more airline tickets to customers who choose an airline because it has Wi-Fi on every flight, McAdoo said. McAdoo said it costs about $100,000 to equip a plane with Wi-Fi from Aircell, although Aircell and the airlines would not discuss their costs. Airlines have two choices, he said. They can either pay the $100,000 cost per plane to have Wi-Fi installed and then recoup the cost from access fees, or they can have Aircell pay for the installation and have the vendor recoup the investment from the fees. Either way, the revenues to the airlines are negligible, although the carriers could reap major rewards by selling more tickets, McAdoo argued. A hit with passengersBy all accounts, passengers report positive experiences using Wi-Fi in flight. McAdoo said his own experiences have been good; he said he c ...

Los vivos pueden respirar tranquilos. Wikipedia, la enciclopedia libre online, ya no volverá a enterrarles erróneamente como ocurrió el pasado enero cuando un internauta cambió las páginas de los senadores Edward M. Kennedy y Robert C. Byrd y les dio por muertos cuando sólo estaban enfermos. La decisión está motivada por el peso que tiene Wikipedia en la Red -es una de las 10 páginas más visitadas del mundo, con 60 millones de visitas mensuales tan sólo en Estados Unidos- y quizás también porque, a causa de errores como el mencionado, últimamente ha dejado de ser el primer sitio al que los internautas acuden cuando necesitan documentarse. Lo que comenzó hace ocho años como un experimento para construir una enciclopedia creada en forma de colaboración colectiva, se transformará así en parte en un servicio con dos tipos de colaboradores, los que editan las páginas y el resto. Hubo un tiempo en que la comunidad podía perdonar errores e incorrecciones. Pero hoy hay mucha menos tolerancia al respecto, explicaba el lunes en The New York Times Michael Snow, presidente de la Fundación Wikimedia, desde donde se impulsó la creación de esta web. En realidad, la figura de los editores, que serán todos voluntarios, es similar a la de los fact checkers, las personas que en diarios y revistas estadounidenses se dedican a confirmar que todos los datos y declaraciones que aparec ...

MADRID, 11 Sep. (EUROPA PRESS) - Vodafone España se compromete a ofrecer servicios de ADSL a todos sus clientes en España en las mismas condiciones, independientemente del lugar donde residan, desde 29,9 euros al mes, informó el operador. La compañía, que mantiene los precios vigentes, extenderá sus servicios de ADSL a todo el país convirtiéndose, junto con Telefónica, en el primer operador con una misma oferta de ADSL en todo el territorio nacional. De esta forma, Vodafone replica la oferta del operador dominante y proporciona a sus clientes una solución, que prescindiendo de la cuota de alquiler de línea, integra las ventajas de la banda ancha y móvil. La solución de Vodafone, que incluye un router con wi-fi con conexión tanto a la red fija como a la red móvil HSPA (evolución de la tercera generación 3G ...

MADRID, 24 Sep. (EUROPA PRESS) - Vodafone ha anunciado el lanzamiento de Vodafone 360, una herramienta que permitirá sincronizar los servicios de Internet en el móvil y el ordenador, agrupando en un solo lugar los contactos del cliente, sus redes sociales y sus aplicaciones personales como música, juegos, fotos o videos, según informó la compañía en un comunicado. El servicio sincroniza el móvil y el PC o Mac de manera automática, realizando copias regularmente. Actualiza contactos, e-mails, fotos, conversaciones, cambios de configuración, de forma que, independientemente de que el cliente lo haga desde casa o desde cualquier lugar, todo queda guardado y al día. El director de servicios de Internet de Vodafone Grupo, Pieter Knook, destacó que Vodafone 360 es el primer servicio de este tipo que ofrece a los usuarios los beneficios de una experiencia de Internet móvil integradora. Los nuevos servicios de Vodafone 360 estarán disponibles en dos mo ...

USB 3. 0 en el IDFpor : Juan Ranchal: 19 Sep 2009, 11:32 El Intel Developer Forum que se celebrará la semana próxima será el lugar elegido para realizar demostraciones de los primeros productos electrónicos con soporte Superspeed, el nuevo estándar USB que aumentará la velocidad de transferencia de datos hasta 4,8 gigabits por segundo. Un portátil de Fujitsu será el primer PC que oficialmente se muestre con soporte para esta tecnología, gracias a la inclusión de un chip controlador de NEC Electronic que intercambiará datos con una unidad externa de alamacenamiento SuperSpeed USB de Buffalo Technology. Este mismo chip de NEC también se incluye en un prototipo de videocámara de Point Grey Research con un sensor Sony CMOS IMX036″ capaz de grabar a 60 cuadros por seg ...

Ubiquisys and FON are working on a femtocell that will let mobile users share a broadband connection, they said on Tuesday. FON now lets PC users share their fixed-line broadband connection using a Wi-Fi router equipped with the companys software. The software lets users set up a hotspot for other members of the FON community, while keeping access closed to other people. Users who set up one of these hotspots can use all the other hotspots in the network for free. FON users who dont want to share their broadband connection can pay to get access to FON hotspots that other users have set up. Today, the FON network has more than half a million Wi-Fi hotspots, 1. 5 million registered members and deals with a number of operators, including British Telecom, SFR France and E-Plus Germany, according to a statement. The new product, which will be manufactured by Ubiquisys, is being designed to bring the FON system to HSPA (High-Speed Packet Access) mobile broadband connections. Femtocells are small base stations that can improve indoor wireless coverage and increase capacity. When a user is making calls and surfing the Web with a phone or laptop equipped with wireless broadband, signals are sent via the femtocell to a fixed broadband connection. Femtocells also provide carriers a chance to offload users from the regular mobile network to save money on backhaul capacity. The advantages would be the same with the new product, but potentially on a larger scale, according to Keith Day, ...

Toshiba: disco duro 1,8″ 160 GB por platopor : Juan Ranchal: 11 Sep 2009, 9:30 La compañía japonesa ha presentado un nuevo disco duro en formato de 1,8 pulgadas y 160 Gbytes de capacidad en un solo plato, que presume por ser el de más alta densidad de la industria: 723 Mbit por milímetro cuadrado. El Toshiba MK1634GAL es ligero, pesa 48 gramos y extremadamente delgado con sus 5 milímetros, ofreciendo la mayor capacidad del mercado con plato único en factor de forma ...

Toshibas Storage Device Division today introduced a new line of 1. 8-inch hard disk drives (HDD) with up to 160GB capacity aimed at next-generation portable media players, digital video cameras and other consumer electronics products. The new line of parallel ATA HDDs - about the size of a credit card -- come in thinner and lighter form factors and have the quietest seek operation and best power consumption efficiency of any of Toshibas hard disk drives, the company said. The drives single platter, which spins at 4200RPM, has an areal density of 467Gbit per square inch. The drives have an average seek time of 15 milliseconds and a data transfer rate of 100MB/sec. The drives also come with 8MB of buffer memory. The 160GB model provides enough capacity to store as many as 45,000 digital photos, 42,000 digital music files or 130 digital videos. Apple Inc. today announced its latest iteration of the classic iPod, which comes with a 160GB hard drive, but Toshiba declined to say whether its driv ...

Toshiba debuta con HD 500 GB y 7200 rpmpor : Juan Ranchal: 17 Sep 2009, 14:30 El fabricante japonés ha presentado una nueva línea de discos duros para portátiles en formato de 2,5 pulgadas, con 500 Gbytes de capacidad de almacenamiento y velocidad de rotación de 7. 200 rpm. Toshiba indica que la nueva serie MK5056GSY aumenta la velocidad de transferencia de da ...

SuperTalent: SSD 2 TB y 1,4 GB/spor : Juan Ranchal: 17 Sep 2009, 9:00 Super Talent ha comunicado la distribución en el mes de octubre de las soluciones de almacenamiento de alto rendimiento basadas en unidades de estado sólido con interfaz PCI Express 2. 0 x8, hasta 2 Tbytes de capacidad y un ancho de banda superior a 1,4 GB/s. Anunciadas en el mes de abril y presentadas en el Computex, llegan al mercado la serie de tarjetas de almacenamiento RAIDDrive, con modelos ES para servid ...

Sony Trumps Amazon With E-book Reader Latest Tech Inciter Posts: Tuesday, August 25, 2009 Snow Leopard, More Snore Than Snarl Tuesday, August 25, 2009 Report: Tablet Is Apple's Third Try, Jobs' Top Interest Thursday, August 20, 2009 Report: Apple's Jobs Tried For Anti-Poaching Deal With Palm Thursday, August 20, 2009 Skanks For The Memories: What We Learn From Liskula's Pain Wednesday, August 19, 2009 MySpace, iLike Deal Good For Musicians And Audiences All Tech Inciter Posts More Business Center Blogs E-books are doubtless the future of reading, and Sonys newest device, the Reader Daily Edition makes good by supporting on open e-book format. But, ouch, the sticker shock! Yes, I know what books cost. I have a house full of books and stagger to think how much I have spent on them, how much room they require for housing, and how hard is it for me to part with even a single one of them. A real optimist, Ive been told, is someone who buys more books than they can ever hope to read. By that standard, I am an incredible optimist. Available in December at $399, the Sony Daily Edition has much to recommend it. First, it isnt an Amazon Kindle. That means it doesnt tie you to Amazons proprietary e-book format. That, however, also means you dont have access to all the books already available in that format and not available in ePub, which Sony supports. Amazon claims 300,000 books are available in Kindle format. I could not find a good estimate for the number of titles available i ...

Oracle has made a partial concession to users angered by its decision to retire its venerable Metalink support portal in favor of the next-generation My Oracle Support. For months, many users have expressed baffled outrage at Oracles decision to use Flash for the MOS user interface, saying it resulted in poor performance and made it difficult to do their jobs since many companies restrict the use of Flash. The sustained gripes have apparently been heard by Oracle. While MOS will remain in place, users will have an HTML user interface option, according to a forum post this week by a company official. The HTML option has only a subset of MOS functionality, including the ability to search the knowledgebase, download patches and create service requests. Users wont get more advanced features such as p ...

Nuevas y rápidas tarjetas CompactFlash de Sandisk UDMA6por : Jesús Maturana: 15 Sep 2009, 11:30 Sandisk acaba de presentar dos nuevas líneas de tarjetas de memoria CompactFlash que según anuncia la propia compañía son las más rápidas del mercado. Estamos ante los modelos Extreme y Extreme Pro que utilizan el protocolo UDMA6 y son capaces de alcanzar tasas de transferencia de 60 y 90 MB/s respectivamente. Los nuevos modelos Extreme y Extreme Pro llegan como respuesta a la necesidad de tarjetas de memoria rápidas en entornos como son la fotografía DSLR, do ...

The U. S. Federal Communications Commission is still looking for ideas on how to bring broadband to all corners of the U. S. and to increase subscriber numbers, said the director of the agencys broadband project. The FCC is about midway through a year-long effort to create a national broadband plan, and Blair Levin, executive director of the FCCs omnibus broadband initiative, said Tuesday he hopes he hasnt heard all the good ideas yet. Theres a lot of capacity for us to hear your good ideas, Levin said during a broadband policy discussion hosted by the Media and Democracy Coalition and OneWebDay. The U. S. Congress, in legislation passed early this year, required the FCC to create a national broadband plan, with a goal of providing universal broadband. Getting to universal broadband in the U. S. will take a coordinated effort by many groups, Levin said. It aint going to be done just at the FCC, Levin said. Theres no way in the world that those of us who are blessed to have the opportunity to work on this full time can actually answer the tough questions. Levin, speaking mainly to broadband activists, said its more important than ever to bring broadband to parts of the country that dont have it. More than three quarters of U. S. companies now accept resumes only online, he said, and a recent survey found that 68 percent of high school students use the Internet as their primary tool for researching assignments. What does that mean for the kids who arent online? he asked. How can they compete? The cost of digital exclusion is growing. The huge growth and success of the Internet creates some challenges, Levin added. Many new Internet users will access the Web through a wireless device, but that means the U. S. government needs to find additional wireless spectrum, he said. We can have a fantastic plan for broadband in America in the year 2020, and if theres not . . . enough spectrum being utilized, its unlikely to be successful, he added ...

Madrid, 7 de octubre de 2009Novática, revista decana de la informática española editada por la Asociación de Técnicos de Informática (ATI), ha publicado en su último número una monografía especial sobre la aplicación del software libre en entornos empresariales, disponible de forma íntegra y gratuita en su sitio web http://www. ati. es/novaticaBajo el título Software Libre para empresas esta monografía ha tenido como editores a tres destacados especialistas en este campo: Jesús M. González-Barahona, pionero del software libre en España y profesor e investigador en la Universidad Rey Juan Carlos de Móstoles (Madrid), Teófilo Romera Otero, investigador en esa misma universidad, y Björn Lundell, investigador en el Centro de Investigación en Informática de la Universidad de Skövde (Suecia). Este número monográfico especial de Novática cuenta con la contribución de expertos profesionales e investigadores a nivel internacional del mundo de la empresa, del software libre y de las relaciones entre empresa y comunidades de software libre, ofreciendo una completa panorámica actual sobre la utilización y creación de software libre por las empresas europeas. Todo ello está contenido en el número 199 de la revista Novática, disponible en versión íntegra y gratuita en el sitio web de Novática, http://www. ati. es/novatica. La ...

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