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Last Saturday a Continental Airlines Boeing 737 ran off the runway at Denver International Airport into a ravine. The resulting fire destroyed the right side of the plane, and 58 were injured, although none killed.
Mike Wilson was on board, and once he was safely back in the airport, he began using the popular micro-blogging site Twitter to relate his experiences.
His first post was: "Holy f—ing s—, I was just in a plane crash."
Apple has updated its Airport Express wireless base station to 802.11n, offering up to twice the range and five times the performance of previous 802.11g models while keeping the base station at its attractive $99 price point. The AirPort Express has proven popular with travelers and other mobile users for its diminutive size and portability; home users also appreciate its built-in USB printer sharing feature and AirTunes, the ability to stream music from a Mac or PC with iTunes to a home stereo.
Wi-Fi service provider Boingo Wireless today extended the number of hotspots their user base can roam to. A deal with Opti-Fi Networks adds wireless networks at 30 North American airports.
This agreement, Boingo said, allows for high speed wireless Internet access at American and Canadian airports including “Albany, NY, International Airport; Edmonton, Alberta, International Airport; Hamilton, Ontario, International Airport; Jackson Hole, WY, Airport, and many others from coast to coast. It also includes access at Airtran Airways gates at many major airports including Atlanta-Hartsfield International Airport; Baltimore-Washington International Airport; Chicago Midway Airport; and Miami International Airport.â€
Aruba Wireless Networks (Aruba) today announced that the Las Vegas McCarran International Airport, a global leader in airport management, will provide the country’s largest free airport- widewireless fidelity (Wi-Fi) service, covering nearly 2 million square feet, using its centralized wireless system.
Over 36 million travelers that pass through McCarran airport each year will be able to take advantage of the free service from anywhere within the airport.
The new Wi-Fi service will allow McCarran to ultimately provide a wide range of innovative services to travelers such as being able to check flight information from Wi-Fi enabled displays and access reservation kiosk services. The new wireless environment is also being used to support airport productivity and operational applications.
Following in the footsteps of electronics makers Apple, Gateway and Sony, PalmOne on Friday unveiled its flagship store in Philadelphia’s International Airport. It brings to 11 locations the Milpitas, California-based company has quietly opened since 2002.
The stores, in coastal states such as New Jersey and California and ranging from walk-through kiosks to large shopping mall and airport locations, will help PalmOne introduce low-end Zire and business-driven Tungsten handhelds and Treo mobile phones to consumers who do not normally shop in stores like Best Buy or Circuit City.
Read more at Reuters.
The most rapid usage increase is in Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport, which went into service in January.
“Detroit has about the same passenger volume as our other Midwest airport, Minneapolis/St Paul International, where daily sessions are running well ahead of our projections”, said Joseph Beatty, CEOof Concourse. “The Minneapolis system has been in service for over two years and in March had over 5,000 user sessions. We fully expect Detroit Metro to post that kind of number in a few more monthsas awareness grows.” Usage at LaGuardia is solid and Newark Liberty International Airport is off to a strong start having just gone into service last month.
AirPort Extreme is the next generation of Wi-Fi wireless networking technology based on the new ultra-fast 802.11g standard. Compatible with millions of 802.11b-based Wi-Fi products, 802.11g offersdata rates almost five times faster and is quickly gaining widespread acceptance as the next generation standard for wireless networking.*
“Apple was the first computer company to ship 802.11b products with the launch of AirPort in 1999, and now we’re the first company to ship 802.11g in volume with AirPort Extreme,†said Greg Joswiak, Apple’s vice president of Hardware Product Marketing. “802.11g-based AirPort Extreme runs five times faster than 802.11b, but it’s fully backward compatible with the millions of 802.11b Wi-Fi products.â€
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