For example, using the technology means planes carry less weight and so less fuel is consumed. In the week in which British Airways finally announced it is retiring its loss-making fleet of Concorde aircraft, airports and beleaguered airlines are...
With commercial rollouts of Wi-Fi technology in planes fast approaching, users of laptops in cabins - as well as other public places - have been warned about an easy-to-overlook security threat: shoulder surfing.
The computing element is only the enabler," he said. On-demand computing dovetails with the utility computing idea, which has it that customers should be able to pay varying prices for computing power depending on how demand for that power waxes...
But it is interesting to hear that Network Rail regarded in-house IT as a critical element for taking direct responsibility for railway track maintenance. Martin Brampton looks at whether sending IT out-of-house lives up to its supposed benefits.
Aircraft like the Eclipse 500, however, will eventually change the way planes are made. Raburn said he expects the company to get Federal Aviation Administration approval to use the planes in a commercial setting in about a year.
As an engineering company, we were starting to become concerned at the never-ending quest for clock speed at the expense of energy efficiency," he said. Businesses are dealing with more data, they're trying to get data out to more places in the...