Airport Scanners Damaging Amazon Kindles?
Several travellers have complained that the X-ray scanners at airports have mangled the screen of their Amazon Kindle e-reader devices. According to The Telegraph, travellers claim that the electronic...
View ArticleFrench Airport Uses NFC To Check-In Passengers
French airport, Toulouse-Blagnac, is trialling a new NFC system that allows passengers to check-in and check departure times with their mobile phones. Using their NFC enabled devices, passengers will...
View ArticleFujifilm and Xerox unite to build a robotic printer so smart it delivers...
Everything seems to be getting smarter these days. We have smartphones, smartwatches, smart cars, even smart sport stadiums, all of which are designed to enhance our user experience. Now, Fujifilm and...
View ArticleIt’s alive! Google Glass being tested at Amsterdam airport
Google Glass is dead? Well, actually, no it isn’t, as Glass is already being used in some workplaces, like Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport, for example. The cessation of the Explorer programme certainly...
View ArticleAmazon freebies and naked celebs: The top 10 global software failures of 2014
From shoppers securing festive bargains for just 1p, to aircrafts being grounded in some of the world’s busiest airports, 2014 featured an abundance of software glitches. Several of the outages could...
View ArticleAirports can be hacked using just a common laptop
Cyber security from I-Team investigation revealed that hackers could have the ability to shut down an airport’s security network just using a laptop. [see_also] It is embarrassing to read that systems...
View ArticleDrones causing ‘huge issue’ for emergency services in US
Drones are proving increasingly problematic for emergency services in the US, leading to calls for tighter regulations surrounding their use. The US Forest Service has recorded 13 incidences of drones...
View ArticleGatwick Airport will use big data to optimise operations
Gatwick Airport is moving into the predictive technology domain to better handle hundreds of flights and millions of passengers it sees every year, it was said on Monday. According to a report by V3,...
View ArticleGatwick has the worst internet of all of London’s airports
The internet speed of airports in London vary dramatically, but none of them offer “superfast” internet, at least not by government standards. According to a research by independent broadband advice...
View ArticleEE offers fastest mobile internet at London’s airports
Do you know which network offers the best mobile internet speeds at London’s airports? RootMetrics, the standard for mobile performance measurement, analysed these speeds and published a report, saying...
View ArticleHow passengers are imagining the airport of the future
New technology is transforming every business in the world, but it’s interesting to see how passengers are imagining the airport of the future. A survey was recently conducted by UK’s flight comparison...
View Article5 ways biometrics can improve your life
We all know the feeling; you’re running late and are desperate to quickly get where you need to go, only to be held up by the need to identify yourself. In today’s world we tend to accept that if you...
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