In-flight broadband ready for takeoff
Internet content and technology provider ScreamingMedia Inc. said on Monday it reached a deal with Boeing Co., the world’s largest commercial aircraft maker, to provide passengers with broadband access services, including Internet and e-mail, while they fly.
We are licensing our core software, the SiteWare, which will sit on the ground in the Boeing
Connexion content center, said ScreamingMedia Chief Executive Kevin Clark in an interview, referring to the new service, named Connexion by Boeing.
He said the deal was the largest content and licensing contract ever for ScreamingMedia, although he did not provide financial terms. Previously, a similar agreement with AT&T Corp., the biggest U.S. long-distance and cable TV company, had been ScreamingMedia’s No. 1 deal.
Grifter: You know lately I've been flying Jet Blue Airways back and forth between SLC and NYC and when I first heard there was DirectTV in each seat, I thought that was about the coolest thing an airline could do....I stand corrected.
