Passengers flying on Singapore Airlines between Sydney and Singapore will now be able to get an online connection at 35,000 feet.
The speed and access will be supplied via broadband connection on the ground, through Connexion by Boeing.
Auckland City has responded to the broadband challenge issued by central government and today endorsed further investigation of options to achieve full-speed broadband at significantly lower costs for Auckland city.
"Broadband is vital to our economy. It is a critical enabler of productivity, growth and economic transformation," said Cr Richard Northey, chairperson of Economic Development and Sustainable Business committee.
Air China, the flagship international air carrier in China, and Connexion by Boeing, a business unit of the Boeing Company, announced a preliminary agreement they have reached to provide real-time, high-speed connectivity to air travelers traveling to and from China.
The announcement in Beijing included as many as 15 firm and optional retrofit installations on Air China's Boeing 747-400 aircraft, and other long-haul aircraft models to be determined at a later date.
MAXIS Communications Bhd’s Indonesian subsidiary, PT Natrindo Telepon Seluler (NTS), is expected to spend more than RM100 million over the next 10 years to lease dark fibre networks. A letter of intent between NTS and fibre network service provider, PT Broadband Multimedia Tbk (BM), was signed yesterday. The deal between NTS and BM is a related party transaction.
Google is working on a project to create its own global internet protocol (IP) network, a private alternative to the internet controlled by the search giant, according to sources who are in commercial negotiation with the company.
EDGE networks - the mobile piggy-in-the-middle between GPRS and 3G networks - could be coming to the UK soon, according to a Nokia exec.
EDGE, also known as 2.75G, has been deployed in a number of European countries - including Belgium, France and Poland - but has yet to make its way to the UK.
Traditionally, operators have been sceptical of deploying the technology, having already leapfrogged EDGE in terms of speed with 3G.
However, according to Robin Lindahl, Nokia's VP of radio networks, UK operators are expressing interest in rolling out EDGE.
Computer networks continue to face the problem of being to useful for their own good.
Users are finding increasing uses for computer networks, continuing to make increasing requests for information, files or execution of different applications (which continue to become bigger and more resource intensive themselves). As more capabilities are developed, the networks invariably contain more data, new parts or both.
For many IT organizations, the holidays provide a welcome respite from the constant chaos of the rest of the year. (Not so if you work in retail, of course.) Many employees are on vacation, so the office is quiet and there are fewer interruptions. Corporate policy may rule out major configuration changes, but there's time to attend to long-deferred maintenance and documentation.
The European Union claimed success yesterday after tens of thousands of trademark owners and public institutions rushed to register “.eu” Internet addresses as the the first phase of the bloc’s domain indicator was launched.
The registration began at 11:00am (1000 GMT), and in the first 15 minutes more than 40,000 requests were received, roughly 40 per second, said the European Registry of Internet Domain Names (Eurid), a non-profit organisation appointed by the European Commission to manage requests.
In the first three hours nearly 100,000 requests were recorded.
Many Domain Name System servers are wrongly configured or running out-of-date software, leaving them vulnerable to malicious attacks, according to a study published Monday.
DNS servers, which translate domain names such as "yoursite.com" into IP addresses, underpin the workings of the Internet. In its survey, Internet performance company The Measurement Factory found that the BIND software used for domain-name resolution is out-of-date on a fifth of DNS servers.
