Pre-travel shopping platform from InterLnkd and PLAY airlines
Thursday, October 17, 2024 by Austin Harris
InterLnkd has teamed up with PLAY airlines to launch the carrier’s new pre-travel shopping platform, offering curated products to customers in both Europe and North America.
Announced at the World Aviation Festival, the partnership will see PLAY become the first airline to offer this functionality to North American travellers. Leveraging InterLnkd’s dynam...
Flight to the Future adds 1 million drone-based jobs
Tuesday, August 18, 2020 by Brittany Hainzinger
Earlier this summer, Aquiline Drones (AD) launched a new employment initiative called Flight to the Future (F2F) to help pilots and the general public re-boot their careers by becoming certified commercial drone operators. This is to fulfill the increasing demand for commercial drone services nationwide. Now, the organization has announced a massive corporate offi...
Memory module XRDIMM gets aviation equipment certification
Friday, September 13, 2019 by Austin Harris
Apacer announces the release of the XR-DIMM. This rugged memory module is the first on the market to meet the exacting standards of the US RTCA DO-160G test, an aviation equipment certification that marks the XR-DIMM as resistant to high levels of vibration and therefore ideal for defense and aeronautical applications.
Since 2018, Apacer has been manufacturing DDR4 X...
Warnings for aircraft cybersecurity
Thursday, August 1, 2019 by Brittany Hainzinger
The Department of Homeland Security issued a security alert for small planes, warning that modern flight systems are vulnerable to hacking if someone manages to gain physical access to the aircraft. Engine readings, compass data, altitude and other readings “could all be manipulated to provide false measurements to the pilot,” according to the DHS alert.&nbs...
Flying cars could be here sooner than you think
Wednesday, June 13, 2018 by Richard Harris
According to a recent report from Frost & Sullivan, flying cars are set to disrupt the mobility space with at least ten early entrants expected to launch various versions of flying cars by 2022. With helicopters and other adaptable aviation playing a vital role in supporting law enforcement throughout the U.S., airborne technology is becoming an important accessory ...
Introducing The Alliance for Drone Innovation
Wednesday, April 11, 2018 by Austin Harris
The Alliance for Drone Innovation (ADI), a new policy-oriented coalition of manufacturers, suppliers, and software developers of personal and professional drones, has commenced operations to represent the interests of individuals, businesses, governments, scientists, academics and others who fly unmanned aircraft in the United States. Jenny Rosenberg, former Department ...
GE and Apple partner to change the industrial world with apps
Monday, October 23, 2017 by Richard Harris
Apple and GE has announced a partnership to deliver powerful industrial apps designed to bring predictive data and analytics from Predix, GE’s industrial Internet of Things (IoT) platform, to iPhone and iPad. The two companies unveiled a new Predix software development kit (SDK) for iOS, which gives developers the tools to make their own powerful industrial IoT apps.“GE...
Flying cars are going to be a reality
Tuesday, February 14, 2017 by Austin Harris
A pair of recent announcements from Shanghai-based Ehang and the Israeli firm Urban Aeronautics have advanced the concept of the flying car - long a staple of science fiction - from the imaginary distant future to a looming reality. In January, a year after debuting its drone at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Ehang released video footage showing its Ehang 1...
Prevent disasters with risk management and being a grown up!
Friday, January 27, 2017 by Gordon McKeown
We live in an era of dramatic, improbable events that adversely affect the economy, the environment, the fate of household name companies and people’s welfare and health. Or at least they seem improbable until they hurl themselves violently upon us from the shadows of our agreeable ignorance. Strangely, with hindsight they often appear inevitable. Bloated, failed banks ...
The Weather Channel Shows IBM How to IoT
Friday, November 6, 2015 by Richard Harris
Its all blue skies for the folks at the Weather Channel as IBM has announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire The Weather Company’s B2B, mobile and cloud-based web properties, including WSI, weather.com, Weather Underground and The Weather Company brand. The Weather Channel is not part of the agreement, but the TV channel will license weather forecast da...
GE's Predix Cloud to Usher in a New Era for Industrial Data and Analytics
Monday, August 10, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
GE is entering the cloud services market with Predix Cloud, a cloud solution designed specifically for industrial data and analytics. Predix Cloud is offered as a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) to help companies capture and analyze large volumes, velocities and varieties of machine data within a highly secure, industrial-strength cloud environment. Predix Cloud will ...
