'Dear American Airlines'
Bill Gates is retiring - he gets frustrated with Microsoft products too! Read his blow by blow attempts to download Moviemaker here.
Gizmodo takes us down into the secret vault of Legos. Watch this video now in a browser or download this video now. Now you can surf while you fly! On the first American Airlines flight - the wi-fi was free- but when the program launches - it's gonna cost ya...Why advertise TO young folks when they can do the advertising for you?
Sprint will give you some pocket cash - all you have to do is make a commercial for the new Samsung Instinct Phone and upload it to YouTube. - The Social Networking Blog:
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Passengers will be able to perform a limited number of functions using the broadband connection, but it’s likely to be enough for the majority of passengers. I can dream.
Avril Lavigne fans are using a refresher website to bump their girl to the top slot in YouTube - which is against policy. American Airlines has teamed up with Aircell to extend this feature to their passengers, leveraging Aircell’s Gogo service. It’s only a matter of time before airlines start finding ways in which to charge for even more peripherals, and set up a media portal full of branding and more pay-as-you-go features as a result of offering broadband on flights. Video download, instant messaging, email and access to corporate networks will be allowed, and broadband usage will be regulated to a certain extent so that users downloading larger files will not ruin the connection speed for the rest of the passengers.
Considering there’s a cost for broadband use (as there’s a cost for everything on flights these days), I’d prefer to download the movies before I get on the plane, so I can watch them in-flight. For flights over 3 hours long, the fee will be $12.95, and shorter flights will run you $9.95.
Is it worth it?
ICANN may loosen up restrictions on domain names. Someday there could be a WebbAlert.MorganWebb -- except I don't have the 50k you might need to register the domain. Tom goes into great depth on the underlying technology and the roadmap for future deployment.
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American Airlines Starts Testing In-Flight Broadband
American Airlines announced their intent to begin testing in-flight broadband late last year, along with most of the other major airlines that operate in the US. How long before they take it down? Hopefully such a portal will come with some
personalized custom options that extend the experience beyond the flight itself.
As Aircell SVP Tom Weigman discussed with Mark “Rizzn” Hopkins on the Mashable Conversations podcast back in March their plans to start servicing with Internet service American Airlines and Virgin America flights across America. Today we learn from WebProNews that American Airlines is allowing passengers in on the testing phase, beginning with a flight between New York and Los Angeles.
Testing may expand to flights between New York and San Francisco as well as flights between New York and Miami in the coming weeks. Yes. The embed is available below, or you can download the MP3 file directly here.
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