Android Now Number One, Worldwide
Android has been the most popular operating system for new smartphones in the US for some time, but until recently, the rest of the world has shown a very different set of results. Nokia has …
January 2011
Weekly Roundup Friday 28 January 2011
Good morning Thanks for everyone who participated in this week's survey – more than three times as many people had an opinion about flying in a single engined jet than had an opinion about airports' …
Airline Roundup Friday 28 January 2011
What a dismal week it has been. Snow and bad weather galore if you were on the East coast. About the only good news to come from this is further evidence that global warming is …
Security Roundup Friday 28 January 2011
This Week's Security Horror Story : A 37 year old software developer and Seattle resident, Philip Mocek, was arrested and charged with four offenses after refusing to show ID at Albuquerque airport and filming his …
An Alternative to the Present Ineffectual Security Madness
As longer time readers will know, I write weekly about the problems with present airport security, and security in general. Goodness only knows there’s always a surfeit of ‘security horror stories’ to parade in front …
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Protecting our Airports Will Make Our Lives More Dangerous, Rather than More Safe
Following on from the airport bombing in Moscow earlier this week, and with an obvious inevitability, all the usual talking heads have erupted into a predictable clamor of commentary about ‘the need to make our …
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Want to Lose Weight? Turn Down the Heat!
An interesting study done by the University College London and published in the Obesity Reviews journal on Tuesday correlates rising obesity rates with our living in environments that are steadily becoming warmer and more comfortable. …
Moscow Airport Terror Bombing – 31+ dead, 130+ injured
At 4.32pm Moscow time today (Monday morning – 1332 GMT, 8.32am in New York, 5.32am in Los Angeles) some type of bomb exploded in the luggage claim area of the international arrivals hall at Moscow’s …
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Weekly Roundup Friday 21 January 2011
Let's start the newsletter with another reader survey. Later in this week's compilation of articles, you'll see mention of new airplane designs being developed by Lockheed Martin, Boeing, and Northrop Grumman (pictured here are two …
Security Roundup Friday 21 January 2011
This Week's Security Horror Story : The US refuses to allow a nine year old boy to travel to Disney World in FL with his English parents. His parents are allowed to come, but strangely, …
Will We End Up With Only One Airline in the Entire World
Might the future of airline ownership see the world ending up with only one single airline conglomerate, operating some number of 'competing' brands? We have seen the first steps towards that with the common ownership …
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Of Lies, Damn Lies, and Airplane Manufacturers
There have been some interesting airplane related announcements this week. The most interesting concerned a large 'order' (the reason for the quotes will become apparent) when a White House briefing coinciding with Chinese President Hu …
