November 5th, 2008
Our buds over at Jaunted just gave us the heads up that Virgin America will begin rolling out Aircell’s Gogo service, which we reviewed back in August, on November 22. The “beta” flight will take off from SFO, VA’s HQ, to JFK. Virgin plans to roll out the in-flight broadband service on one plane per [...]
October 9th, 2008
Sorry, people. The dream is over. American Airlines has decided that it, along with Delta (and the flight attendants), does not want porn on its flights — despite receiving no complaints whatsoever. Say they:
Based on the feedback of our customers and employees, American Airlines is working with Aircell(R) to implement technology to filter pornographic content [...]
October 3rd, 2008
While Delta initially said it had no plans to filter Web sites from its in-flight broadband offerings, complaints have caused the airline to change its mind. When the service launches later this, Delta will block inappropriate Web sites, thus saving humanity from itself.
A Delta spokesperson says the filtering will be limited in scope, he didn’t [...]
September 9th, 2008
Canadian travelers will soon be able to emulate their favorite CrunchGear blogger, Peter Ha, as they glom on to Aircell’s Gogo wireless internet service aboard their next international Air Canada flight. You’ll recall that Sweet Pete recently blogged from 37,000 feet using Gogo service aboard American Airlines. What fun we all had!
You’ll have to wait [...]
August 28th, 2008
So you’ve found a way to make VoIP calls on American Airlines flights with Gogo by using some Flash-based service? Good for you, really, but anyone saying that they’ve hacked the system needs to reassess the meaning of the term. Stumbling upon an app that works is not hacking anything. It’s called being lucky. I [...]
August 26th, 2008
Now that in-flight internet is becoming a normal option, a certain taboo activity is popping up more and more during those long, lonely flights. A few airlines have taken the issue upon themselves to lock down certain themed sites but that doesn’t rule out already downloaded material. Then other airlines, such as American Airlines, are offering unfiltered service and [...]
August 21st, 2008
I know Mossberg ‘reviewed’ the service a while back, but he was on the plane by himself with a cornucopia of devices. That’s not a real world situation. I was skeptical of the whole thing like most of you were, but after yesterday I’m completely sold. It’s not earth shattering or anything. I mean, it’s [...]
August 21st, 2008
Green: New York City mayor wants to install windmills all over the place
Research firm: Global solar cell market to explode by 2012, America will gain influence
Blogging live from 37,000 feet via Aircell’s Gogo inflight Wi-Fi on American Airlines
MIT team creating nano-batteries using viruses as builders
Karl Zahn’s Smart Kleat
August 20th, 2008
Today’s Top Posts:
Blogging live from 37,000 feet via Aircell’s Gogo inflight Wi-Fi on American Airlines
10 Days of CrunchGear: Hey, teacher, leave our mini-PCs alone
Wall-mounted CD player for people who still own compact discs and can easily part with $178
Palm Treo Pro now officially official
Three new Exilim models in October from Casio
Soundmatters’ foxL: A portable speaker [...]
August 20th, 2008
I guess my mystery device isn’t supported, but I’ll try it out anyway.
