Korean Air gives nod to Boeing's in-flight broadband

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Boeing's in-flight broadband launched in
Asia

Boeing's in-flight broadband launched in
Asia 06/23/2004 05:28 PM
The in-flight broadband Internet access is based on the Connexion by Boeing service. Its launch in Asia follows Lufthansa AG's rollout last month on flights between Munich and Los Angeles.

Boeing's In-Flight Internet

Boeing's In-Flight Internet 07/22/2004 02:41 PM
Boeing's Connexion is finally a reality, and VoIP should help improve its chances for success.

Japan Airlines to hook into Boeing's
in-flight Net

Japan Airlines to hook into Boeing's
in-flight Net 11/12/2003 06:53 PM

Boeing adds Korean Air to flight plans

Boeing adds Korean Air to flight plans 04/26/2004 07:01 PM
Korean Air plans to offer in-flight high-speed Internet access through Connexion by Boeing.

Korean Air signs for Boeing in-flight
Internet

Korean Air signs for Boeing in-flight
Internet 04/27/2004 05:17 PM
Current plans call for the Connexion by Boeing broadband service to be installed in 33 of Korean Air's Boeing 777-200 and Boeing 747-400 jets by 2008.

FCC gives thumbs-up to in-flight
broadband

FCC gives thumbs-up to in-flight
broadband 12/19/2004 03:45 PM
High-speed Internet access may be coming to a flight near you. The FCC has voted to allow in-flight broadband, but is hesitating on green-lighting cell phone usage.

BT in broadband free flight promo

BT in broadband free flight promo 05/10/2004 08:35 AM
Get connected, then leave country

Lufthansa pilots in-flight broadband

Lufthansa pilots in-flight broadband 05/19/2004 02:44 PM
ZDNet UK May 19 2004 6:37PM GMT

Boeing, StarHub to explore in-flight
broadband roaming

Boeing, StarHub to explore in-flight
broadband roaming 04/09/2004 04:00 PM
The Boeing Co.'s Connexion by Boeing (CBB) unit and Singaporean telecommunications operator StarHub Pte. Ltd. have signed an initial agreement to let StarHub users access in-flight Internet services offered by CBB and have charges billed to their StarHub account, the companies said Thursday.

Airbus to offer in-flight mobile phone
and broadband internet services

Airbus to offer in-flight mobile phone
and broadband internet services 07/25/2004 05:33 PM
Utusan Online Jul 25 2004 8:42PM GMT

New connections: Airbus, SITA INC and
Tenzing to jointly offer in-flight
mobile phone and broadband Internet s

New connections: Airbus, SITA INC and
Tenzing to jointly offer in-flight
mobile phone and broadband Internet s 07/23/2004 06:21 AM
TravelDailyNews.com Jul 23 2004 11:04AM GMT

Airbus, SITA INC and Tenzing to Jointly
Offer In-flight Mobile Phone and
Broadband Internet Services

Airbus, SITA INC and Tenzing to Jointly
Offer In-flight Mobile Phone and
Broadband Internet Services 07/21/2004 11:11 AM
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An Appeal by 365 Korean Organizations to
the Iraqi Group Holding a Korean
National

An Appeal by 365 Korean Organizations to
the Iraqi Group Holding a Korean
National 06/21/2004 04:29 AM

Following open letter is from an OhmyNews article that encouraged wide distribution.  I don't agree with the content but I think the letter reflects the view of a small yet growing and increasingly vocal part of Korean population so here it is:

An Appeal by 365 Korean Organizations to the Iraqi Group Holding a Korean National

We appeal for the release of the Korean national Kim Seon Il.

Today the Korean people were overcome with shock at the news the Korean Kim Seon Il has been kidnapped in Iraq. His seizure and the threat against the life of this private citizen is already a source of unspeakable sadness for his family and the Korean people. This sadness and shock is the same for the many Koreans who have opposed the United States' unjust invasion and the deployment of Korean troops to Iraq.

The Korean people are well aware of the fact that the US invaded Iraq for domination and oil, and not for the freedom and peace of the Iraqi people. We know also that the US occupation of Iraq has denied the Iraqi people their sovereignty and that there have been widespread human rights abuses by US forces there, leading to Iraqi pain and loss of life. For this reason we have done all that is humanly possible to prevent the deployment of Korean troops, as they will in no way contribute to the peace and security of the Iraqi people.

The kidnapping and threatening a private citizen with death, however, will not contribute to Iraqi peace. The Iraqi people are right to resist the US's unjust invasion, occupation, and carnage. Nevertheless, kidnapping and threatening a private citizen with death cannot be justified. Doing so will only lead to a vicious cycle of blood and revenge.

Again we make an earnest appeal. Please make your claims known through dialogue and release Kim Seon Il to his family as he is of no relation to government policy.

21 June 2004

Seoul, Korea

Korean Network Against Dispatching Troops To Iraq

Boeing's Non-Advantage

Boeing's Non-Advantage 04/11/2005 03:00 PM
Boeing won't win any advantages if the WTO decides the current aircraft subsidy dispute between the U.S. and EU.

Boeing's Challenge

Boeing's Challenge 05/17/2004 12:07 PM
Boeing's focus on the 7E7 is the right path for now, but the firm will have to confront the challenge from Airbus' A380.

Boeing's Ship Comes In

Boeing's Ship Comes In 06/15/2004 10:15 AM
Boeing's new contract to build aircraft for the Navy continues its string of positive news.

Boeing's Hopes Soaring

Boeing's Hopes Soaring 07/06/2004 03:23 PM
The aviation firm looks forward to more success from its Dreamliner.

Boeing's Dream Comes True

Boeing's Dream Comes True 04/27/2004 01:16 PM
The company's fuel-efficient 7E7 Dreamliner could rule the skies.

Boeing's 7E7 to Tout Technology Advances
(AP)

Boeing's 7E7 to Tout Technology Advances
(AP) 05/24/2004 07:36 AM
AP - The first new American commercial jetliner to be built in more than a decade won't be the biggest or fastest passenger plane in the sky.

Boeing's 7E7 to tout technology advances

Boeing's 7E7 to tout technology advances 05/21/2004 02:17 PM
Boston Globe May 21 2004 6:38PM GMT

In Brief: Boeing's Connexion service
takes to the sea

In Brief: Boeing's Connexion service
takes to the sea 06/17/2005 03:46 PM

The Boeing Co.'s Connexion by Boeing satellite-delivered Internet service picked up two new clients this week. Austrian Airlines Group will install the service on its long-haul fleet, while Teekay Shipping said it will install the service on some of its ships. Austrian Airlines will install the in-flight broadband Internet service to three of its Boeing 777 aircraft and three of its Boeing 767s beginning in early 2006. Austrian Airlines becomes the third European airline to sign up for the service, after Germany's Lufthansa and SAS' Scandinavian Airline Systems. Connexion by Boeing uses satellites to provide high-speed data connections between aircraft and ground stations linked to the Internet. The connection speed is typically about 5Mbps downstream to the aircraft and 1Mbps upstream to the Internet. The deal with Teekay Shipping marks Boeing's first success in the maritime sector. Teekay will install the broadband Internet service on 50 of the its ships. The maritime service will deliver a 5Mbps downstream connection and a 256Kbps upstream service. It will support Internet access, e-mail, corporate intranet access, and other data services.

Nortel protects multimedia, IP telephony communications
June 16, 8:30 a.m. PDT
Nortel has announced two security solutions designed to ensure secure anywhere, anytime remote access to multimedia and IP telephony communication services as well as protect information from attack and theft. Nortel Secure Information Access provides access to the corporate network for mobile, remote, and home-based employees. It ensures connected systems meet an enterprise's security policy requirements for anti-virus, personal firewall, and up-to-date patches before providing access, as well as protects stored information from virus, worm, and denial-of-service attacks. Nortel's Secure Multimedia Solution is designed to enable a more secure environment for IP communications, helping to shield IP multimedia traffic such as IP telephony, video, and instant messaging from unauthorized access. It also prevents loss of intellectual property due to eavesdropping and provides authentication, authorization, and policy enforcement.

BlueCat Networks debuts caching appliance
June 16, 8:30 a.m. PDT
BlueCat Networks announced the Adonis 250 DNS Caching Appliance, which provides affordable, dedicated DNS caching functionality out of the box at the edge of corporate networks. DNS caching speeds the location of Internet addresses and relieves the load on a company's main DNS appliance. The Adonis 250 features secure managed updates and a cross-platform graphical interface to simplify administration. IT managers can use Adonis to begin processing queries with little configuration, enabling a company to speed up internal requests for external data while maintaining standards and security. The Adonis 250 DNS Caching Appliance will be available in July 2005 priced starting at $1,995.

ActiveGrid forms LAMP partnerships
June 15, 8:15 a.m. PDT
ActiveGrid announced it is partnering with open source leaders Covalent, MySQL, Novell, Red Hat, and Zend to innovate and advance the open source LAMP stack into the enterprise. The LAMP stack consists of Linux, Apache, MySQL and Perl/Python/PHP. ActiveGrid also announced partnerships with open source systems integrators Cignex and Optaros. The ActiveGrid Application Builder and Grid Application Server are designed for developers to easily create, scale, and deploy native XML enterprise applications on grids of computers. Early access versions of the open source applications can be downloaded at www.activegrid.com/downloads.  "By partnering with the key LAMP players, ActiveGrid is able to integrate the LAMP stack into a cohesive platform for enterprise customers," said Peter Yared, founder and CEO of ActiveGrid. 

Trend Micro acquires IP filtering company
June 15, 8:15 a.m. PDT
Trend Micro has acquired Kelkea, an IP filtering and reputation services company. IP filtering is a process for identifying the sources of threats, such as spam, and blocking incoming communications from known, offensive IP addresses. The acquisition is aimed at innovating Trend Micro's solutions against emerging threats such as phishing, pharming, and botnets, and enhancing its current anti-spam solutions. Kelkea chairman, founder and CEO Dave Rand has been named Trend Micro Chief Technologist of Internet Content Security to help oversee this technology integration. Trend Micro will initially offer Kelkea's existing services under its own brand name and will continue to support Kelkea's current customers.

Watchfire acquires privacy compliance software vendor
June 15, 8:15 a.m. PDT
Watchfire announced it has acquired Coast Software's entire line of online quality and privacy compliance software, including Coast Compliance Central, WebCentral, and its desktop tool Coast WebMaster. Financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed. Watchfire's WebXM online risk management platform monitors and manages online issues such as Web site security, privacy, quality, accessibility, and regulatory compliance. Watchfire plans to integrate Coast's privacy and compliance technology into WebXM, extending its capabilities in assessing online privacy compliance.

Entuity releases EYE 4.0 network management suite
June 14, 8:25 a.m. PDT
Entuity announced the release of Eye of the Storm (EYE) Version 4.0, its network management suite offering fault, performance, and inventory management in an integrated solution. Entuity has enhanced EYE's reporting capabilities, adding a new Port Availability Report to detail availability and reachability for managed ports. Automated delivery by e-mail is now available for all Essential and Flex Reports. EYE 4.0 also includes a new module that adds support for Cisco CallManager, the call-processing component of the Cisco IP Telephony solution, making VoIP implementations and post-deployment optimization easier. Other enhancements in Version 4.0 include support for IBM's BladeCenter. EYE 4.0 is currently in beta testing. It will be available at the end of June, and runs on Microsoft Windows 2003, Sun Solaris, and RedHat Linux.

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Boeing's IT Outsourcing Deals Generate
More Savings Than Expected

Boeing's IT Outsourcing Deals Generate
More Savings Than Expected 04/09/2005 07:43 PM
Information Week Apr 9 2005 10:54PM GMT

Boeing's 7E7 to tout technology
advances, creature comforts

Boeing's 7E7 to tout technology
advances, creature comforts 05/21/2004 02:17 PM
San Jose Mercury News May 21 2004 6:04PM GMT

ForeThought.net Launches Mach Broadband
- Cable-Crushing Broadband Internet
Service

ForeThought.net Launches Mach Broadband
- Cable-Crushing Broadband Internet
Service 03/14/2005 05:59 PM
foreThought.net, a Denver-based telephone and Internet company, today announced the launch of "Mach", its new ADSL 2+ broadband Internet access service. [PRWEB Mar 11, 2005]

IPWireless Mobile Broadband Technology
to Power Sentechs MyWireless, the First
Nationwide Broadband Wireles

IPWireless Mobile Broadband Technology
to Power Sentechs MyWireless, the First
Nationwide Broadband Wireles 12/10/2003 04:16 PM
ECTA Portal Dec 10 2003 1:56PM ET

Cisco Powers Hong Kong Broadband
Network's 100Mbps and 1Gbps Residential
Broadband Services

Cisco Powers Hong Kong Broadband
Network's 100Mbps and 1Gbps Residential
Broadband Services 02/01/2005 09:50 PM
Investors Business Daily Feb 2 2005 1:50AM GMT

Broadband National, Inc. Teams with NCC
to Offer VoIP and Broadband Solutions

Broadband National, Inc. Teams with NCC
to Offer VoIP and Broadband Solutions 06/17/2005 03:16 PM
Broadband National Inc. a has teamed with National Communications Contracting, Inc. to offer high speed solutions to NCC customers inquiring about the telecommunication products and services the company offers. NCC will leverage Broadband National’s IBIS (Integrated Broadband Information System) to deploy broadband and VoIP solutions to small, medium and enterprise level customers. Broadband National’s proprietary platform enables end users to instantly compare broadband solutions offered by more than 40 different suppliers, including SBC Internet Services, Comcast, Covad, XO Communications, ITC DeltaCom, SpeakEasy, and Nuvox. [PRWEB Jun 16, 2005]

Time Broadband cuts prices for Internet
broadband service

Time Broadband cuts prices for Internet
broadband service 02/12/2004 02:02 PM
Utusan Online Feb 12 2004 6:43PM GMT

Nethercomm Corporation Comments on
Forbes Article where Broadband-in-Gas
Stands out among Traditional Broadband
Technologies by Delivering Connectivity
of 100+Mbps

Nethercomm Corporation Comments on
Forbes Article where Broadband-in-Gas
Stands out among Traditional Broadband
Technologies by Delivering Connectivity
of 100+Mbps 06/05/2005 11:18 PM
Nethercomm Corporation Addresses Forbes Article "Seven Ways to get Traditional Broadband Services", which highlights Broadband-in-Gas, a Compelling Broadband Technology Enabling “Previously Unobtainable Levels of Connectivity of 100+Mbps” [PRWEB May 27, 2005]

Innovative Broadband Broker Saves
Businesses, Non Profits, Schools and
Government Offices Thousands of Dollars
on T1,DSL,and Broadband. Complimentary
Consultations Available - Act Now!

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Businesses, Non Profits, Schools and
Government Offices Thousands of Dollars
on T1,DSL,and Broadband. Complimentary
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1st-T1-DSL-Broadband.com offers customers *The world's only real-time T1 price tool *Low Price Guarantee - We will not be undersold *Free unbiased price research will save you money [PRWEB Aug 10, 2004]

Wireless broadband has developed into a
truly versatile broadband communications
medium while the national local loops
experience ongoing access problems

Wireless broadband has developed into a
truly versatile broadband communications
medium while the national local loops
experience ongoing access problems 07/08/2004 03:39 AM
Research and Markets are delighted to announce the addition of 2004 Global Wireless Broadband Report to their offering [PRWEB Jul 8, 2004]

Broadband Envy: Fixing American
Broadband

Broadband Envy: Fixing American
Broadband 09/02/2004 10:01 AM

First flight

First flight 06/05/2005 11:32 PM

My boys Alex(8) and Linus(6) didn't know until this morning, but today they're about to take their first airplane ride. Their mom's taking them down to Orlando to see uncle Chris compete in the Florida Half-Ironman and spend a day at Universal Studios. I'm staying home with Leo(2). I told them the news this morning and Alex's response was classic Alex: "awww, I don't wanna to miss school for two whole days." Linus, who consistently plays Pig Will to Alex's Pig Won't, was ecstatic.

Korean Archery

Korean Archery 08/22/2004 09:18 PM

South Korea's continuing dominance in archery is amazing but, like the effect of monopoly on economy, I think overdominance is starting to hurt international archery competitions.

IMHO, countries overdominating a field of sports should share it's knowhows and training programs with rest of the world, particularly with those countries that never had a chance to win an olympic medal.  For example, South Korean archery association should offer archery scholarships for amateur archers from third-world countries.  I am sure Korean companies like Samsung and LG will be glad to sponsor such scholarship programs.

Imagine the joy everyone will feel when those athletes win their countries' first olympic medal.  I also think such programs are far more rewarding than traditional international aids and foreign relation efforts.

Korean Slavery

Korean Slavery 05/04/2004 04:47 PM
Korean Slavery - Mark A. Peterson [pdf]

Tigers in the Korean DMZ?

Tigers in the Korean DMZ? 09/11/2004 12:49 PM
Xeni Jardin: Snipped from Bruce Sterling's Viridian Design email newsletter, a New York Times story about wild animals reclaiming the heavily-landmined DMZ that divides North and South Korea.

[E]nvironmentalists have recognized this area one of the most enduring symbols of the cold war and one of the most fortified and heavily mined stretches on earth as the Korean peninsula's, and possibly East Asia's, most important wildlife refuge. They have been pressing to preserve it but are feeling a special urgency now because of the growing reconciliation between the North and the South. The environmentalists fear that a South Korea that puts economic development first and a North Korea that has no environmental movement could together lead to the zone's rapid destruction as a refuge. (..)

"The DMZ is the last major vestige of Korea's natural heritage," said Kim Ke Chung, a professor at the Center for BioDiversity Research at Penn State and chairman of the DMZ Forum, an organization based in the United States that is dedicated to preserving the zone. "It's probably the only good thing to come out of the Korean War and cold war. So we have to preserve this as a nature reserve." [Bruce Sterling says: "How did the Cold War become the 'cold war' all of a sudden?]

The DMZ Forum recently held a conference in Seoul to gather support for designating the zone a Unesco World Heritage Site, a classification that would curb all development. William B. Shore, secretary of the forum and a former fellow at the Regional Plan Association of New York, said the zone should become a center for eco-tourism as an alternative to turning it into a weekend getaway for residents of Seoul.

"People are now willing to pay large sums to see wild animals in the proper setting," Mr. Shore said. "Eco-tourism would protect the DMZ from becoming the Hamptons of South Korea." [Bruce Sterling says: "Perhaps it's possible to transform the Hamptons into a DMZ."]

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Korean Bloggers

Korean Bloggers 06/05/2005 11:34 PM
Thanks to Jin Ho, Heewon, Goo Dong-Eon, Xenix, Qho, Young Wook, and BK for a very interesting dinner discussion and explaining the Korean blogging scene to me.

Korea is reported by the OECD to have the highest high-speed Internet penetration of any nation. Korea has an extremely vibrant gaming, blogging, mobile phone and youth culture scene and I was eager to find out more about what was going on. I scribbled a bunch of notes over coffee during the day and over dinner. Please excuse any errors since I have not been able to fact check everything. If you could point them out and let me update them, I would appreciate it.

According to articles in the press, there are 5-6 million blogs. These are not to be confused with hompy. Hompy (a derivative of home page) are personal home pages with photo albums, guest books, avatars, background skins, and background music. There are approximately 10 million hompy pages. In a city with a population of 10 million and a country with a population of 45 million, that's quite impressive. Companies seem to be making money selling background music and items for hompy pages. Most of the posts are focused on photos and one line comments on pages of friends. They are generally closed communities and are focused more on real-time presence-like communication rather than diary or dialog.

Cyworld, which sounded like the leader for hompys has a feature they call "scratch scrap". This allows you to copy/paste content from other web pages easily to your hompy. On of the problems that I see with this is that this simple built-in feature does not provide a link back to the original source. It is rumored engineers who designed this left and joined Naver, one of the leading blog companies and created a similar feature for them. Generally speaking, it sounded like people don't link very much. They are still mostly plain html and not css + xhtml. There seemed to be some trackback implementation, but it is not yet as widely used as in the US or Japan. As far as I could tell, none of the blog systems used any of the standard APIs, and some had RSS feeds. Blogs and hompys don't seem to be pinging any pinger sites, which makes them nearly invisible to the outside world. In addition, many sites block search engine bots from crawling hompys and blogs.

It appears that one of the biggest problems is that there are several 800 pound gorilla type portals that remind me of AOL during it's powerful years. They try to create walled gardens of users. With millions of bloggers and hompy users in each community, they are focused more on integrating inside of their portals than open standards or linking across portals. There are some independent blog services and aggregators, but they still seem to be focused on community and somewhat inward facing networks. A not-so-visibile majority of blogs in Japan and the US are also this way, but the public facing citizen journalist or pundit-style blogs seem to be very sparse in Korea.

One of the reasons might be due to the success of OhmyNews. I visited OhmyNews as well, and they are truly an online newspaper powerhouse. You can read about them in detail in Dan Gillmor's We the Media, but they are a edited news website with droves of citizen journalists who submit articles. They have courses in writing for the citizen journalists, tip jars that people can pay them through, editors to help with the important stories, lots of influence and visibility and offline community activities. I can imagine that someone who had something political or pundit-like to say might easily choose to write for OhmyNews than to start a blog. This doesn't describe everything, but I'm sure that OhmyNews has attracted a fair number of the potential media blogger types.

I still have a lot to learn but the incredible difference in the blogging scene and the apparent happiness with what the people had considering the widespread adoption made me wonder if the Korean blogs would ever look like American or Japanese blogs. (Many aspects of the Japanese blogging scene seem to be following in the footsteps of the US blogging scene, albeit with some differences.)

Update:

4- jaz @ June 2, 2005 10:43 AM

hey joi. the function is called "scrap," not "scratch"
what it allows you to do is to display a particular post from someone's mini-hompy (cyworld) - if the permission setting of that post is set to "allow scrap" - not from just any website. there's a watermark-like feature that goes with it, which displays the original author's name and the link back to the origianl mini-hompy.

Sorry about the error. I was told however, that most bloggers and hompyiers didn't cite or link. Someone said that the big portals encouraged because it allowed all of the content to be searched inside the portal, rather than offsite. Does anyone have any more information on this?

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Flight of the Geeks

Flight of the Geeks 09/09/2004 06:30 PM

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can you load me up some flight sim on
that?

can you load me up some flight sim on
that? 09/25/2004 03:25 AM
The Visualization Portal's default description page starts off kind of slow and ho-hum, with some pretty basic and dated looking graphics. And even a little weird, artsy. The actual main news page is better. The Visualization Portal is nearly a Heinlein-esque 3D 3D visualization tank. These pics of past events are cool. You can visit the portal at UCLA for free.
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