Why does Florida have so many airports?

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Florida Nursing Students Association and
AfterCollege HealthcarePartner to Create
Online Destination for Largest Audience
of Student Nurses in Florida

Florida Nursing Students Association and
AfterCollege HealthcarePartner to Create
Online Destination for Largest Audience
of Student Nurses in Florida 03/29/2005 03:55 AM
AfterCollege Healthcare will power the Florida Nursing Students Association web site and Job Resource Center, delivering relevant employment information to over 3,000 association members. [PRWEB Mar 29, 2005]

Our Airports, Ourselves

Our Airports, Ourselves 07/10/2004 10:42 AM
The airport sits at the center of a tangle of American values that have been called into question by terrorist attacks and the war on terror.

Even Small Airports Get Wi-Fi

Even Small Airports Get Wi-Fi 12/16/2003 01:42 PM
The Evansville, Ind. Regional airport is hoping to build a Wi-Fi network: The airport managers have spoken with different companies about building the network and may go with SBC, which would build the network for free and offer the airport a cut of profits. The airport would then partner with one of the larger hotspot providers to market and bill the service. If you read the article, you'll also learn about other exciting changes at the airport, like a new restaurant....

Boingo in 75 Airports

Boingo in 75 Airports 08/04/2004 11:42 AM
Boingo partners with ICOA, expands to 75 airports: The battle for road warriors hearts and minds starts and ends in the airport. Boingo now has a roaming deal for all six of Icoa's airports, and 69 others worldwide. The other day, I noted that SBC had signed up to resell access at or operate service in many of the U.S. airports that offer service. If they broker a few more deals, they could have the only comprehensive airport service plan. A colleague of mine, a technology writer who travels frequently, says he rarely sees people working on laptops in airports. I don't know how that's possible, with the gate areas full of laptop users before flights furtively plugged into power. He's fallen in love with a Treo, which allowed him to skip opening his laptop on a recent trip. I still wonder how many applications people actually need. Does Blackberry's success show that low-speed email is the primary application and that everything else is a distant second? I doubt it every time I see a plane full of cramped business people desperately typing away, reviewing Acrobat documents, building PowerPoint presentations, running Excel spreadsheets, and using proprietary software....

Norway Airports Get Wi-Fi

Norway Airports Get Wi-Fi 11/10/2003 10:53 PM
Proxim said it will provide the gear for hot spots in all of Norway's airports: The networks should be live by the end of the year. It's not clear how many airports are part of this deal but it may just include four....

Airports, get a clue!

Airports, get a clue! 07/27/2004 11:18 PM

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Wi-Fi continues it’s reach as it becomes more common in airports across the country. It has certainly taken long enough, but it looks like airports are finally beginning to catch on to the fact that this is prime real estate for a Wi-Fi hot spot to be installed. What has me scratching my head is the fact that they are only now cluing into this. Do the people that are sitting there in airports with…

Airports eye iris scanners

Airports eye iris scanners 02/17/2004 06:32 PM
globetechnology.com Feb 17 2004 11:08PM GMT

Cell lots' help airports

Cell lots' help airports 12/28/2004 09:09 AM
USA Today Dec 28 2004 1:31PM GMT

T-Mobile Adds UK Airports

T-Mobile Adds UK Airports 05/10/2004 08:55 AM
T-Mobile will offer service throughout Heathrow, Gatwick, and Glasgow airports: The deal comes with the typically high fees charged in Europe, staring at £1.50 for 15 minutes and £5.00 for an hour, and heading north to £16.50 for 24 hours. A day rate for T-Mobile in the US is $10 or about 75 percent less....

AirPorts Express and Extreme: who should
use which?

AirPorts Express and Extreme: who should
use which? 06/16/2004 09:58 AM
by Dennis Sellers - On June 7th Apple introduced the AirPort Express and AirTunes products...

Free wireless internet at airports

Free wireless internet at airports 03/06/2004 02:05 AM
OnBusiness Mar 5 2004 7:28AM GMT

Airlines win Wi-Fi management battle
with airports

Airlines win Wi-Fi management battle
with airports 06/25/2004 05:21 PM
The FCC ruled that it has exclusive jurisdiction over the unlicensed Wi-Fi spectrum, meaning airlines can run their own operate wireless bag-scanning and check-in systems free from local airport rules, regulations and fees.

Technology, Security Meeting at Airports

Technology, Security Meeting at Airports 05/09/2004 02:21 PM
Boston Globe May 9 2004 5:47PM GMT

U.S. Begins Digital Fingerprinting In
Airports

U.S. Begins Digital Fingerprinting In
Airports 01/07/2004 02:38 PM
lemist writes "Cross Match has rolled out digital fingerprinting at major airports in the United States according to MSNBC. It's designed to increase border ...

Crisis talks in airports dispute

Crisis talks in airports dispute 07/07/2004 02:54 AM
Unions representing airport baggage handlers will meet bosses after workers voted to strike over a pay dispute.

Brian Eno's Music for Airports

Brian Eno's Music for Airports 12/02/2003 12:19 AM
It's rare that I recommend music, but I've recently decided that Brian Eno's Music For Airports is some of the best background music for writing. I've owned this particular CD for at least 4 years but have only recently begun to listen to it with any regularity. A couple weeks ago, I popped it into the CD player while hacking on a book chapter and left it on repeat. Since then I haven't even thought of taking it out...

Sprint PCS, AT&T Wireless Roam Airports

Sprint PCS, AT&T Wireless Roam Airports 04/19/2004 09:34 AM
With a handful of major and minor airports, the two cell carriers tiny portfolio will have bilateral roaming: This tiny deal represents airports as large as Denver and properties like Salt Lake City that aren't up and running yet, and shows the incremental and tedious steps taken to stitch together networks. The significant fact is that the two networks, which currently mostly resell Wayport locations, are willing to work directly together with bilateral roaming. It's part of a strategy: neither company could possibly have more than a few hundred monthly unlimited customers because it's cheaper to pay Wayport or Boingo Wireless for unlimited access to the subset of locations and then pay as you go on occasion in certain airports. AT&T Wireless charges the absurd price of $70 per month. Sprint PCS, however, is starting their build-out in a big way, and AT&T Wireless resells Cometa locations (though it doesn't list them in its Wi-Fi directory), which aren't yet part of Wayport's networks....

Airports Begin Ban on Cigarette Lighters
(AP)

Airports Begin Ban on Cigarette Lighters
(AP) 04/14/2005 04:17 AM
AP - When Mike Metzger tossed his cigarette lighter into the plastic bin at the airport security checkpoint, a Transportation Security Administration screener had words for him.

Chilean versus American airports

Chilean versus American airports 02/01/2005 09:38 PM

Flying from Santiago to Miami one is faced with some rather rude shocks.  The Santiago airport is gorgeous, full of glass and light.  Rents are obviously fairly low because every nook and cranny of the airport is crammed with the kinds of shops that you'd find in any Chilean business district.  There is a full-service pharmacy.  There is a communications center where you can close yourself into a private phone booth, make calls, and pay for them at the end.  There are Internet cafes.  Miami, like most U.S. airports, seems only to be able to support the $5 slice of pizza store, the $5 magazine store, and the $5 coffee store.  If you want to make a phone call you do it from a noisy public space.  If you want to relax you pay $500/year to one of the airline clubs.  If you want Internet access, you're screwed.  Most of the spaces in Miami are bleak empty wastelands of concrete and/or glass.  In Santiago you feel like you're in a shopping mall where occasionally a couple of hundred people leave en masse.

Oh yes... my feeble attempts to purchase Internet access for my laptop in MIA and LGA have led me to the conclusion that the U.S. will not, in the foreseeable future, have an 802.11 network with useful coverage.  So I've decided to buy an $80/month unlimited data PC card from Verizon or Sprint.  Anyone have experience with these services?  My tendency is to want to go with Verizon because (a) they have the best coverage for voice calls, and (b) I think in the D.C. area where my family lives, they offer some kind of near-Broadband speeds on this service.

British airports hit by computer crash

British airports hit by computer crash 06/03/2004 05:06 AM
Radio Netherlands Jun 3 2004 9:25AM GMT

IBM helps eliminate queues at airports

IBM helps eliminate queues at airports 12/11/2003 11:52 PM
Sunday Times South Africa Dec 11 2003 10:41PM ET

Airports to Fingerprint Foreign Visitors

Airports to Fingerprint Foreign Visitors 01/05/2004 02:29 AM
Reuters via Wired News Jan 5 2004 0:48AM ET

Iris scanners fitted in airports

Iris scanners fitted in airports 06/15/2004 08:25 AM
Foreign nationals will be able to volunteer to use eye-scanning cameras at five UK airports within a year, says the Home Office.

Free Wi-Fi is Trend at Small Airports

Free Wi-Fi is Trend at Small Airports 03/06/2004 01:49 AM
USA Today reports on a bunch of small airports that offer Wi-Fi for free: Some of them, including Blue Grass Airport in Lexington, Ky., offer it for free because the airport is close enough to other airports that it competes with them for business. When airfares are comparable at any of the nearby airports, some customers may choose to fly from Blue Grass because they can use the free Wi-Fi as they wait for their flights to take off, says an airport spokesperson. The network is pretty extensive too, covering enough area outside of the terminals that fliers can use the network while sitting on the plane on the tarmac during long delays. I was surprised to see how many other small airports offer free Wi-Fi. Some of the airports cater to business people from nearby big companies, such as the Tri-Cities Regional Airport in Blountville, Tenn., which attracts workers from Eastman Chemical Company. The article notes Pittsburgh as one of the only big airports in the country with free Wi-Fi for all. Currently there are so many different models for Wi-Fi at airports that it will be interesting to see which work out in the future. We see airlines, third parties, and airports hosting the service, which comes for free or a fee....

Security at on-alert airports can take 5
hours to clear

Security at on-alert airports can take 5
hours to clear 01/08/2004 07:48 PM
Andrew Leonard has an op-ed on Salon today describing the amazingly baroque TSA-inspired "security" procedures in Mexico City last weekend, which created a multiple-day delay for thousands of fliers.

I like to travel. But I'm not looking forward to a future in which I need to get to the airport five hours ahead of departure to be sure I won't miss a flight, one in which I'm patted down from head to toe several times every time I try to board a plane, one in which I am constantly explaining every item in my luggage and every twist in my itinerary to hostile agents. I've had the chance to think about airline security a great deal over the past few days, and I'll tell you this: After being asked by one security guard to drink from a water bottle in my carry-on to prove that it wasn't acid or poison; after being interrogated by a U.S. customs agent who was suspicious at the number of books I had in my luggage; after the long lines, the hand inspections, the X-ray screenings, the near riots by enraged passengers, the uncertainty and the anxiety -- after all that, traveling to a foreign land, or even just across the state of California, doesn't seem quite so exotic or alluring anymore.

Link (Thanks, Kevin!)

Airlines, airports battle over Wi-Fi
spectrum oversight

Airlines, airports battle over Wi-Fi
spectrum oversight 06/18/2004 05:39 PM
Airlines and airports are battling over regulatory oversight of unlicensed Wi-Fi spectrum, with airports requiring airlines to forgo their own wireless nets for fee-based airport services.

Technology, Security Meeting at Airports
(Reuters)

Technology, Security Meeting at Airports
(Reuters) 05/09/2004 10:19 AM
Reuters - The technology to screen for security risks without the knots that bedevil and delay today's business travel is already on line at some of the world's airports, but its widespread use hinges on cost and other issues.

Access and modify the list of
'remembered' AirPorts

Access and modify the list of
'remembered' AirPorts 04/13/2005 11:13 AM
I finally figured out where Apple stores the list of access points which it asked you if you wanted to remember or not. This was recently a problem for me because, when I was showing someone with a new PowerBook stuff, he ch...

Untrained people on horses to look for
terrorists near airports

Untrained people on horses to look for
terrorists near airports 07/26/2004 12:33 PM
Bruce Schneier of Counterpane Security wrote a short piece for The Register about the Houston Airport's ridiculous plan to recruit amateurs to ride around on their horses and patroll the grounds near the airport.

Want to help fight terrorism? Want to be able to stop and detain suspicious characters? Or do you just want to ride your horse on ten miles of trails normally closed to the public? Then you might want to join the George Bush Intercontinental (IAH) Airport Rangers program. That's right. Just fill out a form and undergo a background check, and you too can become a front-line fighter as Houston's airport tries to keep our nation safe and secure. No experience necessary. You don't even have to be a US citizen.

Sounds like a great opportunity for unemployed idiots who drool at the prospect of harassing people but failed the test to become a cop. Link

Tighter screening in US airports
starting Monday

Tighter screening in US airports
starting Monday 09/17/2004 09:33 PM

USA Today

Fliers face tighter screening for explosives

WASHINGTON — Starting Monday, the government will intensify airport screening...

More discretion. TSA screeners will be given greater authority to refer passengers for extra scrutiny if clothing looks bulky, misshapen or otherwise suspicious. Some passengers also will receive expanded pat-downs when screeners consider it warranted. Currently, they concentrate mostly on arms and legs. Now, they'll be able to pat other areas if they look suspicious. TSA spokeswoman Yolanda Clark would not elaborate, citing security.

...Critics say additional pat-downs could make some people, especially young women, feel uncomfortable.

Just in time for my trip to the US next week...

via Cory @ Boing Boing

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Tsunami Aid Pours in But Airports Prove
Bottlenecks

Tsunami Aid Pours in But Airports Prove
Bottlenecks 01/01/2005 04:42 AM
Reuters via Wired News Jan 1 2005 7:35AM GMT

Iris scans at UK airports, says Home
Office

Iris scans at UK airports, says Home
Office 06/15/2004 10:00 AM
Only trusted travellers need apply

Airports and Tenants Contend over
Spectrum Rights

Airports and Tenants Contend over
Spectrum Rights 06/18/2004 01:10 PM
The Industrial Telecommunications Association (ITA) wants the FCC to declare that airports can't restrict airlines use of unlicensed spectrum in airports: Airports want to coordinate spectrum, but their networks might not be optimized for the airlines' needs, and the airlines claim that they can build their own networks more cheaply and quickly, the Computerworld article says. The ITA and members like United Airlines say airports are motivated entirely by revenue, not coordination or utility. A couple of interesting tidbits emerge about airline deals, too, that might explain why AT&T Wireless charges $70 per month for unlimited access to their Wi-Fi network, including $10 per day for airport usage: they pay Denver International Airport $250,000 per month or $3 million per year for the right to operate the network. Nokia built the network and paid DIA fees until they could exit, and turn off the business to an operator. AT&T Wireless would need 300,000 sessions a year just to gross enough money in Denver to pay those costs; I can't imagine who signed off on that decision. It's AT&T Wireless's sole airport, although both Seattle-Tacoma International Airport and AT&T Wireless said months ago that they would be taking over Seatac's Wi-Fi network from Wayport--we haven't heard anything since. Boston negotiated a much smaller fee for Logan: a minimum of $200,000 in the first year and $300,000 by the fifth. The article says that the deal calls for 20 percent of gross revenue if it exceeds these amounts and that the company estimates that could eventually be $1 million per year. Maybe. That would require $5,000,000 in gross revenue. Based on the sea change in the market, that might be impossible to achieve. Logan would need to either get as many as five million sessions a year at a buck a pop to gross that much, or find, say, 50 resellers willing to pay a flat rate of, say, about $8,000 a month each to gain access to Logan as part of a reseller network if they followed the Wayport model. Both seem implausible....

Airports Hit Brick Wall in Regulating
Unlicensed Radio

Airports Hit Brick Wall in Regulating
Unlicensed Radio 06/25/2004 12:01 PM
The FCC says landlords, associations can't regulate Part 15 use: The FCC's Office of Engineering and Technology says that the function of regulating and coordinating frequency use is reserved to the FCC itself. It's a clear refutation of mall owners, airports, and condominium associations to limit use of Wi-Fi and other wireless technologies. (Document as Word, PDF, Text.) The report says in part, the FCC has exclusive authority to resolve matters involving radio frequency interference [RFI] when unlicensed devices are being used, regardless of venue. We also affirm that the rights that consumers have under our rules to install and operate customer antennas one meter or less in size apply to the operation of unlicensed equipment, such as Wi-Fi access points - just as they do to the use of equipment in connection with fixed wireless services licensed by the FCC. And it's hard to put their conclusion any better than they themselves: The rules prohibit homeowner associations, landlords, state and local governments, or any other third parties from placing restrictions that impair a customer antenna user's ability to install, maintain, or use such customer antennas transmitting and/or receiving commercial nonbroadcast communications signals when the antenna is located "on property within the exclusive use or control" of the user where the user has a "direct or indirect ownership or leasehold interest in the property, except under certain exceptions for safety and historic preservation." Dewayne Hendricks notes in his post of this order that airlines only recourse now is to appeal this decision to the entire Commission. In other words, airlines, start your (Wi-Fi) engines. [link via Dewayne Hendricks]...

UK Airports will get iris-recognition
immigration screening within a year

UK Airports will get iris-recognition
immigration screening within a year 06/16/2004 03:42 AM
PublicTechnology.net Jun 16 2004 7:52AM GMT

Air traffic computer crash brings
airports to standstill

Air traffic computer crash brings
airports to standstill 06/03/2004 06:50 PM
Living Abroad Magazine Jun 3 2004 10:15PM GMT

Tsunami Aid Pours in But Airports Prove
Bottlenecks (Reuters)

Tsunami Aid Pours in But Airports Prove
Bottlenecks (Reuters) 01/01/2005 02:20 AM
Reuters - A multinational force of aid workers, military aircraft and ships descended on Asia as global tsunami relief pledges topped $1.36 billion, but the hundreds of tons of aid created a logistical nightmare.

Delta to Invest in Radio Tags for
Luggage at Airports

Delta to Invest in Radio Tags for
Luggage at Airports 07/01/2004 12:34 AM
Delta Air Lines plans to use disposable radio tags to track all luggage it handles at domestic airports.

Airports to test bomb-sensing devices
(USATODAY.com)

Airports to test bomb-sensing devices
(USATODAY.com) 06/17/2004 06:49 AM
USATODAY.com - The Transportation Security Administration today will unveil the first new bomb-detection device in airports since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks - machines that blow air at passengers and "sniff" for explosives.
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