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Gogo sells commercial in-flight internet business to bankrupt satellite provider

The Verge

Gogo, the in-flight internet provider, has found a buyer for its commercial airline business. The FCC is clearing out the C-band (4-8 GHz) to make space for 5G customers, and Intelsat is participating in the program that could net the company nearly $5 billion by selling airwave licenses it currently owns.

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8 big IT failures of 2023

CIO Business Intelligence

Both United Airlines and Hawaiian Airlines saw service outages in 2023 resulting from wonky software upgrades, and Southwest ended the previous year with a Christmas travel meltdown blamed on outdated systems. Probably the worst IT airline disaster of 2023 came on the government side, however.

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Flight delayed? Blame a spaceship.

Vox

You can typically blame an airline flight delay on a handful of usual suspects, like bad weather, mechanical issues, and traffic on the tarmac. Typically, there’s about two weeks of advance notice before each launch, and during that time, air traffic controllers can develop alternative arrangements for the flights scheduled on that day.

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Building Identity Systems on the Sovrin Network

Phil Windley

Perhaps the most familiar example of a metasystem is the internet. The internet is not so much a communications system as it is a system for building communication systems that all interoperate. For example, I may have a credential representing my drivers license and one representing my employee ID. Drivers license.

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Välkommen till Stockholm – An AWS Region is coming to the Nordics

All Things Distributed

We have also added teams in the Nordics to help customers of all sizes as they move to AWS, including account managers, solutions architects, business developers, partner managers, professional services consultants, technology evangelists, start-up community developers, and more.

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10 emerging innovations that could redefine IT

CIO Business Intelligence

The main constituency: Any developer who will happily trade a bit of precision for a big savings in electricity. Physical security of digital systems When most IT people think of computer security, they think of clever hackers who infiltrate their systems through the internet.

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Generative Identity

Phil Windley

This article describes the implementation self-sovereign identity through protocol-mediated credential exchange on the self-sovereign internet, examines its properties, and argues for it generative nature from those properties. The self-sovereign internet is labeled "Layer Two" in this figure. Verifiable Credentials.