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SpaceX’s Starlink is in talks with ‘several’ airlines for in-flight Wi-Fi

The Verge

The team behind SpaceX’s growing satellite internet network Starlink is in talks with “several” airlines to beam internet to their airplanes, the project’s vice president said during a conference panel on Wednesday. Like those consumer antennas, the aviation hardware will be designed and built by SpaceX, he said. Timeline TBD.

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Fraport goes all in on private 5G network

CIO Business Intelligence

There were a multitude of reasons for Fraport AG, the operating company of Germany’s largest airport in Frankfurt, to build one of the largest European private 5G campus networks: automation, autonomous driving, localization of devices, and processing data in real time.

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Why Aren’t Our Networks Staying Up?

The Accidental Successful CIO

Clearly, despite the importance of information technology, the networks that we’re designing and building today don’t work anywhere this reliably. Network Outages Seem To Be A Part Of Life. Back in the day, when the phone network was “the network”, an outage was a big deal.

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Averting turbulence in the air

CIO Business Intelligence

The diversification of payment methods and gradual increase in the volume of online transactions have cast a spotlight on the need for payment security compliance within the airline industry. Understanding the business of the airline industry As previously mentioned, the revenue streams are becoming diversified in the airline sector.

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Google won’t give old Pixels the best 5G, even though it admits it could

The Verge

Google says it doesn’t plan to update the software for the Pixel 4a 5G , 5 , or 5a to support C-band 5G in the US, despite also saying that the phones have the necessary hardware and that the functionality will work in other countries. The company loved pointing this out during the 5G debacle with the FAA, carriers, and airlines.).

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Microsoft’s accessibility chief on Bing’s chatbot, the disability divide, and more

GeekWire

Participants are interested in technology, policy, partnerships and networking, she said, “and how to build their own programs.” ” Microsoft will be sharing news of its accessibility work in hardware and software. Whether it’s electric vehicle access or airline transportation, [travel] has been very hard.

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Tech Moves: Adriane Brown joins KKR board; AI2 adds HR exec; Ossia and LevelTen hire CFOs; more

GeekWire

This is Brown’s second notable board appointment this year after she joined the American Airlines board in March. F5 Networks Photo). — F5 Networks named Equinix Chief Information Security Officer and Microsoft alum Michael Montoya to its board of directors. Read the story. Michael Montoya. (F5

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