Items tagged with 'flight'
Samsung Mythic And Flight Phones Soar Over To AT&T
It seems like the Droid has been receiving all the attention of late, but for those looking for something a bit simpler, AT&T has two new options from Samsung Mobile. Up first, the Mythic is delivering a 3.3" full touch screen display, Samsung's own TouchWiz internet, one-touch access to features including AT&T... Read More
Virgin America Launches "Gogo" In-Flight Wi-Fi
On Saturday Virgin America launched its Gogo in-flight wi-fi service, showing it off by filing the press release from 35,000 feet, and with the first ever "air-to-ground" video stream to YouTube Live, YouTube's first official real-world user event. The "fleet" will consist of one wi-fi enabled plane to start, with Virgin... Read More
In-flight Entertainment: Coffee, Tea, or iPod
The frequent flyers over at Flight are reporting that iPod connectivity to airlines' in-flight entertainment (IFE) systems are starting to take off: "Singapore Airlines last week started supplying iPod and iPhone connectivity on the first of five newly reconfigured all-business Airbus A340-500s. United Airlines is expected... Read More
NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT - G92 Takes Flight
In the GPU business, like any other semiconductor technology, die size, cost and performance-per-watt are the name of the game. Performance-per-watt from a design and manufacturing perspective is important on multiple levels. Certainly, power efficient products are important to the consumer but also, generally... Read More
Alaska Airlines Announces WiFi In-Flight Plan
Alaska Airlines today announced plans to become the first U.S. airline to offer in-flight wi-fi. While this would keep people like us from becoming bored on a flight, it does have its downside.Seattle-based Alaska plans to install Westlake Village, Calif.-based Row 44's broadband service on one Boeing 737 jet next spring.Row... Read More
Hidden flight sim application in Google Earth
Some Easter Egg! It's not going to make you want to quit Microsoft Flight Simulator, but there's a hidden flight simulator inside Google Earth. You can even use a joystick with it.Though it’s nowhere close in features to the competition, Marco Gallotta found a hidden flight simulator feature inside the newest version of... Read More
Flight Simulator X - Triple Monitor Lovin'
Hey folks, JeffB dropping in for a spell to share a little triple monitor gaming with ya! This is a bit of a personal triumph getting this set up to work with Vista and NVIDIA's current drivers. Two 20" monitors are driven by a GeForce 8800GTX and the third by a GeForce 7600GT. It's hard to... Read More
Saitek Pro Flight Rudder Pedals
Saitek has been been a solid player in online flight sim gaming peripherals since 1997 with the intoduction of the X36F HOTAS system. This system consisted of a programmable stick with separate throttle/rudder combo which gave over 250 different programmable options. I bought this setup in 1998 and have... Read More
Sling Media TV takes flight
Sling Media delivered on its promise Thursday to market software hooks that extend the range of home TVs to mobile devices, in a move that could end up testing the limits of cellular networks.The San Mateo, California-based startup announced the availability of a beta version of SlingPlayer Mobile, a software product that... Read More
Intel i925X and i915 Chipsets - Alderwood, Grantsdale, PCI Express and DDR2 Take Flight
Good Morning All, Intel lets fly with their new i925X and i915 chipsets today, along with a couple of LGA775 based P4's to go with them. PCI Express, DDR2 and a host of other new goodies are on the bench at HotHardware.com. Have a look at all this new good stuff, right here!... Read More
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