Amtrak-Take Note

As the economy sours and as we all become more ecological or “green” one of the trends that we’re seeing on both coasts here in the USA is the increase in ridership of trains, both commuter and long haul. Growing up on the east coast I regularly took the Metroliner between Philadelphia and New York … Read more

Push That Banner, Make a Call

On the surface this is taking a page out of client iFByPhone’s playbook, a company out of the Netherlands has created PushCall. With their latest offering, PushCall makes it passible to click on a banner ad and make a call. What makes so much of this possible is the same kind of Adobe Flash audio … Read more

Free is Dead

Om’s post about Jaxtr pretty much provides the kind of perspective I have on free services. The crowd that wants free never pays. With free not being a business model any longer, and with ad supported models about to feel very choked using current ad practices based on the impression model, not the relevance model, … Read more

Drinking My Own Kool Aid

Yesterday my flight from Paris to Newark was delayed by almost three hours. That meant the connection to my American Airlines flight to Dallas would never be made, so at Orly I logged on to their hotspot using Boingo and looked at options. There weren’t any. So I went to AA.com and changed my flight … Read more

Drinking My Own Kool Aid

Yesterday my flight from Paris to Newark was delayed by almost three hours. That meant the connection to my American Airlines flight to Dallas would never be made, so at Orly I logged on to their hotspot using Boingo and looked at options. There weren’t any. So I went to AA.com and changed my flight … Read more

Delta Adds In Flight Internet Service

Delta has become the third USA air carrier to launch in flight internet service with service on their five shuttle routes, with the other two being American Airlines and Virgin America. I’ve yet to personally experience the service, but I’ll be on an American Airlines flight tonight and have all my toys to try out … Read more