All hail the laggard! With pretty much every other US-based legacy carrier already on board, we were beginning to wonder if American Airlines even got the memo that in-flight WiFi was in serious demand. At long last, the company has made clear that it plans to equip more than 300 MD-80 and Boeing 737-800 aircraft used primarily in the United States with high-speed WiFi capability (over the next two years). If you’ll recall, American announced early on that it was game for trialing the tech, but until today, it had yet to make a commitment large enough to make you consider signing up for its credit card and bankrolling those frequent flyer miles. We’re expecting more details to emerge soon, but feel free to start pestering its agents with the whos, whats, wheres and whens.

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American bringing in-flight WiFi to over 300 planes originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 31 Mar 2009 14:26:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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A look at the advantages of utilising IPTV technology in Hotel and Hospitality environments. There are many benefits, some not immediately obvious.

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IPTV Technology in Hotels and Hospitality

What do you get when you mash up yesterday’s Intel Xeon 5500 and NVIDIA Quadro FX announcements with a bruiser BMW DesignWorksUSA case? The HP Z800 workstation, that’s what — and while it’s clearly more machine than most of us need, it’s almost just as certainly the machine we deserve. Right? Right. Inside the super-configurable case beats two quadcore Nehalem Xeon 5400 CPUs that appear as 16 cores to Windows, and optional SLI Multi-OS-capable NVIDIA graphics cards that allow you to use SLI under virtualization. Pricing starts at a seemingly-reasonable $1,999 and cruises north of $14K — anyone want to lend us some cash?

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HP Z800 workstation supports SLI Multi-OS, newest Xeon processors originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 31 Mar 2009 14:04:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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We’re not exactly enthused at all the granularity makes up Samsung’s wide assortment of digital compacts, but it’s not like they’re the only offenders in the industry. In the high end they’ve got the HZ15W and TL320 — we’ve seen the TL320 and is marvelous analog dials in the wild before, but the HZ15W is a new one on us. Overall the camera is a bit bulky for this segment, and we’d have a hard time sticking it into a pants or jacket pocket without discomfort. That said, the camera is flush with functionality like HDMI out, 720p video recording and a wide view lens. The second look at the TL320 reminded us how completely in love we are its analog dials, though unfortunately the pre-production model we were looking at was having trouble with its OLED screen. The rest of the line, including the SL820, SL620 and SL202, was hanging out for the photo op, but there wasn’t much that stood out.

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Samsung HZ15W and hands-on, with friends originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 31 Mar 2009 13:43:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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PC World – The Fedora Project released a beta of the next version of its free Linux OS with new security, desktop and developer features that provide a glimpse of the direction Red Hat could take with its enterprise Linux distribution.

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Fedora 11 Beta Posted With New Security, Developer Features
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