If you were hoping to relax and cruise through the airport during your next flight, think again. The TSA will now require any electronics larger than a cell phone to be separately screened.
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After a near-miss between a drone and a passenger airliner over a UK city last year, flights were delayed and diverted yesterday at London's Gatwick airport, due to a drone reported near the runway.
The TSA (Transport Security Administration) is letting volunteers in two airports use a biometric security check system. This might in the future mean a faster security check process through airports.
Along with the very likely introduction of new luggage screening procedures by the TSA for domestic flights, Homeland Security may ban all laptops in the cabin of any flight into or out of the USA.
The Australian government has set its plans in motion for facial, iris and fingerprint recognition to replace manual checking of passports, at major airports and sea ports around the country.
It appears that Apple might be abandoning its networking business. Although the company has not made an official announcement, it has been reported that company has abandoned development.
40 scared passengers refused to fly on a Qantas airliner that had been temporarily grounded, after a Wi-Fi hotspot was discovered with the name 'Mobile Detonation Device', sparking a security scare.
A French airport using the now-defunct Windows 3.1 was brought to its knees when a malfunction of the ancient operating system caused all flights to be grounded.
Soon, when traveling through Edinburgh airport, you may be met by a customer service rep wearing Google Glass. The airport is set to start trialing the use of Glass to assist passengers.
The newly-opened Terminal 2 at London Heathrow Airport includes 'smart toilets', using sensors connected to a cloud-based platform that includes 'Internet of Things' technology developed by Intel.
Samsung announced yesterday that it would be completely "rebranding Heathrow Terminal 5 as 'Terminal Samsung Galaxy S5'" - but an airport spokesperson says Samsung is merely renting existing ad space.
The sky's the limit for Samsung's marketing machine, as the company will next week completely rebrand London Heathrow's fifth terminal as 'Terminal Samsung Galaxy S5' to promote its newest flagship.
Apple hasn't had a lot of luck with their Maps software. With a less than "fair" launch and then a ton of direction glitches (some life threatening), the latest directs drivers onto an active runway!
Apple is expected to implement IEEE 802.11ac, the upcoming WiFi standard that can achieve data throughput three times faster than 802.11n, in AirPort base stations and other hardware this year.
Apple has released a new free application called AirPort Utility on the App Store. It allows iOS 5 users to configure their Apple based network hardware directly from their iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad.
Why is it so difficult for airports to put power outlets near the gates? It seems that each gate has at most one power outlet and it’s always located in a very inconvenient place –...
After a tweet from Charlene Li informed travellers worldwide that the iPad didn't have to be put in a separate bin at airport security checkpoints because it lacked a hard drive and CPU, many have...
Budget airline, Easyjet, experienced issues across much of Europe today as systems crashed causing travel chaos for thousands of passengers stranded in various airports. London's Gatwick airport was a scene of total chaos as Easyjet staff...
Wouldn't it be great to have more time to saunter through duty-free shops? The question is would you pay a yearly subscription to skip airport security lines. If there were such a service, many would...
Apple Incorporated has released a fix on its website for its wireless networking hub (AirPort Extreme Base Station with 802.11n) that addresses a flaw that permitted incoming connections through the Wi-Fi hub, and another security...
On the Apple's tech support forum, customers reported that the new AirPort Extreme recognizes the Wii and the PS3 but not the Xbox 360 unless all security, including password protection, is disabled on the AirPort...
Amid all the hoopla surrounding the iPhone and Apple TV introduction, Apple quietly introduced Jan. 9 an updated AirPort Extreme wireless networking base station that supports the IEEE 802.11n draft specification. Although Apple CEO Steve...
Apple will stop selling Airport Base Stations, eMacs and iSight cameras in Europe after June 30, reports claim. According to reports, the company contacted channel partners this morning to confirm plans to withdraw these...
Norwegian programmer Jon Lech Johansen has decrypted and published the key that Apple's wireless hi-fi bridge, Airport Express, uses to protect music streams. He's also released the source code to a small Windows command-line tool...
If you ever wanted an Apple AirPort Extreme Base Station (802.11g), or an Airport Extreme Card (802.11g) now is the time to buy. Apples AirPort Extreme Base Station is $50 less than its original...
The Apple Airport software has been updated today to version 3.1 and sports some new functionality: New AirPort Extreme Base Station features: Compliant with the final IEEE 802.11g specification ...
Ripped from: PcWorld - News Early next year security personnel in major U.S. airports will be equipped with wearable computers, introduced at Comdex here this week, so they can instantly identify suspicious...
