Continental rehires some of the pilots furloughed in 2008 – CNN
Continental Airlines is recalling some of the pilots it furloughed several years ago, as the company ramps up international flights and replaces retiring older pilots. Continental (CAL, Fortune 500) spokeswoman Julie King said the airline is recalling 15 of the 147 pilots it furloughed in 2008. In addition, it is putting more than 100 pilots [...]
HP Set to Launch webOS Extravaganza With Tablets, Printers, and More | Daily Tech
Palm Inc. has struggled in recent years and has been passed, first by Research in Motion, next by Microsoft, then by Apple, and most recently by Google in terms of smartphone market share. The company finally received some good news on April 28 when the world’s top PC maker, Hewlett-Packard Co., announced that it would be scooping [...]
Continental-United merger will likely make Newark airport a busier travel hub | – NJ.com
Image via Wikipedia Newark Liberty International Airport, which Continental Airlines helped to transform into a bustling international hub, is expected to grow busier — creating the eventual ripple effects of job and economic growth — when the company completes its merger with United Airlines. Jeffrey Smisek, who will become chief executive of the new company, [...]
Twitter’s Roadmap Includes Real-Time Streams | News & Opinion | PCMag.com
Twitter’s roadmap will include locations, user streams, and annotations, Ryan Sarver, head of Twitter’s platform development, said Thursday at the Chirp conference here. The company did not announce a formal roadmap, choosing instead to disclose a few additions that the company will be building in the next few months. One of the first was the [...]
Video: German company launches it’s own ‘iPad’ called “WePad” | ITN News
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Airline Deals Too Good to Be True – WSJ.com
It is a sport among many hard-core travelers: trying to spot ridiculously low fares that airlines post by mistake—a $5,000 ticket offered for, say, $500. Airlines, once they realize their mistake, often try to wriggle out of honoring the deal—even though they typically charge heavy fees to customers who want to make changes after a [...]
Facebook Will Allow Users to Share Location – Bits Blog – NYTimes.com
Starting next month, the more than 400 million Facebook users could begin seeing a new kind of status update flow through their news feed: the current locations of their friends. Facebook plans to take the wraps off a new location-based feature in late April at f8, the company’s yearly developer conference, according to several people [...]
Microsoft To Unveil Zune Phone? — InformationWeek
Microsoft is planning to introduce a Windows Mobile-based phone in the coming weeks in order to keep up with rivals Apple and Google, according to a financial analyst. Jefferies stock picker Katherine Egbert said the company would likely unveil the device next month at the Mobile World Congress in San Francisco. Alternately, the software maker [...]
Skype Goes 720p HD, Big Screen Calls Coming to LG and Panasonic HDTVs – PC World
Skype users can now make high-definition video calls as long as they have an HD webcam and sufficient bandwidth and processing power, Skype said on Tuesday. The company also announced that HDTVs will ship later this year with its Internet calling software embedded on them. The HD capability is included in the beta version of [...]
