#Starlink Wi-Fi is rolling out on United flights, offering solid speeds and low latency. I would have preferred a non-Musk alternative, but better, always-on inflight internet is welcome. Still, part of me misses being truly offline at 35,000 feet. #UnitedAirlines #InflightWiFi #WorkLifeBalance
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In-Flight Wi-Fi: Essential or Extra? 💻 More airlines are offering it, but quality and price vary wildly. Do you pay for connectivity at 35,000 feet, or enjoy the digital detox? #InFlightWiFi #Travel #flights #Airlines
Weekly output: American Airlines WiFi, Archer Aviation eVTOL air taxis, Google display-ads antitrust violations
During one of the busier travel weeks of the year (happy Easter, everyone), it only seems right for two of my posts for clients to involve commercial aviation. Airlines also figure in my own schedule over the coming week, because Saturday night I depart for Brazil to moderate three panels at Web Summit Rio.
In addition to the posts below, I wrote one Thursday for Patreon readers about how my attitude about taking press trips–meaning, trips subsidized by the company or organization behind the event in question–has changed over the past 10 years.
4/15/2025: Free Inflight Wi-Fi (Finally) Coming to American Airlines, PCMag
AA started this week with the least-competitive WiFi pricing of any U.S. carrier, and now it has one of the most-asterisked announcements of free WiFi among its competitors.
4/17/2025: Archer Aviation, United Airlines Tease Electric Air Taxi Hops to NYC Airports, PCMag
Spending half an hour on a Teams call with Archer’s chief commercial officer Nikhil Goel yielded details left out of the the company’s press release–as well as a questionable assurance that the Trump administration’s devotion to innovation would speed the Federal Aviation Administration’s certification of its Midnight electric vertical-take-off-and-landing aircraft.
4/17/2025: Google Guilty of ‘Willfully Anticompetitive Acts’ in Display-Ads Business, Court Finds, PCMag
A little over two years after I filed a post from a deli in Wallops Island, Va., about the Justice Department’s lawsuit alleging multiple antitrust violations by Google in its display-ads business, I covered Judge Leonie Brinkema holding for the plaintiffs on three of their five claims in a ruling that could lead to the forced divestiture of major parts of Google’s display-ads business. Since that business has done my own industry few favors in recent years, I don’t feel too sorry for Google about that possibility.
#AA #airTaxi #AmericanAirlines #AmericanAirlinesWiFi #ArcherAviation #bannerAds #displayAds #eVTOL #EWR #GoogleAntitrust #GoogleDisplayAds #inflightWiFi #LGA #NYC #NYCAirports #UnitedAirlines
Weekly output: public domain expands, net neutrality dies again, 2025 tech resolutions, United Airlines + Starlink
LAS VEGAS–I’m once again here for CES because I long ago lost the ability to imagine the second week of January without this giant tech show in it. I’m here through Thursday night, after which I can enjoy a few quiet days at home pivot to covering the ShmooCon hacker conference in D.C., the last year it will take place.
12/31/2024: Hitchcock and Hemingway: All the Good Stuff Coming to the Public Domain in 2025, PCMag
I love how writing about the notable creative works entering the public domain on Jan. 1 has become a year-end tradition for me.
1/2/2025: Court Ruling Kills Net-Neutrality Rules That Were Already Doomed, PCMag
I saw the news of this on my way to SFO at the end of holiday family time, then wrote it in the air on our way back to Dulles.
1/3/2025: My 2025 tech resolutions: ditching X, avoiding AI, and more, Fast Company
One of my editors at Fast Co. asked if I could do another version of the tech to-do list that I wrote for them at the end of 2023, and I said I’d be delighted to do that. The toughest task for me will probably be replacing a fossil-fueled appliance at home–but if climate-change deniers in Congress succeed in repealing Inflation Reduction Act tax credits after this year, I will have a strong motivation to complete that purchase.
1/5/2025: Starlink Wi-Fi Takes Off on United Airlines Flights This Spring, PCMag
United’s PR folks gave me an advance copy of this announcement, allowing me to file it Friday afternoon so that PCMag could schedule it to publish it Sunday morning.
#ces #copyright #FCC #inflightWiFi #LasVegas #netNeutrality #NewYearSResolutions #publicDomain #Starlink #techResolutions #UA #UnitedAirlines #Vegas
United Airlines is introducing SpaceX’s Starlink satellite internet across its entire fleet #UnitedAirlines #Starlink #SpaceX #InflightWiFi #WiFi #MileagePlus #Aviation #Connectivity #Internet #Travel
#AirIndia becomes country’s first airline to introduce #inflightWiFi on #domesticflights
https://www.msn.com/en-in/travel/news/air-india-becomes-country-s-first-airline-to-introduce-in-flight-wi-fi-on-domestic-flights-here-s-how-passengers-can-access-it/ar-AA1wNgwm?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=c8c0c92f63ab401b8e3d56b8ad4448a2&ei=8
I asked Perplexity to write me a post.
Write a LinkedIn post in the style of a LinkedIn Lunatic about how I'm amazed at using WiFi in the air and excited to be on the way to Mumbai for the Snowflake conference.
🚀✨ Just touched the clouds and wow, I’m amazed by in-flight WiFi! 🌐✈️ Who would've thought we could surf the web 30,000 feet up?
On my way to Mumbai for the Snowflake conference, feeling excited to connect with brilliant minds and explore data-driven innovations! 💡📊
Let’s embrace this tech marvel and make the most of our airborne productivity! Can’t wait to share insights and learn from industry leaders. Let’s go, Snowflake! 🥳 #InFlightWiFi #SnowflakeConference #Innovation
This week involved four airports, three flights, two hotels and an alarm set on my phone for 1 a.m. Thursday–and the lost sleep was more than justified by being able to witness the sight and sound of a Falcon 9 launch from about six miles away.
9/10/2024: Demo Day 2024, Vention
I flew to Chicago Tuesday morning to lead the panel discussion with Vention founder and CEO Etienne Lacroix and Nvidia vice present and robotics and edge computing general manager Deepu Talla that closed out this robotics firm’s programming at the IMTS convention there. I got the gig because somebody at Vention thought I’d done a good enough job quizzing Lacroix on a panel I moderated at the Collision conference in Toronto three months ago.
9/12/2024: AST SpaceMobile’s first five BlueBird satellites reach orbit, Light Reading
I flew from Chicago to Orlando the evening before–making this yet another year in which I’ve flown on Sept. 11–and checked into my hotel around 11 p.m. Two AST publicists picked me up at 1:30 a.m. to run me over to another Space Coast hotel from which a bus took me and dozens of AST shareholders to the Kennedy Space Center, from where another bus took us to KSC’s Apollo/Saturn V center to watch the launch. I filed this story at 11:30 a.m. after returning to my room and passing out for an hour or so. Being able to start the piece with a Cape Canaveral dateline put a smile on my face.
9/13/2024: United Airlines Will Add Free Starlink Wi-Fi Across Entire Fleet, PCMag
Many other journalists covered United’s massive deal with Starlink, but I will bet that most of them have not spent as much time with UA as I have.
#ASTSpaceMobile #BlueBird #Chicago #Falcon9 #IMTS #inflightWiFi #Nvidia #Starlink #UA #UnitedAirlines #Vention
Bumpety flight. Jet has taken a rather curious route to Melbourne. I assume some wind issues are about. #QF449 #inflightwifi
Patience test: Troubleshooting over SSH connections with 700+ ms latency. #InFlightWiFi #NetEng
When you’re just thinking “I should pee before we land” and the captain turns on the seatbelt sign and directs the crew to prepare for approach. #inflightwifi
I’m in #FirstClass today (thanks to 123,750 #BritishAirways #FrequentFlyerMiles and £318) and #InflightWifi is complimentary for first class passengers — always a nice touch for #airlines to offer as part of their #PaxEx. #thatjohnOnJL
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