CHARLOTTE (AP) — Airline travelers in the Carolinas should expect longer waits as security is upgraded at Charlotte-Douglas International Airport.
Multiple media outlets report that officials plan to close a security checkpoint Monday through the end of April to install full-body scanners.
Charlotte is one of a new wave of airports getting the equipment as the country beefs up effort to find hidden explosives after an attempted Christmas Day bombing.
http://www.usatoday.com/travel/flights/2010-04-05-charlotte-airport-security_N.htm
A major earthquake of 7.2 magnitude which struck at forty seconds after 3:40 p.m. PDT on Easter Sunday, April 4, 2010 was centered 39 miles (63 kilometers) SSE of Calexico, CA in the upper Baja California peninsula of Mexico, near the town of Guadalupe Victoria. There are reports of extensive damage to buildings in Mexicali and elsewhere within the northern Baja California peninsula of Mexico. Tremors from the quake lasted about forty seconds, rattling windows, knocking objects from shelves, and causing water main breaks and building cracks in San Diego, 140 miles to the north and west.
http://www.examiner.com/x-18134-AirlinesAirport-Examiner~y2010m4d5-Earthquake-closes-San-Diego-Airport
St. Paul, Minn. — Travelers unfamiliar with the two airline terminals at Minneapolis St. Paul airport will soon have new signs to direct them.
Metropolitan Airports Commission spokesman Patrick Hogan says workers tonight begin putting up the new signs on roadways leading to the airport. Hogan says many air travelers are confused because MSP unlike most airports in the country has two terminals on two different roads.
http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2010/04/05/new-signs/
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, April 5 (Reuters) - Jazz Air LP (JAZ_u.TO) will start flying to sun destinations for tour operator Thomas Cook Canada (TCG.L) later this year, it said on Monday, after signing a deal that it expects will add C$100 million ($100 million) a year to its revenues.
The deal sees Jazz spreading its wings significantly for the first time beyond Air Canada (ACa.TO) (ACb.TO), which until now has been responsible for 99 percent of the regional carrier's revenue.
http://www.reuters.com/article/idCAN0517629920100405?rpc=44
(AP) — United Airlines is offering to bring its flight attendants up to the pay scale of Continental Airlines workers in exchange for changes in work rules.
A letter, from a United executive to the head of the flight attendant union, suggests that some senior flight attendants would get raises of more than 10 percent if they were brought up to the pay of those at Continental.
http://www.chicagobusiness.com/cgi-bin/news.pl?id=37694&ba=1
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano announced modifications to US aviation security measures Friday, drawing mixed reactions from security experts who applauded the modifications but questioned their implementation.Napolitano announced that 14 nations whose citizens faced automatic secondary screening under strict rules put into place after the Christmas Day bombing attempt of US-bound Northwest Airlines Flight 253 would instead fall under an enhanced security regime that includes multiple measures to spot terrorists and criminals without a reliance on 100 percent secondary screening.
http://www.hstoday.us/content/view/12771/128/
Two of Denver’s three major airlines plan to add more WiFi capability to planes using Denver International Airport soon, which will enable flyers to catch up with the national trend of carriers offering wireless Internet service to passengers.
Read more: United, Southwest to add more WiFi availability - Denver Business Journal:
SunPass is good for more than just paying tolls on Florida's Turnpike. Now you can use it to pay for parking at Palm Beach International Airport.
The airport is the first in South Florida to accept SunPass as payment for parking. Plans are in the works to bring it to airports in Fort Lauderdale and Miami.
SunPass users will pay the same parking rate as cash and credit card customers. But they must have an account that's automatically replenished with a credit or debit card. That's to ensure customers have enough money in their accounts to pay for parking.
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/palm-beach/fl-sunpass-airport-parking-20100405,0,3594.story
"Stanford Law School has released a wiki called WhatApp?, where users can rate all manner of web apps, browsers, mobile platforms, mobile apps, and social network apps on their security, privacy, and openness. Currently, the wiki 'lists some 200+ apps, but most of them have not been reviewed yet. So they need a lot of help,' writes blogger Dan Tynan. 'To review an app you select it from the list, then fill out a 9-question form rating its privacy, security, and openness, ranging from 5 (very private, secure, and open) to 1 (a steaming pile of vulnerabilities and violations).'"
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/04/05/1819231/Naming-and-Shaming-Toxic-Web-Apps
"Concepts outlined in Microsoft's internal 'Midori' OS documents are materializing in .NET, according to an SD Times report. Midori is a new operating system project that is designed for distributed concurrency. Microsoft has assigned some of its all-star programmers to the project, while recruiting others. It is also working on other projects to replace Windows that make the OS act more like a hypervisor."
http://developers.slashdot.org/story/10/04/05/199232/Midori-Concepts-Materialize-In-NET
"The Blu-ray Disc Association announced upcoming specifications for high-capacity write-once and rewritable discs. The BDA proposed two new formats, BDXL, the name given to new 100GB and 128GB discs; and IH-BD, a so-called 'Intra-Hybrid' disc that will incorporate both read-only and rewritable layers. Specifications for both disc types will be published during the upcoming months. Both formats will be incompatible with existing hardware; however, new players designed to take advantage of the new formats will be able to play back existing Blu-ray discs, which are available in both 25 and 50GB capacity points."
http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/10/04/05/2010236/Blu-ray-Proposes-Incompatible-BD-XL-and-IH-BD-Formats
"Ars Technica is reporting that Microsoft has announced on its Windows Server blog the end of its support for Itanium. 'Windows Server 2008 R2, SQL Server 2008 R2, and Visual Studio 2010 will represent the last versions to support Intel's Itanium architecture.' Does this mean the end of Itanium? Will it be missed, or was it destined to be another DEC Alpha waiting for its last sunset?"
http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/10/04/05/2034233/Microsoft-Announces-End-of-the-Line-For-Itanium-Support
"The CEO of Unity discusses 'gamification' — applying game design and technology to real-world applications beyond 'gamespace.' The military is using game design theory for some training programs — not just 'the 3-D, realistic, virtual world experiences, but also the built-in use of frustration and reward.' (And similar training packages were adopted by Unilever, the giant corporation which owns Ben & Jerry's ice cream.) Medical professionals have licensed a 'Google Earth for the human body,' and game design is also being used to build tax software. ('It has to be the most boring field, but I mean that's the point. You can make it slightly challenging and give people little reasons to play these tax tools — beyond, you know, not going to prison!') While some companies conduct team-building exercises using Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter, others use game technology to standardize their in-house employee training programs. The interviewer adds, 'I know I'd feel better about job training if it felt more like killing zombies.'"
http://games.slashdot.org/story/10/04/05/2110207/Game-CEO-Sees-Gamification-of-Work-and-Military
"Canonical is bringing its Ubuntu One cloud service (which we discussed last month) to handheld devices with a new mobile contact synchronization feature that is powered by Funambol. Canonical's Ubuntu One application for the iPhone is now available from the iTunes Music Store. Android and other mobile operating systems will be supported with Funambol's standard client application. The mobile sync feature is currently in the beta testing stage but will be generally available to Ubuntu One subscribers when Ubuntu 10.04 is released later this month. Canonical says that it is boosting its Ubuntu One server infrastructure in order to support what it anticipates will be record loads."
http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/10/04/05/233206/Ubuntu-One-Gets-iPhone-App-For-Contact-Sync
"A paper (PDF) to be presented later this month at the IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium in Atlanta describes a new approach to memory management that allows software applications to run up to 20% faster on multicore processors. Yan Solihin, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at NCSU and co-author of the paper, says that using the technique is just a matter of linking to a library in a program that makes heavy use of memory allocation. The technique could be especially valuable for programs that are difficult to parallelize, such as word processors and Web browsers."
http://developers.slashdot.org/story/10/04/05/2342205/Memory-Management-Technique-Speeds-Apps-By-20
"NASA space shuttle Discovery rocketed into orbit this morning and, despite some communications problems, is slated to dock with the International Space Station in the wee hours of Wednesday, April 7. After this mission NASA has only three shuttles scheduled to launch, though speculation persists that the program may be extended. NetworkWorld has a roundup of what the last Shuttle missions consist of and what happens next."
http://science.slashdot.org/story/10/04/06/0016207/Afters-Discoverys-Launch-Whats-Left-For-the-Shuttle
Dozens of delightful islands with white-sand beaches, swaying palms and a colourful culture.. .the Caribbean is a dream destination.
But as every island has its own flavour and special things to see and do, why spend two weeks at one destination when you could visit up to 10 in one holiday?
That's the beauty of a P&O Cruises Caribbean two-week itinerary: P&O Cruises has developed tailormade fortnights so you never visit the same place twice.
http://www.world-tourism-news.eu/products/holiday-to-an-odyssey-of-idyllic-islands/
From Oman's opulent palaces to shimmering deserts, this undiscovered corner of Arabia is a tantalising mix of ancient and modern discovers the renowned British journalist Charles Garside, as he heads for the oasis, so says a report that appeared in a recent edition of the British daily tabloid newspaper The Daily Mail. Commenting on Oman’s growing popularity as a unique tourist destination, Usama Bin Karim Al Haremi of Oman Air’s Corporate Communications and Media said that the National Carrier has been tasked with boosting tourism in Oman, adding that the ministry of Tourism and Oman Air, continue to promote the Sultanate as a high quality destination aimed primarily at responsible tourists.
http://www.world-tourism-news.eu/products/unique-tourist-destination-ancient-meets-modern-in-oman-/
The Swedish tourism industry will continue to grow next year, according to a new prognosis released by branch organization RTS.
Despite that business trips to the country have plummeted since the financial crisis began two years ago, leisure travelers more than made up for the loss in profits in 2009.
http://www.world-tourism-news.eu/news/swedish-tourism-to-keep-on-growing/
Mexican tourism revenue may decline for a second year as violent clashes between drug gangs and a weak U.S. job market threaten to spoil its spring break party.
Cancun and Acapulco hotels are seeing a smaller-than-normal influx of college-age revelers this month after recent reports of bloodshed, tour operators there said. Acapulco’s tourism marketing agency predicts the number of spring breakers will drop 30 percent this year to 17,500, said Piquis Rochin, director of international promotions for the organization.
http://www.world-tourism-news.eu/news/mexicos-tourism-revenue-continues-to-fall/
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