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Years ago, when Yahoo chat rooms were cool and Netscape was still the browser of choice, there was a computer commercial extolling the virtues of a certain brand. The commercial showed two college students writing their final papers before graduation. The student with the brand name computer finished his paper, saved it, and went to bed. The student using the competitor’s computer powerful Motorola CP040 battery finished his paper, tried to save, and started screaming as the computer went into the ever-terrifying Blue Screen of Death, deleting his entire paper. Cut to ten years later: the brand name student is working a business job with a corner window office, while the student with the competitor’s computer is washing said windows for a living.

Despite being aired over a decade ago, the spot brings up one very good point: just how dependent are we on technology today?

Think about it. A few years ago, to get directions to a given place, you’d look them up in the phone book and either call them on your land line and ask for directions from a given landmark or attempt to find them in the city map printed in the front of said phone book. Today, even looking them up on Mapquest or going to the company’s website to find directions is considered archaic: cutting-edge technology demands a smartphone or a GPS unit to give you step-by-step directions as you drive.

For another example people my age work with nearly every day, take writing papers. No matter how quickly you write, going at it longhand takes forever and leaves your hand cramped and hurting afterwards. Typewriters speed the process along nicely but are plagued by stuck keys, not to mention that a single misspelled word or missed comma requires retyping an entire page and makes the editing process long and arduous. Computers have revolutionized the very idea of writing: misspelled words are easily fixed or even corrected automatically, entire paragraphs and pages can be rearranged with a single click, and a writer can finish editing their work in its entirety before the first copy is printed.

Technology has made everything faster and easier. Listening to a device’s instructions instead of having to look at written directions while driving is safer for the driver and everyone around them. Word processing is quicker, easier, and more easily sharable than handwritten copies of a document. There is, however, one very ominous question looming over this commonplace dependence on digital devices: what if that technology fails?

If we’re to believe the commercial, then the short answer is to make a career out of washing windows. Those of us who would rather not hang hundreds of feet above the pavement every day or simply have marketable skills in other areas do what most everyone does when faced with a technological crisis in this modern day and age: head over to the local Best Buy or Apple store, talk to a member of the Geek Squad or a Genius, pay through the nose to get our essential little device working again, and attempt to stay calm during the process. It’s a discouraging little waltz; it’s expensive; it’s the reason people buy new electronics in the first place. After all, new products are guaranteed perfect, and refurbished electronics cheap Dell xps m1530 battery obviously had problems before and will have problems again, right?

Wrong on both accounts, actually. Not everything that comes out of the factory is perfect. For example, take the most common problem with the Xbox 360, commonly referred to as the Red Ring or the Red Ring of Death. A console experiencing this error will have red lights around the power button light up, indicating that the console needs service for one of a multitude of problems, ranging from failures in video output to audio errors to the console simply not working anymore.

A September 2009 survey conducted by Seattlepi showed the failure rate for Xbox 360s to be at 54%. That’s right: over half these consoles have keeled over and died because of errors inherent in the unit itself. Errors like this pretty much shatter the notion that every bit of machinery that rolls off the factory shelves is perfect.

Refurbished products, on the other hand, have an awful reputation. People regard them with the view that a product, once broken, cannot be repaired to any level of satisfaction. This is not entirely true: the quality of the repairs depends on the skill of the repairman. If the repairman has no idea what they’re doing, does an awful job, or fails to test the product before selling it, then odds are the product probably can’t be trusted. Give that same device to a skilled repairman who does a thorough job and tests his work before sending it out, however, and that device will work just like if not better than new. It all depends on the person doing the repairs and how well they handle the technology.

We’ve seen that our society is technologically dependent, and we’ve all known the high quality Dell inspiron 1750 battery heartbreak and horror when the technology we depend on in our everyday lives fails. How, we ask, do we keep it from failing? Aside from the common sense tenets of technology care – keep it dry, perform regular maintenance, and don’t drop it – the best way to prevent tech fail is to shop smart. Go to the people you trust, and if you’d like to save a few bucks and get the best quality for what you do spend, go to the people you trust to refurbish the technology you want. Find someone who knows what they’re doing, who consistently performs well, and who tests their refurbished tech to make sure it performs well. Guarantees and quick shipping don’t hurt, either.

Don’t know anybody like that? Well, I have a recommendation or two.

Have any tech horror stories? How about the time your dog chewed your TV cord, or your neighbor’s kid dropped your iPhone in the toilet? What about great tech service stories? Let’s hear them!

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Warning for geeks, techies and others - I am taking some minor technical liberties here to describe the use of IP addresses in a way my mom would understand and hopefully stay interested.  You probably know the technical details already, so skip to the end.  I spent several hours last night at my father-in-law’s home, uninstalling dozens of programs that were bogging down his computer.  They weren’t nefarious programs and were all listed in add/remove via the control panel. But he has never clicked on start, other then to shut down, and does not know how to uninstall a Acer Aspire 5520,Aspire 5920,AS07B41,AS07B31 battery  program.  He is widely considered one of the most brilliant lawyers in the country, but didn’t grow up or spend most of his career using a computer.  Most people don’t know what you do, so I beg your indulgence while I try to communicate these details in an accessible manner!)

IP  or Internet Protocol addresses have become one of the hotly debated areas in the privacy arena.   I thought it might be useful to describe what I understand about the ways AOL, Platform A (our advertising business) and many others use this information.

I like to think of an IP address as an address on the internet.  This might be a fixed address that is assigned to a particular Web site so that consumers can request the content of the site.  For example, when a consumer uses their Web browser to request  or PrivacyGourmet.com, your computer queries a table that holds the IP addresses assigned to these names and then actually sends a request to that IP address.  In order for the Web site to send anything back to your computer, your computer needs an address on the internet.  Your Internet Service Provider (ISP) provides you with that address so that you can “connect” to the internet.

When a Web site gets a request for content from a consumer, it “sees” the IP address of the computer making the request.  In addition to sending back the homepage requested to the IP addresses, it can use the IP address for a number of purposes including geo-targeting and analysis, fraud, audit and law enforcement support.

Geo-targeting:  Some companies have mapped, often to zip code level, the geographic areas where IP addresses have been allocated.  Before it sends back content (or an ad) to a certain IP address, a Web site can quickly look up  a Toshiba PA3534U-1BRS,PA3533U-1BAS battery table that indicates that this IP address belongs to a block used by an ISP in Southern Florida.  It could decide to display to the consumer an ad for a convertible rather than one for a snow-blower.  Or it might simply log the IP and later prepare a report that showed that 30% or visitors to the site came from the South, 10% came from outside the U.S. and so on.  Geo-targeting isn’t completely accurate, for example many dial-up AOL users from around the country may appear to be assigned Dulles, Virginia IP addresses because of how we route customers through our proxy servers.  But it is certainly useful enough that companies find the information useful.

It is also common knowledge that certain blocks of IP addresses belong to certain businesses, organisations or universities.  As a result a Web site or ad server can “know” that certain IP addresses belong to IBM or to MIT and target an ad to presumed tech company employees or university students and faculty.

Fraud: There are criminals who control thousands of computers belonging to unwitting victims who may have downloaded malware.  These crooks often try to profit by generating “fake” clicks on ads in order to get paid.  Security experts at search engines or ad networks can analyze the logs of IP addresses over time to detect patterns and  eliminate the false results.

Audit: An advertiser may want proof that the banners it has paid to have placed on a Web site are actually displayed the number of times promised. Auditors rely on retention of log files that include IP addresses to verify ad delivery.

Law Enforcement:  If the FBI believes that child porn has been posted at a Web site or that a criminal used the site to find information used in the crime, it might issue a legal demand for the IP address the Web site has logged.  The FBI will then go to the ISP that IP belongs to and issue a legal demand for the name of the ISPs subscriber who was assigned that IP at a certain time.  Indeed this happens regularly and criminals are tracked down in this manner.

This last point creates a fair amount of the privacy concerns raised by some.  Unless you register, most of the other information a Web site logs when you visit (a “cookie”, information about your computer and web browser) is very unlikely to ever be linked to your name.  Your IP address is unlikely to ever be linked to your name by a Web site - but an ISP may have a record of which of its users it assigned a certain IP address and thus the government or litigants could possible force the creation of a link to your Web activity. So although most U.S. Web companies firmly maintain that IP addresses are “anonymous” because the data is anonymous to the Web site, the IP address is certainly qualitatively different in that there are circumstances where someone could force an “identification” to take place.  And although the courts haven’t always agreed, many of the data protection commissioners in Europe have repeatedly advised that in their opinion IP addresses are personal information.

Cognizant of this concern, and as we noted in our comments to the Federal Trade Commission last week, my team has kicked off an effort to examine options for limiting how long AOL retains IP addresses in certain Compaq Pavilion DV2000,Pavilion DV6000,HSTNN-Q21C Battery circumstances.  I don’t think that all of the rules or committments made about personal data are 100% technically or practically relevant to IP addresses, but I do think that is important to recognise the greater sensitivity of this data element and to take steps to examine were more limited retention is feasible.

One additional point to clarify is about the use of IP addresses by Web sites or ad networks to track users over time - to create a profile or for other purposes.  I am not aware of anyone in the industry doing this, because IP addresses are just not reliable enough to use in this manner for state management.  Despite the fact that many users are on broadband and may use the same IP address for longer than dial-up users, a recent study

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IPhone 4S owners bemoaning their feeble battery life may have some hope, at least, for the future: Northwestern University engineers have developed a cellphone battery that charges in 15 minutes and stays charged for more than a week.

They’ve created an electrode for lithium-ion batteries that allows the batteries to hold a charge up to 10 times greater than current technology and charge 10 times faster.

“Even after 150 charges, which would be one year or more of operation, the battery is still five times more effective than lithium-ion batteries on the market today,” says lead author Harold H Kung.

As well as better batteries for cellphones and iPods, the technology could lead to more efficient, smaller batteries for electric cars, says the team. The technology could hit the market in the next three to five years.

Lithium-ion batteries charge through a chemical reaction in which lithium ions are sent between two ends of the battery, the anode and the cathode. As energy in the battery is used, the lithium ions travel from the anode, through the electrolyte, and to the cathode; as the battery is recharged, they travel in the reverse direction.

With current technology, the performance of a lithium-ion battery is limited. How long a battery can maintain its chargeis limited by how many lithium ions can be packed into the anode or cathode. Meanwhile,  the speed at which it recharges is limited by the speed at which the lithium ions can make their way from the electrolyte into the anode.

In current rechargeable batteries, the anode - made of layers of carbon-based graphene sheets - can only accommodate one lithium atom for every six carbon atoms. Replacing the carbon with silicon means much more lithium can be accommodated. However, silicon expands and contracts dramatically in the charging process, causing fragmentation and losing its charge capacity rapidly.

Kung’s research team has been able to stabilize the silicon in order to maintain maximum charge capacity, by sandwiching clusters of silicon between the graphene sheets. This allows for a greater number of lithium atoms in the electrode while utilizing the flexibility of graphene sheets to accommodate the volume changes of silicon during use.

“Now we almost have the best of both worlds,” Kung said. “We have much higher energy density because of the silicon, and the sandwiching reduces the capacity loss caused by the silicon expanding and contracting. Even if the silicon clusters break up, the silicon won’t be lost.”

The team also used a chemical oxidation process to create miniscule holes in the graphene sheets to give the lithium ions a ’shortcut’ into the anode. This reduces the time it takes the battery to recharge by up to 10 times.

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Last week we’ve focused on three new apps that help complete (or even inspire) daily tasks.

Any.DO is a social to-do list that’s easier to use than any other we’ve seen. Hailo makes hailing a cab a matter of checking in on an app, and photo game Onefeat inspires creative feats throughout the day.

Hailo: A Network For Taxi Drivers And Passengers

Quick Pitch: Hailo is a network of licensed London taxi drivers that customers can hail using an app.

Genius Idea: Making it easier for customers and taxis to find each other

Mashable’s Take: Hailing a cab can be a competitive sport. Taxi drivers have no way of knowing for sure where there are customers who need a ride, and customers have no way of telling them.

Hailo aims to help the two parties find each other. Customers can request a ride with a free app. After their license is verified, drivers who register can use their own version of the app to accept those requests. So far the service has signed up about 2,300 of 23,000 London Black Cabs.

At the end of a ride booked with Hailo, the cab driver enters the meter fee into his or her app and the customer’s credit card is charged. Hailo takes a 10% cut for making the arrangement. Founder and CEO Jay Bregman says drivers have already charged £1 million in fares through the system.

Bregman hopes to expand soon into other cities. He says the company has already met with the Taxi & Limousine Commission in New York City and is actively preparing to launch in the United States. There he will have competition from Taxi Magic, which charges the user — not the driver — to pay for the ride with a credit card.

Success for a taxi app is somewhat of a chicken-and-egg problem. On one hand, users won’t want to use an app to hail a cab if there aren’t enough drivers registered to respond. On the other, drivers probably won’t find much use for an app that doesn’t send them customers.

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Any.DO: A Social To-Do List

Quick Pitch: Any.DO is a simple social to-do list.

Genius Idea: A to-do list that responds to voice commands and gestures

Mashable’s Take: If app stores were physical places, you’d have a hard time throwing a rock in them without hitting a to-do list app.

The team behind Any.DO has already proven it can stand out in this crowded space. Their first to-do list product, an app for Android called Taskos, registered more than 1.3 million users. Those users are now invited to migrate to Any.DO.

Any.DO helps users create, organize and share tasks with friends, even if those friends don’t use the app. It responds to gesture-based commands such as shaking the phone to remove completed tasks, and it can add tasks through voice recognition. Most of the app’s functionality — sharing, reminders, folders and priorities — is similar to other to-do list apps. What makes it stand out is its simple, intuitive interface.

Eric Schmidt’s Innovation Endeavors recently led a $1 Million investment in Any.Do, but free apps can be hard to monetize. An Any.DO spokesperson said the business has “a few things in the pipeline” that could generate revenue, but it’s not ready to talk about them.

Onefeat: A Photo Task Game

Quick Pitch: Onefeat is an iPhone app that turns photo missions into a social game.

Genius Idea: Photo sharing apps have taken off in the last two years, but many of them look the same. Take a photo. Add a filter. Post it to your networks.

Paris-based Onefeat has added a new twist to photo sharing with its iPhone and Android apps, turning photo sharing into a game. Users earn points that can unlock trophies by completing “feats” such as “Get to the end of the world” or “Take a self portrait” that are proposed by other users.

Flipping through feats is as entertaining as completing one yourself, and it’s not surprising that users from Brazil, France and the U.S. are playing regularly.

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Google Acquires Katango, Joining the Google+ Team

Back in September we broke the news that Google was in talks to acquire Katango, a small Kleiner Perkins-backed startup that launched this past summer. Today, they’ve made it official: Katango just announced that it’s been acquired by Google, and that it’ll be joining the Google+ team. We’re also hearing that Google isn’t only acquiring Katango for their talent — it’s interested in their technology as well.

Katango is a logical fit for Google, though their initial product was focused primarily on Facebook.

The startup first debuted an iPhone app in July, setting out to made it easier to selectively share with various groups of friends on Facebook. Facebook’s List feature has long allowed users to share certain pieces of content with different friends, but it did little to automate the process of actually breaking your friends out into different groups. That’s where Katango came in: you’d connect the app with your Facebook social graph, and it would analyze your friends to automatically sort them into different buckets.

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It was powerful, but the competitive landscape changed significantly shortly after Katango’s launch. In September, Facebook unveiled Smart Lists, which also help automate the process of separating friends into lists (it offers some pre-built lists, like coworkers and people who live nearby, and its suggestion feature makes it easy to build custom lists as well). In other words, Facebook is solving the problem itself.

But Google+ has a feature that’s analogous to Facebook’s Friend Lists: Circles. And while Google has promoted Circles heavily, both in its marketing and on Google+ itself, it doesn’t do much in the way of automatically helping users sort their friends into Circles — there’s still a lot of legwork involved. Which Katango seems perfectly suited to help with.

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Alienware M18x Preview– Lighter, Cheaper, has 3D Built-in and Optimus Works

The Alienware systems are specially engineered pieces of hardware that are destined to bring you to a world of surreal gaming. Or at least that is what the company hopes to have done. Whether it delivers is what this article is about.

The Alienware M18x is the latest massive mobile gaming rig that Dell has released. Available with it is an option to go for AMD Radeon 6990M or an NVIDIA solution by way of a GeForce GTX 580M. And they come in twos — CrossFire or SLI setups.

Another piece of awesomeness is that Alienware M18x systems feature 3 pre-defined BIOS settings for the overclock. For those of you who are more demanding, they also offer a custom tuning option wherein you have the chance to make your Alienware perform perfectly or to become a really expensive heater.

Specs

You can get the spec list from alienware, but we’ll cover the gems here.

The M18x comes with the i7-2920XM – a power house that starts at 2.7GHz and turbos through to 3.7GHz on a single core. On quadcore mode you would get 3.4GHz. This monster is backed up by 16GB DDR3-1600 spread in 4 SODIMMS. The HDD, whatever you get, I’d recommend upgrading to a hybrid or an SSD – the difference is humongous! The stock systems come with Seagate Momentus 750GB HDD in RAID 0. A Momentus XT would have been so much more pleasurable.

By now you would have realized that this unit is capable of plaing all modern games. There’s nothing that can make a 580M in SLI sweat.

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The Alienware rigs have this cool capability to turn the discrete GPU card ON or OFF by using muxes for the AMD Radeon’s, but when you are riding a NVIDIA you should get to use the much more superior Optimus technology. This would let the M18x do trivial tasks without gobbling up the battery. But Optimus is not available for the M18x yet so you’ll have to make do with those switchable muxes. Mind you, they take over 15 secs to switch – powering down te discrete card, unloading drivers and loading Intel drivers – it’s time consuming.

Considering all of this, I would conclude that if you want a laptop that can handle any games that come your way with the highest of settings, go for the M18x. Else if you are looking forward to also use your laptop in classes or for other non-gaming ‘work’, you would be far better of with a M17x-R3. It’s lighter, cheaper, has 3D built-in and Optimus works.

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Few Tips Before You Say Goodbye to Your Old Laptop?

There are many tech treats that were on holiday wish lists recently, and if you now have that fancy new Macbook Air or tablet in your hands, you may now be faced with a dilemma: what to do with your old laptop?

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The pace of technology can make it seem like your old machine is obsolete, but sometimes donating it is the perfect solution; non-profits can use a working laptop by either selling it or using it for daily operations. No matter if you’re recycling your laptop along with your old phone or donating it, check out a few tips before you say goodbye to it — and let me know what you plan on doing with your new one, if you were so lucky — after the break.

• Do your research. Make sure you are donating or recycling with a reputable operation. Check out recycles.org in order to be anonymously matched with a charity looking for your specific type of laptop, or search online for a recycling point near you.
• Erase it! This is the most important thing you can do with old laptops or computers that you are giving away. Run a program that wipes your hard drive clean before you pack it up, or try out some of these tips for securely deleting your info.
• Do some clean up. If you are donating to a charity, take a few minutes to wipe down your laptop’s monitor and keys. The extra time you take to clean off all those fingerprints and crumbs will be much appreciated!

Were you lucky enough to receive a shiny new notebook for the holidays? What did you get, and what will you be doing with your old one?

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Google debuts Gmail’s new simplified design

After an extended preview, Google has started to push the new, simplified Gmail design to users, finally bringing the entire Google Apps suite under one GUI umbrella.

After offering users an early preview back in July, Google is finally ready to start switching users over to the totally new Gmail interface. With this update, the entire Google Apps suite has received its promised redesign, giving everything fromGoogle Reader to Google Calendar a unified look that ties it all together visually with the Google+ social platform.

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For the most part, the final version of the new Gmail interface looks a lot like that preview, with a focus on simplification and flexibility. But here’s the laundry list of what’s different, as per the Official Google Blog entry:

• A new, streamlined conversation view that displays Google profile pictures for your contacts - making an e-mail thread look a little more like an instant messaging conversation.
• Elastic density, which means that the spacing between items on the screen will automatically adjust based on the screen size and device you’re viewing it on. There’s also a manual density setting, for those so inclined.
• New HD Gmail themes, with background imagery taken from iStockphoto. And more than a few old themes have been updated to match the new, higher resolution.
• A better navigation sidebar (as seen to the right), with resizable labels and chat bars - and the ability to hide the chat bar altogether.
• Advanced search, including the ability to make a Gmail filter on the fly from a search bar dropdown.

Over the next several days, waves of users will be prompted to switch to the new Gmail design with a link in the lower-right corner of their inbox. Eventually, it’s going to become the default.

Personally, I’ve been loving the Gmail preview design for months now, and I’m excited to get the final version. But there’s always a blowback when a service as popular as this makes a change, and I’m curious as to what form the inevitable criticisms will take.

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IT security : Poor Password Security Poses Big IT Problem

A fundamental lack of IT security awareness – particularly in the area of password control and privileged logins – is potentially paving the way for more waves of data breaches, new research reveals. Conducted by the Lieberman Software Corporation, the Password 2011 survey paints a vivid picture of password chaos among IT professionals and a general apathy about password security among their senior management.

More than a quarter of the 300 surveyed IT professionals said they were aware of an IT staff member abusing privileged login information to illicitly access sensitive information.

At the same time, nearly half of the IT professionals surveyed said they work at companies that are not changing their privileged passwords within 90 days – a violation of most major regulatory compliance mandates and one of the key reasons hackers are still able to compromise the security of large organizations.

“This survey shows that despite the huge number of frequent data breaches, over the past 12 months senior management in many organizations have not yet grasped the fundamentals of IT security,” Philip Lieberman, President and CEO of Lieberman Software, said in a prepared release. “Password anarchy among the IT staff at major organizations is mirrored by password apathy at the top of the management hierarchy, where senior management seem almost criminally lax in the enforcement of IT security policies, to the detriment of their organizations.”

The survey also found that the sheer volume of passwords needed by IT professionals could be a source of the problem.

Nearly half of the IT professionals surveyed said they had 10 or more passwords to remember for work, while 42 percent said IT staff in their organizations are sharing passwords or access to systems and applications.

“Management will have to pay far more attention to their basic security practices or be forced to apologize to their shareholders and customers for major data losses and subsequent damage to brand loyalty,” Lieberman said. “The simple, unpalatable truth is that senior management generally is not policing their IT security departments enough to avoid further massive data breaches.”

Morgan Slain, CEO of SplashData, a developer of password management solutions for smartphones and personal computers, said there are a number of password safety measures businesses can establish to ensure the safety of critical data.

One step, according to Slain, is to use secure passwordsof eight characters or more. He said one way to create secure passwords that also can be remembered is to use phrases with short words and spaces in between, like “eat cake at 8!” or “car park city?”

“They are easier for people to remember and quite secure,” Slain told ITTechNewsDaily.

In addition, Slain suggests never using the same username/password combination on multiple sites or applications.  Since many websites don’t adequately protect that information, Slain said hackers are able to obtain the data from the servers and try the same username and password combinations on more valuable sites and services like email, online banks or PayPal.

“There is a cascading risk that you incur,” Slain said.

For those with numerous passwords, Slain advises organizing them on some sort of secure password management application, a digital safe of sorts, rather than writing them all on a slip of paper.

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Qantas begins iPad trials for Wi-Fi movie streaming by batteryfast.co.uk

Qantas will begin trials of Apple’s iPad for in-flight entertainment this month, using wi-fi to stream content to the tablets from a central server on the aircraft.

The six-week trial will run from the end of October to early December, although it will be limited to a single Boeing 767-300.

The aircraft used for the trial will be scheduled across a variety of routes, from Sydney-Melbourne to transcontinental coast-to-coast services (if you’re a real aviation geek who wants to be sure you’re on that plane, the aircraft rego one to watch for is VH-OGH).

“You’ll find this 767 on our triangle route of Sydney-Melbourne-Brisbane but customers will get the most benefit on the long east-west routes” Alison Webster, Qantas Executive Manager for Customer Experience, told Australian Business Traveller.

All passengers on that aircraft will find an iPad 2 sitting in their seat-back pocket, while those in business class will also get a flexible stand which can be used on the fold-down meal tray. The plane will carry one tablet for each of the aircraft’s 254 seats, with several spares on hand.

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Webster says the iPads will be “locked down”, bypassing Apple’s normal home screen and booting straight into the Q Streaming app – “so if anyone decides they want to ‘borrow’ one it won’t have any capability off the aircraft.”

A special ‘Q Streaming’ app loaded onto the iPad will act as the front-end for on demand content beamed from one of five wireless access points. This app and the technology behind it is based on Lufthansa Systems’ BoardConnect technology, variations of which are also being used by Virgin America.

Towards the end of the initial six week trial Qantas will allow passengers to view the streaming content on their own iPad by making the Q Streaming app available as a free download from the iTunes App Store.

Qantas says the iPads have the capability to be preloaded to the same level of content as offered on their flagship Airbus A380, although the trial will be restricted to streaming content from a smaller selection.

In a novel and welcome twist, Q Streaming will eventually allows passengers with their own tablet to download video to watch within a 24 hour period of leaving the aircraft if the programme was cut short by the plane landing.

The system also has the capability to work with Android tablets, notebooks and even smartphones, although the trial is an iPad-only program.

“This pilot programme is about putting the wi-fi streaming capability through its paces” Webster says. “The system is able to support a variety of devices and the ultimate goal is for customers to bring their own devices if they choose” Webster says. “We’ll evaluate the trial at the end of this year and then make some strategic decisions (for next year).”

If successful, the system will be rolled out on ten Boeing 767-300s, with the airline then looking at installing seats with in-built iPad brackets.

Qantas is also keeping an open mind on introducing it to Airbus A330s, but is quick to point out that the airline remains committed to conventional in-flight entertainment systems with a screen in the seat or the armrest.

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