Speaking on Monday at WSJD Live, the Wall Street Journal’s technology conference in Laguna Beach, California, Apple’s Chief Executive Tim Cook predicted there would be “massive change” in the auto industry in the coming years. Cook did not comment on numerous rumors and reports that Apple is working on developing its own electric car.
However, Cook repeated the two words “massive change” More »
Apple Inc is accelerating its efforts to build an electric car. The iPhone maker has designated building an Apple-branded car as a “committed project” and has set a target shipping date for 2019.
After the success of the in-car system called CarPlay, Apple now reportedly has ambitions to build and sell its own electric automobile.
People familiar with the matter claim that the electric car project code-named Titan currently has 600 people working on the prototype. It was also alleged that the leaders of the project have been given the go ahead to triple the size of their team to 1,800 people. More »
Amazon has started legal action against more than 1,000 people who the online retail giant suspects are posting fake reviews on its website.
The online retailer said in the lawsuit, filed in the US on Friday, that its brand reputation was being tarnished by “false, misleading and inauthentic” reviews of books, restaurants or holidays.
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Keeping calm and alert while driving could become easier with the new health- monitoring car seat, called Active Wellness. According to the developer Faurecia, it is the world’s first car seat that actively monitors a driver’s physical and mental status and offers on-the-move therapy.
The Active Wellness seat has been developed over five years by Faurecia, one of the world’s largest automotive equipment suppliers. The Faurecia team has worked in collaboration with the Spine Research Institute at Ohio State University in the United States in order to develop tools to measure comfort in real-time and ways to help alleviate discomfort. They also teamed up with NASA engineers to More »
American Airlines computer systems were restored and the ground stop has been lifted Thursday after earlier “technical issues” at several airports across the country, the airline said.
American Airlines flights to and from Chicago, Dallas and Miami have been temporarily grounded because of an apparent glitch in one of the carrier’s computer systems and that prevented passengers from checking in. The computer systems were fixed after less than two hours. More »
Jam-packed airport traffic and crowded airports can be a giant time-suck for busy travelers. What if you don’t need an airport and you can land and take off from your own front yard? Get ready for a light jet that will transport you door-to-door: VTOL- a vertical take-off and landing plane. The aircraft could pick up passengers at their homes or hotels, and fly them more than 1,000 miles. It can hover like a helicopter and fly fast and high like a jet.
It’s not totally new as military planes have been taking off and landing vertically for decades. Now, a new era of hovering, commercial airplanes is dawning, according to Jeffrey Pino, vice chairman at Denver-based XTI Aircraft. He says ‘VTOL, true point-to-point travel, has got to be inevitable.’ More »
Uzbekistan national carrier announced on its website Friday that the airline will be weighing its passengers along with their luggage before they step on the plane.
The passengers will be asked to proceed through a special ‘weighing machine’ placed at the departure gate zone in order to determine each traveler’s average weight along with their hand baggage. The procedure is part of ‘flight safety’ requirements introduced by the International Air Transport Association, the carrier said.
It appears the procedure is strictly for research purposes. The company said that the individual passengers’ weights would not be disclosed and ‘full confidentiality of results is guaranteed. Instead, the weighing machine will only categorize passengers by sex and into adult and child groups.
All aircrafts have total weight limits which cannot be exceeded for safety reasons. However, Uzbekistan Airways has not listed a weight limit for any individual passenger yet. The company doesn’t give any details about what action, if any, would be taken if the total weight of the passengers and their luggage exceeded the limit.
Uzbekistan national carrier is not the first to put passengers on the scale before boarding. In 2013, Samoa Air became the world’s first airline to charge passengers different fares based on their weight. During the procedure, the travelers are weighed their luggage at the departure gate and pay a fixed price per pound for their seat. Officials from the company claim that this helps manage the onboard weight effectively and enable to improve the flight cost-effectiveness.
Now if you could please step on the scale, we need to check your weight.
InterPlex Destination Services enhances its online marketing presence by launching its newly renovated New York and Jacksonville Websites
New York, FL, August 2, 2015
InterPlex Destination Services, a premier transportation service provider, has recently launched its totally renovated websites new-york.interplex.net and jacksonville.interplex.net. InterPlex Destination Services aims to provide its clients, business and leisure travelers with full information on its transportation services, as well as quick and easier access to all of them.
InterPlex Destination Services intends to cover the whole process of planning a business trip or a family vacation by presenting the full range of company’s transportation services including quality airport transportation, car service, limo, shuttles and bus charters with a vast range of luxury vehicles to meet all of travelers’ needs. In addition, the company provides assistance with booking and helps you choose among the best hotels, restaurants, attractions and a variety of additional destination services for meetings and events. Website visitors can make reservations via email using the online reservations system. More »
In the nearest future people will be taking the train from China to the US.
China is considering building its first intelligent high-speed train. It will be produced by CSR Qingdao Sifang Co Ltd in Qingdao which is a coastal city in east China. The high-speed railway line will pass through the Siberia and Bering Strait; it will run across the Pacific Ocean by approximately 200 km undersea tunnel to Alaska, and then south through Canada to the US. The entire journey will take two days and the train will travel at an average of 350 kmh. The line will be 13,000 km long, almost 3,000 km more than the Trans-Siberian Railway. More »
