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What we’re reading: Starbucks to offer free wi-fi, Cathay, AF to offer airbags, Ryanair onset journalist
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June 16th, 2010Uncategorized
Starbucks to offer free WLAN at all United States locations start July 1st!
Starbucks announced that it will start offer free WLAN in all of their US location start July 1.
The official Starbucks twitter account just announced that wireless local area network will be free of complaint at all their US locations. This instantly crook them into one of the largest operator of free wireless local area network in the existence
Best of all, the twitter announcement confirms that no registration will be required, and that connexion will be “one-click”.
Cathay, Air France attention deficit disorder airbags as clang regulation tighten
Cathay Pacific Ocean and Air France have started to put seatbelt-mounted airbags in their coach cabins.
“The problem with our economic system seating area is that they have rigid shell and a head impact is more difficult to handle,” Cathay Pacific Ocean Chief executive officer Tony Tyler said in an interview in German capital “Therefore we need airbags.”
About fourscore percent of aeroplane crashes are survivable, and a study of twenty-five impact-related accident by the U.K.’s Civil aviation potency for the U.S. Federal aviation administration in 2005 concluded that stronger seating area and better restraint could have averted 62 fatalities.
Ryanair’s hypocritical onrush on fair comment
Ryanair asked eve herald journalist Aoife Sherwood Anderson to reappraisal the airline’s carry-on bag produced by Samsonite. She liked it overall, but she was questioning its size That was too much for Ryanair.
Sadly for Anderson that flirtation with criticism was deemed a step too far by Ryanair. whose response was to humiliate the journalist publicly before effectively blackmailing her into a retraction.
Continuing a newfound tendency of launching onset on individual journalists, the airline issued a statement calling on Anderson to “see the fault of her ways” and re-test the product If the eve herald letter writer acquiesced – and in the process admitted “just how wrong she was” by cramming more into the bag – Ryanair would donate €1,000 to the charity of her pick
