Here are a couple of tidbits for wireless snacking:
- Apacheta Corporation says snack food company, Lance, has implemented their Apacheta RouteACE software running on Motorola’s MC9090 mobile computers for route sales and delivery operations. It reaches more than 1200 routes with 1500 by the end of this month.
By using RouteACE on a Motorola MC9090 mobile computer equipped with a printer, Lance’s drivers are able to work more efficiently. Drivers can now manage their inventory, streamline delivery logistics, provide delivery confirmation, prepare and print invoices, process payments, manage multiple pricing and promotions models, place orders, and run a variety of reports.
- Quad-Cities Online, an Illinois ISP will build a WiMAX Network to deliver broadband across western Illinois and eastern Iowa.
Nortel WiMAX technology will be used through Quad-Cities Online, an ISP, to deliver the Moline Dispatch and provide fixed and mobile wireless broadband services to its growing subscriber base of college students and business and residential users in the Quad Cities - Davenport, Bettendorf, Moline/East Moline and Rock Island. Quad-Cities Online is a service of Moline Dispatch Publishing Co., which also publishes daily newspapers.
QCO’s 802.16e WiMAX network will run over 2.5 GHz spectrum available to QCO through a long-term lease of Black Hawk College’s Educational Broadcasting Service (EBS) channels.
- Southwest Airlines may put Wi-Fi on its airplanes, reports the Denver Post. They plan to outfit a few planes with in-cabin wireless Internet service that would “allow for e-mail, of course, but also potentially provide entertainment services,” chief executive Gary Kelly said during a conference call Thursday. Backbone provider AirCell has talked to Southwest “quite a bit over the years,” said AirCell marketing director Tom Myers. “We’d be delighted if they wanted to enter a more formal selection process.”
JetBlue’s LiveTV subsidiary won a tiny part of the spectrum, and may also introduce in-flight service, according to the paper. Frontier Airlines, also interested in in-flight Wi-Fi, is “weighing a couple different options,” said spokesman Joe Hodas. “We’ve already got a vendor and (LiveTV) equipment on our plane, so they’re working on a solution as well that might be the easiest turnkey solution for us.”
Other companies planning to offer WiFi in aircraft include Row 44 and Starling, which plan to use Ku-band satellite services. Starling’s SKYLink by ARINC Direct (pdf), claims to be the only in-flight broadband satellite service for business aircraft.
