A Brazilian bankruptcy judge has cancelled the sale of the country’s heavily indebted national airline, VARIG, to a consortium of employees. The group failed to deliver its first payment of $75m by Friday’s deadline. The group, which had offered $449m for the ailing airline, said it had failed “to reach an agreement with investors”. The […]

A recent upgrade to the iTunes Producer software used by studios to encode tracks for iTunes Music Store distribution may be a good sign for the discriminating audiophile community, as Apple has included the necessary tools to create lossless AAC content that could presumably be uploaded to the online store.
While the simple availability of this […]

This past week Airbus owned up to another delay in production of its prestige jumbo jet, the A380. The debacle will cost billions in concessions and possible cancellations, and open old wounds in French-German relations.
At the International Air Show in Berlin last month, Airbus CEO Gustav Humbert showed once again how smoothly he can handle […]

There’s certainly no shocker here: T-Mobile and Danger officially unveiled the new Sidekick 3 today. [Note, however, it’s not called the “Sidekick III”. T-Mo’s PR peeps have requested that it only be written as “Sidekick 3″.]
The device’s specs don’t come as a surprise, either, since they’ve been floating around for weeks now, but here, at-a-glance, […]

It’s been a few weeks since I’ve posted anything about aviation, so I figured I’d mention this little incident that happened 2 weeks ago or so.
Shown above is the result of an uncontained engine failure of the #1 GE CF6-80A engine mounted on this American Airlines Boeing 767-200ER [Reg. N330AA, Del. 3/13/1987]. The aircraft was […]

Bill Gates has announced he will end his day-to-day role as head of software giant Microsoft by July 2008, saying the move would help him spend more time on health and education work at his charity, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Mr. Gates will continue to serve as the company’s chairman and advise on key […]

If you’re a frequent reader of my web site, you’re most likely smarter than the next guy when it comes to technology — unless you work at a company like mine, where you’re surrounded by geniuses.
Given that, it probably goes without saying that if you found a USB flash drive on the street and picked […]