Profile – Connexion (Boeing)

Michael Arrington

J. Michael Arrington (born March 13, 1970 in Huntington Beach, California) is a serial entrepreneur and the founder of TechCrunch, a blog covering startups and technology news. Arrington attended Claremont McKenna College (BA Economics, 1992) and Stanford Law School (JD, 1995) and practiced as a corporate and securities lawyer at two law firms: O’Melveny & Myers and Wilson Sonsini Goodrich... → Learn More

Wednesday, July 6th, 2005

Company: Connexion by Boeing



What is it?

It’s high speed internet access in the sky. I just posted a profile of a new skype tool and did it all sitting here on an SAS flight from Seattle to Copenhagen (heading to the ICANN conference in Luxembourg next week). The technology for this has been around for a few years, but this is my first experience using it. I’m skype-outing at $0.02 per minute, gizmo’ing, IMing with people, uploading and downloading like crazy, and generally making a nuisance of myself to everyone around me.

Pricing is $30 for the entire trip. What a wonderful productivity tool for long flights while we research, use and write about new web2.0 services!

Screen Shots and Pictures:

Links:

Stratoblog
Blog Business Summit
Skype Air Heads
Flickr tag: connexion
Chris Pirillo uses the Service (from the parking lot at first :-) )

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