Mobati

The mobile workforce requires one thing, and one thing only when they are out doing business in the world, Wifi. Without it we might as well stay home or in our cubicles.

If you find yourself traveling via train in the US, Amtrak might be your new best friend. Despite a flawed experiment in the Northeast US from AT&T, T-Mobile has jumped on board and is offering Baltimore’s Penn Station, Penn Station in New York, 30th Street Station in Philadelphia, Wilmington Station in Delaware and Union Station in Washing DC passengers Wifi connections. Happy traveling.

Alaska Airlines has announced that it will be testing out in flight internet access using satellite on flights. The broadband service that is getting pumped into flights will get injected into a Boeing 737 next spring and will be available no matter where the jet is flying.

A first of its kind service, Alaska Airlines new connection will allow users to connect mobile devices and laptops over a high speed connection at a fee that has yet to be decided upon.

Boeing had initiated the in flight internet craze, but dropped out of it when they could not get enough airlines to sign onto the project.

Microsoft has launched HealthVault, a website that lets users create and control their health records online. This project has been underway at Microsoft for over two years, and many meetings with partners in the hospital, disease prevention and health care companies to get it off the ground.

The free health service have such giant corporate partners as Johnson & Johnson, American Heart Association and the Mayo Clinic. In taking a cue from Microsoft’s Windows strategy, they are urging other companies to build upon the new HealthVault technology.

The main consumer health offerings from Microsoft’s HealthVault include personal health records, with internet search tailored to health queries. As for securing personal health records, Microsoft has said that all personal health information will be stored in secure encrypted databases with privacy controls in place. Just as online banking was iffy at first, Microsoft is aiming to make online health records information the norm. Although patients might love to keep track of their own information, we wonder how doctors and health care professionals feel about all this?

As more and more businesses are getting into the world of online applications, corporate security is in danger of being compromised.

Malicious and Web API hackers have been increasingly penetrating online applications and exposing valuable corporate data. After all, its a lot easier to hack into an open API development platform than it is to break into someones personal computer. Its a scary situation where personal shopping habits, communication, and documents could get snapped up and read, sifted through and potentially sold on the open market of identity theft.
That said, Google has started to integrate in the assets of their Postini security purchase into their business Apps to stop any attacks, and Yahoo is rolling out a special spam initiative to alleviate the chance that employees could click on malicious links in documents.