High-Speed Wireless Internet Access at BWI
High-Speed wireless internet access for BWI travelers is now available in all food courts within the airport:
O'Brien's, Charlie's Grilled Subs, C-Concourse Beer Garden, Preakness Lounge and Harbor Lounge.
Travelers can purchase, and for a short time, borrow a wireless network card at each location. The flexible
rate plans for access enable travelers to choose PayPerUse for 25 cents per minute, unlimited daily access
for $7.95 or monthly plans for as low as $15.95. Customers who have a wireless internet access card in
their laptop, only need to turn it on and it should find the signal and bring up the wireless server's homepage.
The customer then logs on and pays the fee to get wireless access. For information, call 877-WISE-321.
Next-Generation Xbox Will Be More of a Digital Entertainment Hub
Than Predecessor, Gates Says
Microsoft Corp.'s next-generation Xbox gaming console will be more of a digital entertainment hub than its
predecessor, making it even more of a PC hybrid than ever, Bill Gates told a meeting of business journalists
on Monday. The console, code-named Xenon, is due to be previewed in an MTV half-hour special later this
month. Gates, Microsoft's chairman and co-founder, was vague on specific features of Xenon but said the
company's consoles would be evolving to include improved communications tools for making multiplayer
online gaming more convivial. He told the annual meeting of the Society of American Business Editors and
Writers that Xenon's software menu would be similar to that of the company's Media Center edition of
Windows, which is designed for computers meant to be located in the living room." If you're used to that
menu, when you use this Xenon you'll see a menu a lot like that that lets you get photos, TV, music and all
those different things." Video game players want to be able to chat with their buddies, know when others
are present online, and will want to access their music and photos on their consoles in an interface already
familiar to them, Gates said.At a convention of hardware engineers last week, Gates said the company's
investments in Windows Media Center software have paid off, with more than a million copies sold since
the launch of the operating system's second version in October and a total of 2 million since the initial
system shipped three years ago.
Screeners find live snake in woman's suitcase
HONOLULU - Security screeners found a live snake inside a suitcase checked at Honolulu International
Airport, state agricultural officials said Wednesday. Tuesday's discovery marked the first time a snake, which
are illegal in Hawaii, had been found by airport screeners, they said. The luggage belonged to a woman who
was flying from Honolulu to Sacramento. Screeners with the Transportation Security Administration notified
the state after finding the non-venomous 3-foot-long orange-and-white albino corn snake.
The 32-year-old woman, who gave a Waipahu address, told authorities
she packed her own bag but didn't know how the snake got in,
officials said.
The snake is being held at the state's Plant Quarantine Branch.
The woman was issued a $5,000 citation for illegal transportation,
possession and harboring of a snake. If it isn't paid within seven
days, the amount doubles to $10,000.
Nearly all snakes, except for the small Hawaiian blind snake, are
illegal in Hawaii. Corn snakes are common in much of the mainland
and northern Mexico.
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