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Weekly output: American Airlines WiFi, Archer Aviation eVTOL air taxis, Google display-ads antitrust violations

During one of the busier travel weeks of the year (happy Easter, everyone), it only seems right for two of my posts for clients to involve commercial aviation. Airlines also figure in my own schedule over the coming week, because Saturday night I depart for Brazil to moderate three panels at Web Summit Rio.

In addition to the posts below, I wrote one Thursday for Patreon readers about how my attitude about taking press trips–meaning, trips subsidized by the company or organization behind the event in question–has changed over the past 10 years.

4/15/2025: Free Inflight Wi-Fi (Finally) Coming to American Airlines, PCMag

AA started this week with the least-competitive WiFi pricing of any U.S. carrier, and now it has one of the most-asterisked announcements of free WiFi among its competitors.

4/17/2025: Archer Aviation, United Airlines Tease Electric Air Taxi Hops to NYC Airports, PCMag

Spending half an hour on a Teams call with Archer’s chief commercial officer Nikhil Goel yielded details left out of the the company’s press release–as well as a questionable assurance that the Trump administration’s devotion to innovation would speed the Federal Aviation Administration’s certification of its Midnight electric vertical-take-off-and-landing aircraft.

4/17/2025: Google Guilty of ‘Willfully Anticompetitive Acts’ in Display-Ads Business, Court Finds, PCMag

A little over two years after I filed a post from a deli in Wallops Island, Va., about the Justice Department’s lawsuit alleging multiple antitrust violations by Google in its display-ads business, I covered Judge Leonie Brinkema holding for the plaintiffs on three of their five claims in a ruling that could lead to the forced divestiture of major parts of Google’s display-ads business. Since that business has done my own industry few favors in recent years, I don’t feel too sorry for Google about that possibility.

#AA #airTaxi #AmericanAirlines #AmericanAirlinesWiFi #ArcherAviation #bannerAds #displayAds #eVTOL #EWR #GoogleAntitrust #GoogleDisplayAds #inflightWiFi #LGA #NYC #NYCAirports #UnitedAirlines

2015 Google emails revealed in 2024 antitrust case show Ad Market Dominance: Court documents from US v. Google case expose internal data on Google's commanding position in mobile and desktop ad exchanges. https://ppc.land/2015-google-emails-revealed-in-2024-antitrust-case-show-ad-market-dominance/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #GoogleAntitrust #AdMarket #DigitalAdvertising #TechNews #MobileAds

Google Antitrust Case: Parties disagree on remedy proceedings schedule: DOJ, state plaintiffs and Google submit competing proposals for remedy phase timeline in ongoing antitrust lawsuit. https://ppc.land/google-antitrust-case-parties-disagree-on-remedy-proceedings-schedule/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #GoogleAntitrust #AntitrustLaw #DOJ #LegalProceedings #CompetitionLaw

Google Antitrust Case: Parties disagree on remedy proceedings schedule: DOJ, state plaintiffs and Google submit competing proposals for remedy phase timeline in ongoing antitrust lawsuit. https://ppc.land/google-antitrust-case-parties-disagree-on-remedy-proceedings-schedule/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #GoogleAntitrust #AntitrustLaw #DOJ #LegalProceedings #CompetitionLaw

Weekly output: Brendan Carr, next big things in robotics and automation and in space and telecom, Android 16, Starship flight test, Google search-antitrust case, 1Password

The last full workweek of November had me feeling very busy.

11/18/2024: Trump’s Pick for FCC Chair Has Vowed Crackdown on Big Tech ‘Censorship’, PCMag

President-elect Trump naming Brendan Carr as his next chair of the Federal Communications Commission gave me a reason to look through my notes of his talks at telecom events over the past couple of years.

11/19/2024: The 3 next big things in robotics and automation for 2024, Fast Company

I’ve spent a non-trivial part of the last few months assessing candidate companies for this list, and now the results of that work are public.

11/19/2024: The 3 next big things in space and telecom for 2024, Fast Company

My other part of this year’s version of Fast Company’s “NBTT” list involved a couple of  industry sectors that I enjoy covering for that publication.

11/19/2024: First Android 16 Dev Preview Is Here As Google Pushes Up OS Launch Window, PCMag

Google moving up the release cycle for the next version of Android meant that I did not have to write this post in a jet-lagged haze in an Airbnb room in Barcelona as I did in February.

11/20/2024: Starship’s Sixth Flight Test Skips the Tower Catch, Ends in Soft Splashdown, PCMag

Writing about this flight test was easier than covering Starship’s fifth flight test, because I did not have to get up before 7 a.m. on a Sunday.

11/21/2024: DOJ Wants to Force Google to Sell Chrome, License Search Data to Rivals, PCMag

Writing about a government proposal to force a tech giant to divest some core assets reminded me of covering the Microsoft antitrust trial some 25 years ago.

11/21/2024: 1Password Chief Wouldn’t Mind Apple, Google Getting Pushy About Passkeys, PCMag

I wrote up a conversation I’d had the previous Thursday morning at Web Summit in Lisbon with 1Password’s co-CEO Jeff Shiner; I needed another few days to check a few details about how that password-manager service that I’ve used since 2019 deals with passkey authentication.

#1Password #Android16 #FastCompany #FCC #FlockSafety #GoogleAntitrust #GoogleChrome #GoogleSearchAntitrust #JeffShiner #Luminar #MachinaLabs #NBTT #passkeys #SierraSpace #Skylo #SpaceX #SpaceXStarship #Starship #TMobile