First in-air video conference

Last month, on the flight from Munich to San Francisco, two Apple managers killed time with iChat AV, iSight, 17-inch PowerBook G4, an Airbus and an orbiting satellite.

In was probably the first in-air commercial videoconference, Kurt Knight, on the ground in Cupertino, hooked up over iChat AV with Eric Zelenka, returning to San Francisco from Munich, by leveraging Lufthansa’s new wireless high-speed broadband connection service.

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