The average delay for a jetBlue flight that ran late was 65 minutes, according to DOT data for the first 10 months of the year.

WSJ: The Leader in Lost Bags, Canceled Flights

The overall rate of cancellations among major carriers was unchanged in 2011 from 2010 at 1.4% of all flights, according to DOT data covering 10 months and FlightStats data for November and December.

WSJ: The Leader in Lost Bags, Canceled Flights

American's on-time rate climbed to 75.7% from 68.6%, according to FlightStats, and the rate at which it mishandled checked luggage dropped by 25%, according to DOT data for the first 10 months of 2009, the most recent numbers available.

WSJ: An Airline Report Card: Fewer Delays, Hassles Last Year, but Bumpy Times May Be Ahead

Though HP's Procurve line of switches already compete with Cisco's hardware, the 3Com deal will offer HP far more firepower in the war to own the corporate data center. 3Com, a dot-com boom and bust veteran, recently launched a new series of data center switches that compete directly with Cisco's Nexus switching line and cost about 40% less on average, according to the Yankee Group.

FORBES: Enterprise

Nearly one out of every eight jetBlue flights was at least 45 minutes late last year, according to DOT and FlightStats data.

WSJ: The Leader in Lost Bags, Canceled Flights

The chip, which requires no power, works like this: Up to four megabits of data are put into the chip by touching the dot with an encased coil about the width of a pencil eraser.

FORBES: Dot's A Lot

He'd survived layoffs at Goldman Sachs' Silicon Valley offices during the dot-com crash, become a well-regarded equity analyst of data storage companies, then taken his stock-picking skills into hedge funds.

FORBES: Magazine Article

Hewlett-Packard has invented a wireless data chip that can store 100 pages of text or 15 seconds of video on a dot about half the size of a rice grain, with potentially dramatic applications in everything from health care to photography and marketing.

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