Contents Expedia Travel Bloggers • Airfare Market Broken • Airline Fee Table • Facebook Check-in Data • Kayak-ITA+Amadeus • Save on Summer Travel • Frommer’s Bargains • Travel Dancing Expedia Travel Blogger Promotion Shifts into High Gear Last month I wrote about Expedia’s partnering with top travel bloggers for our big summer promotion. With summer…
Windows Phone 8•More MS Surface•WikiStats•Bing ties for best Local•Shapeways 3D Hot•DIY 3D wire bending machine. Windows Phone 8 Announced. Lots of Pros and Some Unfortunate Cons Microsoft announced details of Windows Phone 8 today and the upgrade is impressive. Windows phone will move from the old CE kernel to the same NT core used by…
Tech knows what you want before you do•Expedia Ranks High•Egencia Next Gen•OTA Myths•China Travel Roundup•iOS Passbook•Airlines Clueless•Airlines v. GDSs•Rental Car Damages• Cruise the San Juans• Great Travel Photos and the “Right Light” Better than Real Time: Tech that Knows What You Want Before You Do HotelTonight wants to book your room before you know you want…
Microsoft Surface Roundup • Facebook gets Face • Facebook Stock Recovers • Facebook’s Social Science • Windows Phone Accelerates • Sonos gets $$$ • Remembering Alan Turing • Why Apple Stores Rock • eBooks surpass hardcovers • Hot Hot Pinterest • Workday Enterprise Software • Game Developers: Bye bye Google+ • Just One More: 3D…
Details just went up at http://www.microsoft.com/surface/en/us/whatissurface.aspx Product website: http://surface.com Briefly from today’s presentation: It is a Windows 8 Tablet, sold directly by Microsoft and branded as “Surface” 10.6 inch 16:9 aspect ratio Proprietary magnesium case with built-in stand Magnet cover with built-in multi-touch keyboard Two lines: Windows 8 RT ARM processor Windows 8 Pro based…
Controllable Video Perspective • Hipmunk gets $15M • Personalization v. Privacy • Commission-free Booking Sites • The Worth of Reviews • Travel Blogger Ad Service • Great Hotel under $100 • Bucharest Courtyard • Traveler Tech Security • Best Cheap Lodging: Hotwire Rules • Frequent Flyers no longer Elite • See Bali, get groomed by…
A Better Hadoop • Microsoft Cool? • MacBook Pro “Least Repairable Ever” • Apple Kills the GPS • Stiktu: Good or Graffiti? • Troll Repellent • Microsoft Tightens Certificate Security • DOJ Looks at Cable Antitrust • AWS Stores 1 Trillion Objects • Google Blockly • Just One More: Gorgeous Star Trails Big Data gets…
Calling out Google •Hospitality Tech Funding Up • Hilton & OTAs •Big Travel Card Rewards • Google Changes Increase its Revenue & Advertisers’ Costs • Mobile Devices in Hotels • Universal-Disney Reverse Price War •New Airfare Tips •Pretty Travel Pics Calling Google on the Carpet Ex-Orbitz CEO calls out Google. Writing an opinion piece in…
MacBook Pro Screen Gorgeous • iOS 6 Passbook • IPv6 Day • Wattpad Ebook Site raises $17.3M • RebelMouse is You • Silicon Valley Startup Absurdities •Facebook App Center •Big Data on Demand •HipSwap •Next Generation of Search •Windows 8, Google, Facebook and the Innovator’s Dilemma •Ubuntu, meet Azure •Flame Malware “World-Class” • Dish Network…
Not Social 1 & 2 • Online Travel Slowing, not Mobile • Hotel Revenue & Rates Up • Pay More or Less for Travel • No Airbnb! • LinkedIn Cracks • eHarmony Cracks • “Security” Questions • Google Earth 3D • Foursquare • Ray Bradbury Travel It’s not about the Social Online social media advocates…
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