Pauline Frommer, daughter of famous travel guide author Arthur and a well-known travel writer in her own right, recently published a provocative article that has been picked up by at least a few travel sites. Starting with comments made by Tony Tyler, CEO of the International Air Transport Association, she writes that hotels and airlines…
Contents Priceline to Acquire Kayak • Semantic Search • Expedia Destination Experiences • North Korean Super Hotel • Traverie • Allegiant Air • Travel Briefs • Travel Aspirations Priceline to Acquire Kayak for $1.8 Billion In an unexpected move that set the online travel industry buzzing, Kayak has agreed to be acquired by Priceline. This…
Contents Gadget Overdose • Microsoft Surface • Hurricane Sandy • Apple Shake-up • Global Consumer Analyses • Security • Build Your Own Servers • Tech Briefs • Just Two More Gadget Overdose: A Big Week for Tech Product Launches The past week has been a big one for product launches. As TechCrunch notes, it was…
Contents TravelTech Patent Stupidity • More Google Antitrust • Booking.com Reselling Canceled Rooms • WantMeGetMe • THack Singapore • Travel Agents Selling Air Again • Ancillary Fees • Mobile Travel Transformation • Toblerone and Guest Satisfaction • 22 Travel Briefs • 3 Travel Aspirations TravelTech Patent Litigation Stupidity Plug the following string into Bing or…
The AeroQuad quad-rotor featured in this video was named as one of the 6 Top Robots of Maker Faire. Read about all 6 robots at the bottom of this post. Google Trying to Preempt EU Anti-Trust Action but Critics Not Impressed If you’ve used Google for a hotel search recently, you’ve probably seen Google’s Hotel…
World’s Tallest Hotel • Booking.com most Profitable • Airfare Transparency • ICANN is Broken • Room Key • Expedia Pay-at-Checkout Controversy • OTAs Must Pay Retail Taxes • HotelTonight Acqui-hires PrimaTable • More Hotel Lock Hacking • Travel Wikis • Remote Presence Avatar • Travel Briefs • Travel Aspirations World’s Tallest Hotel Scheduled to Open…
Contents Apple Maps • iPhone 5 • Best Smartphone Camera • New Nooks • Autonomous Cars • SHA-3 • Motives for Creating Startups • Startup Squatter • Tech Briefs • Google Sea View A Worm in the Apple The iPhone 5’s new operating system, iOS 6, which is also available for owners of older iPhones and iPads,…
2012-09-20 Update: We shared this review with the folks at EuroCheapo via Twitter and they replied: Excellent recap. You know what you’re talking about & touched on nearly every design/feature debate we’ve had the past 4 months. New York-based EuroCheapo, which has been around since 2001, just relaunched its hotel search and booking site. Interaction designer…
Contents Airbus Catapult • American Airlines’ Bad News • Marriott in Cusco • Travel Briefs • Travel InfoGraphics • What Kids Learn from Travel Airbus Envisions the Future: Airliners to be Launched by Fuel Saving Catapults Airbus has for some time now been rolling out a far-out, science fiction-like vision of aviation’s future. A recent…
Contents Predictions for New Kindles • Nokia 920 • Anonymous Hacking Claims not Supported • Primer on A/B Testing • T-Mobile: Bring your Own iPhone • Startups’ Enterprise Advantage • Tech Briefs • TechPop • Blue Sky and Clouds in Your Office Recent Gadget News 1: Amazon Announces new Kindles Amazon announced a range of…
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