Testing and QA - User cases are key to preparation during the final phase before app submission.... Read More

In the last round of GDS negotiations in 2007, airlines such as American Airlines and Delta Airlines stridently warned that they would pull out of major GDSs if the carriers didn't get their way.... Read More

Olaf Gueldner, manager director and president of Travelport in Europe, answers three key questions about the business and the wider GDS sector.... Read More

Apple changed the music industry with iTunes. Might smartphone manufacturers like Samsung, Nokia, Motorola and RIM or mobile operating-system providers like Apple, Google or Microsoft disrupt the travel industry by weaving themselves into the fabric of travel distribution?... Read More

Tnooz, PhoCusWright and others live blogging from the Bloggers' Summit at ITB in Berlin.... Read More

Most popular travel websites in the Hong Kong region for the week ending March 6 2010.... Read More

John Peters, the president and CEO of Tripology, says Rand McNally acquired Tripology on Friday as the 154-year-old map and travel guide company transforms itself into an online and location-based online travel company.... Read More

Dennis Woodside has some simple advice for travel marketers who will have to try to cope with the coming disruption -- "dog-fooding."... Read More

Google's Dennis Woodside says the company rolled out Google Buzz too abruptly and likely won't introduce other new products in a similar manner.... Read More

Client and server development - These elements are seen as separate parts of the process but are obviously very complementary.... Read More

Travelport's announcement that it is bringing all of its GDS advertising business in-house -- and it is the first major GDS to do so -- is a fairly momentous development because it breaks TravelClick's near monopoly on green-screen advertising.... Read More

The chatter generated by Kayak when it announced it is considering adding a booking element into its model appears not to have inspired others to think the same.... Read More

Amtrak, the federally funded rail line operating in 46 states, launched a Twitter account, @AmtrakUSA, the other day and is trying to get its social-media act together.... Read More

Tripology, which ran out of funding early in 2010 and signed a letter of intent with an unidentified buyer, now says "the deal is done."... Read More

With American Airlines and HP having just signed a contract for HP to build a new reservations system, called Jetstream, for the airline, it now turns out that American has an exit clause in the event it gets cold feet about the massive project, according to a source.... Read More