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Top Tnooz this Week - Convergence, Killers, Rankers and Bloggers
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Top Tnooz this Week - Convergence, Killers, Rankers and Bloggers
By PhocusWire | December 19, 2010
What were the most popular articles on Tnooz this week?... Read More
Travelport poised to bias American Airlines flights as airline surcharge begins
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Travelport poised to bias American Airlines flights as airline surcharge begins
By Dennis Schaal | December 17, 2010
Travelport is poised to begin biasing certain American Airlines' flights by including an airline surcharge to travel agencies in fare displays, fare quotes and shopping displays beginning Dec. 20.... Read More
Five things travel websites could learn from proper customer service
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Five things travel websites could learn from proper customer service
By Viewpoints | December 17, 2010
Research shows that, yet again, travel websites are being severely let down by poor customer service, with email and telephone capability failing across many sites.... Read More
Virgin Atlantic gives joy to plane spotters, maybe others
By Kevin May | December 17, 2010
Virgin Atlantic released an upgraded version of its Flight Tracker mobile application yesterday, allowing users to monitor the exact location of aircraft on a map.... Read More
Word Lens takes Google Goggles to the next level, translates on-screen
By Kevin May | December 17, 2010
Much was made of Google Goggles when it launched in late-2009 with image recognition technology, followed by a translation tool about seven months ago.... Read More
TLabs Showcase - Explore Travellr
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TLabs Showcase - Explore Travellr
By Kevin May | December 17, 2010
TLabs Showcase on travel startups featuring Australia-based Explore.Travellr, a university project around trip planning.... Read More
Most popular Hong Kong travel websites - December 11 2010
By PhocusWire | December 16, 2010
Most popular travel websites in the Hong Kong region for the week ending December 11 2010.... Read More
Southwest considering Sabre or Amadeus for new reservations system
By Dennis Schaal | December 16, 2010
Southwest Airlines is actively considering a switch to a new internal reservations system and has narrowed its choices of vendors to Sabre and Amadeus.... Read More
Junaio and eBay Classifieds unite for augmented reality travel deal finder
By Kevin May | December 16, 2010
eBay Classifieds has developed a service with augmented reality experts Junaio to give users a different way to access travel products and other goods.... Read More
Tripology travel agents and travelers view gains with Skype
By Dennis Schaal | December 16, 2010
Travel agents getting leads from Tripology increasingly are seeing eye-to-eye with their clients.... Read More
Why do travel advertisers continue to avoid bloggers?
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Why do travel advertisers continue to avoid bloggers?
By Viewpoints | December 16, 2010
As we have all heard, old media is dying. Ad revenues are drying up, journalists are getting laid off, ad pages are shrinking, yadda, yadda, yadda.... Read More
TLabs Showcase - Career Break Secrets
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TLabs Showcase - Career Break Secrets
By Kevin May | December 16, 2010
TLabs Showcase on travel startups featuring US-based trip planning service for getaway professionals Career Break Secrets.... Read More
Pierre and Vacances creates Second Life-inspired travel game
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Pierre and Vacances creates Second Life-inspired travel game
By Kevin May | December 16, 2010
French accommodation provider Pierre & Vacances is hoping visitors to its website are prepared to go native ahead of their trip by playing a web version of Petanque.... Read More
Kuoni brings long haul deals and content to mobile
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Kuoni brings long haul deals and content to mobile
By Kevin May | December 16, 2010
Luxury long haul tour operator Kuoni has entered AppLand this week with the launch of its first mobile application, kicking off with a service for Apple iPhones.... Read More
Most popular Singapore travel websites - December 11 2010
By PhocusWire | December 16, 2010
Most popular travel websites in Singapore for the week ending December 11 2010.... Read More
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