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Growing online: HotelRunner bridges digital divide for lower tier hotels
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Growing online: HotelRunner bridges digital divide for lower tier hotels
By Nick Vivion | June 11, 2013
HotelRunner, a product of Turkish start-up CloudArena, is aimed squarely at helping the zero-to-three star segment of the hospitality industry reach digital audiences.... Read More
Waze goes Google, taking it out of play and making maps red-hot
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Waze goes Google, taking it out of play and making maps red-hot
By Nick Vivion | June 11, 2013
Maps continue their red-hot march as the interface for travel, as Google officially agrees to purchase mapping application Waze.... Read More
Can a state-backed technology project provide the travel industry's missing link?
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Can a state-backed technology project provide the travel industry's missing link?
By Viewpoints | June 11, 2013
Could the European travel industry ever commit to a single, pan-European online platform that travel agents, OTAs, tour operators and suppliers would use to connect with each other?... Read More
ID90T wins $3 million investment for lift airline employee travel software tools
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ID90T wins $3 million investment for lift airline employee travel software tools
By Kevin May | June 11, 2013
Gerbera Capital and Mexico Ventures have led a financing round with airline employee travel platform ID90T, worth $3 million in Series B capital.... Read More
Musings from an airline executive on why third party travel apps are winning
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Musings from an airline executive on why third party travel apps are winning
By Linda Fox | June 11, 2013
Mobile strategy is probably keeping many an airline executive awake at night but one chose to share his reflections at a recent Amadeus conference... Read More
Mishandled bags move one click closer to extinction
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Mishandled bags move one click closer to extinction
By Nick Vivion | June 10, 2013
A technological mashup now promises to reduce that number even further: the combination of traditional luggage, an RFID chip and a Find My Bag iPhone app.... Read More
Don't choke on your coffee - next big thing in tech REALLY is augmented reality (again)
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Don't choke on your coffee - next big thing in tech REALLY is augmented reality (again)
By PhocusWire | June 10, 2013
Reality isn't what is used to be. With increasingly powerful technologies, the human universe is being reimagined way beyond Google Glass' photo-tapping and info cards floating in space above your eye.... Read More
Introducing the largest travel metasearch engine in the world: Google
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Introducing the largest travel metasearch engine in the world: Google
By Alex Kremer | June 10, 2013
Did you notice? Google recently indicated exactly what it is aiming to ultimately become in the travel industry.... Read More
8,000 all in - some stats and the law of averages
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8,000 all in - some stats and the law of averages
By Kevin May | June 10, 2013
We passed the 8,000th article mark over the weekend, almost a year to the day that we reached the 6,000 milestone.... Read More
Behold the gesture controlled tourism website
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Behold the gesture controlled tourism website
By Karthick Prabu | June 10, 2013
Kerala Tourism has taken technology to a whole new level by launching a gesture controlled website.... Read More
TourRadar woos ex-Expedia CEO as part of angel investment round to boost consumer tools
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TourRadar woos ex-Expedia CEO as part of angel investment round to boost consumer tools
By Kevin May | June 10, 2013
Former Expedia CEO Erik Blachford is one of a number of big names putting some angel investment into tours and activities service TourRadar.... Read More
Know your SaaS from your PaaS from your IaaS [INFOGRAPHIC]
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Know your SaaS from your PaaS from your IaaS [INFOGRAPHIC]
By Kevin May | June 9, 2013
There's been so much talk about Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) in recent years that stalwarts Platform-as-a-Service and Infrastructure-as-a-Service rarely get a look in.... Read More
MARKETING - Product news, launches and more - June 2013
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MARKETING - Product news, launches and more - June 2013
By PhocusWire | June 9, 2013
Novotel's new virtual concierge system results in increased CSAT scores.... Read More
App pricing and how much will consumers pay for quality
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App pricing and how much will consumers pay for quality
By PhocusWire | June 8, 2013
Our smartphones are probably one of the most expensive things we carry around each day.... Read More
(Sad) Sign of the times - parents take at least three gadgets on a trip just to keep the kids happy
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(Sad) Sign of the times - parents take at least three gadgets on a trip just to keep the kids happy
By Kevin May | June 7, 2013
Remember the good ol' days when kids would build sandcastles on the beach for hours, explore the nooks and crannies of a hotel, and have to be dragged out of the pool every day at 9pm?... Read More
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