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Morning Scan: Hotels.com re-ups with EPAM, the WaveRider scramjets, Ikea will build hotels, and more travel tech news

By Sean O'Neil | August 15, 2012

Israel restores its hotel ratings system, 18 hikers get into trouble with their smartphones while... Read More

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Google Now pushes itinerary and travel notifications, and Google Translate translates text in photos

By Sean O'Neil | August 14, 2012

Google recently released upgrades for two of its free products -- Google Translate and Google Now --... Read More

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Vancouver's Opus Hotel aims to remove all landlines and replace them with iPhones

By Nick Vivion | August 14, 2012

First iPads and now iPhones: Vancouver's Opus Hotel is boldly going where no hotel has gone before, as... Read More

Ancillary Mania: Spirit scored $142 Million in passenger usage fees [INFOGRAPHIC]

By Sean O'Neil | August 14, 2012

US airlines are raking in enormous piles of cash from add-ons and fees, with the leader on a per... Read More

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Travel Tech Scan: Qype teams up with MyTaxi, short-term rentals get trustworthy, and interactive hotel TV gets affordable

By Sean O'Neil | August 14, 2012

Europe's version of Yelp has teamed up with Europe's version of Uber. It's one of the many interesting... Read More

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Facebook users cite travel most often as their biggest life moment [INFOGRAPHIC]

By Sean O'Neil | August 14, 2012

Facebook users add more stories about travel to their Facebook Timelines "than any other type of life... Read More

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Ancillary mania: A wave of cruise fees crests with Carnival's faster boarding program

By Sean O'Neil | August 14, 2012

Carnival Cruise Lines is testing new ancillary fee revenue, moving away from the all-inclusive fare... Read More

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Record digital usage during the 2012 Olympics suggests a strong staycation trend

By Sean O'Neil | August 14, 2012

Changes in how people vacation because of the economic upheaval since 2008 may partly explain the... Read More

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KLM continues smashing through social media, this time with piñatas

By Nick Vivion | August 13, 2012

The latest in KLM quirk comes in the form of the KLM Piñata Game that offers the chance to win 2... Read More

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Lexee follows Apple's Siri and lets non-developers add speech-enabled assistants to apps

By Sean O'Neil | August 13, 2012

Today Angel, a maker of customer experience management software, has unveiled Lexee, a speech-enabled... Read More

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