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Best of Tnooz last week - Types, Claims, Ranks, Assaults, Planning, Lates and Trippers
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September 30, 2012
What were the best articles on Tnooz last week?...
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iGoToo changes name to VadoVia after Travelocity claims name too similar to IgoUgo
By Kevin May
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September 28, 2012
VadoVia is dusting itself down and moving on after online travel agency giant Travelocity took exception to its original name iGoToo....
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SHOCKING: Everyone wants OTA disclosure of all airline fees!
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September 28, 2012
In a shocking revelation of the obvious, a recent survey found that 94% of travelers using online travel sites want all airline fee information freely available to them in the online booking process....
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Apple admits to falling short on its Maps app
By Sean O'Neil
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September 28, 2012
Today Apple's CEO Tim Cook published a letter of apology on the company's website in what is a nod to the spate of negative user reviews over the digital maps the company used to replace Google Maps for its iPhone and iPad operating system....
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Sorry everyone – online travel planning still looks like it is broken
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September 28, 2012
I’m finally getting a chance to get away for a while after a big year at work....
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TripFab kind of came through on its promise - but ironically found itself down the toilet instead
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September 28, 2012
Entrepreneurs are generally not particularly shy people and sometimes they even border on the arrogant. It goes with the territory - he or she who shouts the loudest gets noticed....
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CheapAir unveils semantic search for booking flights with natural language queries
By Sean O'Neil
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September 28, 2012
CheapAir.com has begun beta-testing a semantic search tool that allows users to pose natural language flight queries with airport codes and dates in various formats....
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The Scan: United preps for another IT change, BestWestern.com relaunches, and more news
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September 28, 2012
United Airlines, Best Western, Vibe Travel, Travelbug, Teletext Holidays, and Harris make our roundup of the stories that are driving the travel tech conversation on 28 September....
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Mobiles and iPads wade in to the heart of travel search: discovery and inspiration
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September 28, 2012
Remember just a few years back, before Apple decided we all needed a mobile-laptop hybrid and connecting to the web via a device was a rubbish user experience at best?...
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Destinations, hotels, tours and activities - now groups can vote for their favourite on Facebook
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September 27, 2012
The winning product in the category for three developers or more at THack @ SFO last week came via Amadeus, using a dizzying array of APIs to create TVote....
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Latest assault on travel from Google: A virtual tour guide for mobiles
By Nick Vivion
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September 27, 2012
Following Google's movement of Schemer to mobile, the company continues to push deep into the mobile travel application space with the FieldTrip app for Android....
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The Scan: Half of daily deal sites may disappear in 2013, SkyTeam mulls an IT change, and other news
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September 27, 2012
Living Social, Medallia, SkyTeam, and Everbread make our roundup of the stories that are driving the travel tech conversation on 27 September....
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Google AuthorRank promises major changes for travel search [UPDATED]
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September 27, 2012
For the first time, Google may rank individual content creators by their own personal authority, and use those authority metrics to determine how highly their work should feature in other people's search results....
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Is your neighbourhood Hot or Not? UrbanGems aims to crowd-source the best parts of London
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September 27, 2012
Launched yesterday, the site ranks London's top five most beautiful, calm and happy public spaces....
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TUI Travel acquires MalaPronta, Brazil's rising OTA
By Sean O'Neil
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September 27, 2012
Brazil’s fourth largest hotel-only OTA, Malapronta, samba-danced into the spotlight today as Europe's largest tour operator purchased it....
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