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Most popular New Zealand travel websites - July 10 2010
By PhocusWire | July 14, 2010
Most popular travel websites in New Zealand for the week ending July 10 2010.... Read More
Alaska Airlines, Pacific Northwest airports to assess biomass options
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Alaska Airlines, Pacific Northwest airports to assess biomass options
By Dennis Schaal | July 14, 2010
Could the algae have answers?... Read More
Travelport gushing over strong start to Leisure agent portal
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Travelport gushing over strong start to Leisure agent portal
By Kevin May | July 14, 2010
Travelport appears to be popping the champagne after just five weeks since the relaunch of its Travelport Leisure hotel portal for travel agents.... Read More
HomeAway hires PayPal exec, works on payment, booking initiatives
By PhocusWire | July 14, 2010
HomeAway primarily acts as a vacation-renting listing service, but it just brought in a PayPal executive as chief operating officer and continues to explore payment and booking initiatives.... Read More
Watchdog: Airlines should disclose all fees, inform passengers of eligible refunds
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Watchdog: Airlines should disclose all fees, inform passengers of eligible refunds
By Dennis Schaal | July 14, 2010
U.S. airlines are getting governmental pressure to disclose all fees and to pay taxes on them, as well.... Read More
Apple buys online mapping company Poly9
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Apple buys online mapping company Poly9
By Kevin May | July 14, 2010
Apple is doing its bit for US-Canadian trade relations - and perhaps shining another light on strategy - after buying Quebec-based 3D interactive mapping software maker Poly9.... Read More
American Airlines to stay member of OpenTravel
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American Airlines to stay member of OpenTravel
By Dennis Schaal | July 14, 2010
There are no apparent signs of an airline exit from OpenTravel now that six major US airlines have formed their own XML standards group, Open AXIS Group.... Read More
Youngsters bored with Facebook, travel companies should make it more interesting
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Youngsters bored with Facebook, travel companies should make it more interesting
By Kevin May | July 14, 2010
Just when travel companies were perhaps beginning to see some opportunities with Facebook then a survey comes out saying the kids are already losing faith.... Read More
Most popular Canada travel websites - July 10 2010
By PhocusWire | July 14, 2010
Most popular travel websites in Canada for the week ending July 10 2010.... Read More
TLabs Showcase - Yoplr
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TLabs Showcase - Yoplr
By Kevin May | July 14, 2010
TLabs Showcase focus on startups featuring India-based Yoplr.... Read More
Kayak throws Explore tool onto iPad, finds a natural home
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Kayak throws Explore tool onto iPad, finds a natural home
By Kevin May | July 14, 2010
Kayak is celebrating 170,000+ downloads of its iPad application in little under three months by throwing its also well received Explore tool into the system.... Read More
Most popular France travel websites - July 10 2010
By PhocusWire | July 14, 2010
Most popular travel websites in France for the week ending July 10 2010.... Read More
Airfare-data distributor gets board seat on new standards body, Open AXIS Group
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Airfare-data distributor gets board seat on new standards body, Open AXIS Group
By Dennis Schaal | July 13, 2010
Open AXIS Group, a new XML standards body for airlines, had its coming out party as it launched with six founding-member North American airlines, plus ATPCO as an allied member.... Read More
EasyVoyage snaps up Independent newspaper travel search job
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EasyVoyage snaps up Independent newspaper travel search job
By Kevin May | July 13, 2010
French travel search and content provider EasyVoyage is attempting to cement a stronger position in the UK by partnering with The Independent newspaper.... Read More
Worldmate builds automatic trip monitoring system for Blackberry
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Worldmate builds automatic trip monitoring system for Blackberry
By Kevin May | July 13, 2010
Blackberry users on mobile trip manager Worldmate will be the first on the system to have their emails automatically scanned for travel bookings.... Read More