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If a picture is worth a thousands words, then weekly videos showing vacationers frolicking at Florida Keys beaches, with no traces of the Gulf oil spill in sight, must count for a whole lot more.... Read More

Not uncommon but a very live example of wholesale theft of content and functionality from travel websites by mysterious folk intent on masquerading as another business.... Read More

More small but not insignificant nuggets of information emerging slowly from Thomas Cook about its plans to build and run an online travel agency in Europe.... Read More

Check-in at a participating hotel using any geo-location service, from foursquare to the much-anticipated Facebook check-in feature, and TopGuest will give you bonus points and special offers.... Read More

Terrifying research released today showing that younger web users are increasingly impatient over the speed in which travel sites take to fully load.... Read More

Oyster.com, which features journalist-written hotel reviews, plans to launch websites in Canada, the U.K., Germany, France, Spain and Italy before the end of 2010, the company says.... Read More

We are in the middle of a mobile revolution (I admit it). But there are two elements lacking from the mobile revolution before devices on-the-move can beat those on the desk.... Read More

TLabs Showcase focus on startups featuring Seattle, US-based Off&Away.... Read More

Thomas Cook is moving against the Zeitgeist (hype?) today by announcing Playstation PSP devices will be made available for hire on its fleet of aircraft, rather than Apple iPads.... Read More

TripAdvisor is to tap into the vast array of connections already in play via Facebook to launch its first personalised recommendation system for hotels.... Read More

Logical extension of the Lastminute.com Topsee app for the iPhone, now available on the Apple iPad and taking advantage of the larger screen for multi-person use.... Read More

What you missed on Tnooz this week, Sunday 6 June to Saturday 12 June 2010.... Read More

Online travel guides, GPS systems and maps accessible through your mobile device are all the rage, but state officials in Utah are running out of the print versions of the official state road map and the Utah travel guide.... Read More

Canadian travel content and technology firm PlanetEye is having a lot of fun and getting some interesting results after playing with FourSquare for a few weeks.... Read More

Soccer fans visiting South Africa for the 2010 FIFA World Cup can look to Google Maps to check out the country's tourist attactions, if that is their goal.... Read More