Travel Technology

First let me apologize to my blog readers for my long absense. I have been juggling a number of different client projects working long hour...

The talk began with this basic premise: How do you balance needs of the users with emerging technologies? The goal of the talk was to use di...

Ubiquitous computing is moving away from traditional platforms (PC, PDA, smartphone) to include non traditional platforms such running shoes...

Jeff is the original founder and designer of Palm. He described human function and how his new company Numenta is developing next generation...

Mr. Vogels is the VP and CTO of Amazon.com. His talk focused on how Amazon has created an the backbone which can enable small start-ups to ...

Panel with Tim O"Reilly and William H. Janeway, Vice Chairman, Warburg Pincus and Peter Bloom, Managing Director, General Atlantic LLC ...

Using an story of a cheating Vegas dealer illegally working with a customer to illustrate how data silos don't interact , Jeff introdu...

I am blogging today from the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference in San Diego. In 2006, my friend and colleague Philip Wolf coined ...

In an effort to answer my prior blog entry regarding the commodification of self-booking technology, I am pleased to announce a new joint r...

In his 2005 book, The World is Flat, Thomas Friedman describes the unplanned cascade of technological and social shifts that effectively lev...

I have been involved with corporate self-booking tools since their inception in the early 1990s. At that time companies such as TravelNet a...

M:Metrics released some detailed stats on 3G usage that should raise a flag for all in the travel industry. If you don't know, 3G refer...

First they brought us Kazza and then Skype. Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom are now working on a new peer to peer (P2P) application that i...

Today, the Beat (part of ProMedia http://www.promedia.travel/ ) released an article I created regarding the gap between emerging technologie...

I am glad to report that the remaining speakers at the recent Eye for Travel CRM conference in San Fransisco improved significantly from the...

I am attending a new conference today in San Francisco: "CRM and the Travel Industry" organized by the Eye for Travel organization...

When I authored the report on Dynamic Packaging I had high hopes that we were on the brink of a new era; one which the value of a customer...

Travel Weekly reported today that Sabre is exploring possible collaboration with G2 SwitchWorks . This is based on a comment made by Sabr...

The announcement today that two private equity firms are buying out Sabre is part of a bigger trend. Over the last two years, investors hav...

Today's announcement by TRX on the acquisition of Hi-Mark marks a significant step in the area of corporate travel data management. Ove...