Travel Technology

American Airlines announced today the release of a widget for Facebook in an effort to "understand how consumers interact with one anot...

, Today Delta matched earlier moves by United and USAirways to charge $25 for a second checked bag. This is both a reaction to increased o...

WiMax's first commercial rollout may very well be at U.S. airports. The goal is to provide a faster upload of manifests, flight plans a...

I had a great conversation this morning with Jerome Thil the CEO of the French meta-travel search company Sprice. In Europe and other part...

Yesterday's announcement concerning the availability of the iPhone SDK (Software Development Kit) is significant for potential travel ap...

A news release late last month announced a new relationship between Farelogix and ITA Software. First a bit of disclosure, Farelogix has bee...

Alaska Airlines has introduced an avatar interface called Jenn on its Website. My longtime blog readers will recall me mentioning the histo...

A new meta-search company, InsideTrip was mentioned today in Tech Crunch . The model is the now familiar multi-site airline search pioneered...

The Micros Fidelio and Expedia announcement today regarding a new direct connection capability is a significant development for the hospital...

Sabre introduced a new enterprise level social networking application today. American Express was named as an initial distributor of the app...

Yesterday, I had the opportunity to talk with Steven Bloom from SkyGate a Danish travel technology company. SkyGate has developed an agenc...

I had the pleasure this morning to meet with one of the founders of Circos. In one of my earlier blogs I classified Circos in the same cate...

The recent Orbitz for Business survey results regarding the value of Internet connectivity on the plane continues to produce headlines like ...

No one would disagree that the cell phone is quickly evolving into a personal mobile computing device. Thinking of a cell phone in terms o...

I am listening to a BTN/Concur sponsored Webinar regarding corporate self-booking tools. Perhaps I have a bit of a jaded view on the subje...

Demo 2008 is the annual event where start-ups get to do a brief pitch to potential investors. Circos is a new qualitative search engine: A...

Two stories from late 2007 and early 2008 signal a shift in the online travel model. In November 2007 at the PhoCusWright conference in Orl...

For some time I have been talking about ubiquitous computing and the always connected traveler. I just received a briefing from the senior ...

Facebook's attempt to exploit its social network for advertising purposes has raised some major concerns from their users. The Beacon ...

The announcement this week by Verizon that they are opening up their wireless network has significant importance for the development of new ...