Travel Technology

I am in Brussels today speaking at the SITA Air Transport Summit. My talk is part of session called "Getting ready for your digital tr...

This week I am London and I had the pleasure of presenting to and participating in the Datalex User Group meeting. Datalex who has been a T...

I am old enough to remember the early days of personal computing. In fact the first Mac I worked on did not have its own hard drive and thu...

I had the opportunity to attend the Dow Jones Wireless Innovation Conference last week in Redwood Shores, CA. The event is primarily desig...

Yesterday's disclosure that Microsoft had acquired Farecast was a surprise to many in the travel industry. Is this a new online travel ...

On Friday April 4, 2008 Travelport announced that they were acquiring from G2 Switchworks "certain software assets and intellectual pr...

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...