Travel Technology

I am working with Bob Offutt this year screening applicants for the PhoCusWright Innovation Summit in November. This effort has triggered s...

I had the pleasure of moderating the panel entitled : Best Practices in Mobile Applications at the PhoCusWright@ITB conference earlier this ...

At the PhoCusWright@ITB Bloggers Summit, Twitter was the hot technology talked about at length as a new window into social networking. Somet...

I am blogging from the PhoCusWright@ITB. The day began with a BloggerSummit, clearly the leaders in new media from around the world with re...

Dennis Schaal, technology editor for Travel Weekly has written some very insightful articles regarding the lack of full content in the GDS ...

It was way back in 1985 I first began exploring the use of AI expert systems to automate the travel process. At that time a close friend wo...

Some reports have surfaced from local media about complaints from local merchants that Yelp is willing to remove negative reviews for a fee....

In spite of tough economic times, the microblogging site Twitter continues to receive funding. I have to admit that even though I have a p...

Apple launched its App store in March of 2008 permanently changing the way mobile applications are distributed. Today there are over 15,00...

I have been working in the travel industry since 1982. It never ceases to amaze me how in such a huge industry, the largest in the world, p...

For years a familiar theme heard throughout the business travel industry concerns the evolution of TMCs from order takers to true consultant...

I am currently back in Middle East. This is my sixth trip since July 08. Rapid growth is still the norm here despite the economic downturn,...

A major New Years resolution for me this year is to blog at minimum once a week! During the last two months of 2008 I did not blog at all a...

Things are heating up even more on the smartphone front as RIM introduced the new BlackBerry Storm which will be available later this month....

T-Mobile introduced the first Google Android phone this week. This long anticipated new platform combines elements of the iPhone (touch scr...

My loyal blog readers will recall my frequent posts over the last few years regarding an independent travel agent point of sale (POS) applic...

At the NBTA conference American Express announced " plans to launch a business-to-business online networking community for the corpor...

There has been a lot of media buzz regarding the announcement that AA was pulling their inventory from meta-search engine Kayak. The news w...