Travel Technology

I generally do not blog about my own personal travel experiences, but I felt compelled to do so after my family's recent trip to Hawaii...

We've all read about the value of user generated content (UGC) and viral marketing. Unfortunately the best intentions do not always pro...

One of the future trends identified in the PhoCusWright mobile research was the use of mobile devices to augment reality. Layar a browser a...

Apple has filled patents for fingerprint recognition system for the iPhone. This may have major implications for m-commerce and security as...

As a frequent traveler I am quite frustrated with the demise of Clear, the registered traveler program. I just signed up for Clear a few mo...

I am pleased to be helping my colleagues at PhoCusWright with the launch of the brand new technology tradeshow Travdex , May 5-7 2010 in At...

Last week I was in Dublin Ireland to participate in the Datalex Users Conference. Datalex is a long time client of Travel Tech Consulting. ...

I just completed an exhausting two week trip to the Middle East (Kuwait and Saudi Arabia), Dublin, Ireland and Washington DC. I thought I ...

Sabre has introduced a downloadable iPhone app that competes with TripIt . It has some similar features but unlike the email parsing capabil...

This image is an iPhone, right? Look again. This is an illegal iPhone copy made in China that I found was being sold in Dubai. A client ...

On a conference call discussing 1st quarter results with analysts, Gerard Arpey, CEO of American Airlines was asked" What kind of dist...

With Apple approaching 1 billion in downloaded apps, I thought it would be good time to take a look at the top 5 most popular free and paid...

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...