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Posted Mar 8, 2010
On any typical morning at Luton the airport bustles with people rushing for flights. However the contrast with say 10 years ago or more is startling. It is the dress of the passengers.
Posted Mar 6, 2010
Forrester analysts Josh Bernoff recently posted a blog regarding the end of the golden age of the Web and the rise of the Splinternet. As it name implies, the new environment consists of multiple devices with content and audiences fragmented across these platforms.
Posted Mar 4, 2010
When I asked TripIt execs last summer what kind of volume discounts their travel management company partners can offer clients on the Pro version of the company's itinerary solution, they didn't say. But according to Salt Lake City-based TMC Christopherson Andavo's blog: "We can get you a huge discount on your TripIt Pro annual rate (huge = almost half off)." The hottest tech story in corporate travel right now is the race to one-up traditional emailed itineraries with robust, interactive applications, and investors have taken notice with a fresh $7 million of investment in TripIt, announced Thursday.
Posted Jan 25, 2010
In what can only be assumed to be a full frontal attack on the Crackberry dominance for the enterprise, both iPhone and Google's Android operating system are making headway into the corporate enterprise. IBM and Lotus Notes (remember them? yes they are still out there) have already released a secure version of a remote tool for integration called IBM Traveler (note the spelling!) for iPhone users. eWeek is now reporting that IBM will release an Android version for the future in likely "2H 2010."
Posted Jan 7, 2010
In preparing for ProMedia.travel Content Solutions' upcoming webinar, 10 Top Travel Management Tactics for 2010, I surveyed registrants as they signed up to find out what trends, tools and technologies they expect will influence their travel management programs most in 2010. My technology limited me to seven choices (including "other"), but here is what I have learned so far from our current 276 registrants.
Posted Nov 10, 2009
Most companies are talking about the need for change based on external conditions, yet they are not changing fast enough to address gaps and capitalize on opportunities. Investing in effective employee mobility programs can show a wonderful return. It is also an investment in your most important asset – your employees.
Posted Oct 7, 2009
The Beat readers voted for TripIt cofounder and president Gregg Brockway to present his views on current and future travel technologies as a keynote presentation at The Beat Live in Austin Sept. 23. An excerpt of Brockway's presentation follows and his presentation deck can be found here.
Posted Oct 3, 2009
The leading mobile players are the handset guys and the networks.
Up till now they have disdained the travel market plumbing for the sexier applications such as music. However I have always believed that the real deployment of smart handsets would occur when the applications moved into being more generic.
Posted Aug 18, 2009
In a recent article from Media Post a software application developer from Istanbul, Turkey attending a conference in San Jose, California, voiced his opinion that the US does not understand the importance of the Mobile Web. This article reminded me of the panel discussion I moderated at the PhoCusWright @ITB conference in Berlin earlier this year where the subject of downloadable applications was debated against the advantage of the Mobile Web with a panel of European mobile travel experts.
Posted Jul 8, 2009
One of the future trends identified in the PhoCusWright mobile research was the use of mobile devices to augment reality. Layar, a browser available on the Google Android platform, has announced the opening of its API to a select group of developers.
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