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Virgin America announces in-flight entertainment revamp for 2012

, Sep 13th 2011 Discuss [1]

Virgin America has announced a new partnership with Lufthansa today to bring a major upgrade to their already tech-forward in-flight entertainment system called RED. The revamp to the in-flight entertainment system will include larger touchscreen HD monitors that are internet-capable and also allow passengers to connect their own devices via WiFi. Read The Full Story

Travelocity Exec scooped up by HotelTonight

, Sep 8th 2011 Discuss [0]

A fledgling travel app called HotelTonight has managed to land a new Chief Marketing Officer that is none other than Travelocity exec Beth Murphy. This is a huge win for the startup as Murphy brings a whole lot of experience from her leadership roles at Yahoo, Digg, Visa, Intuit, and of course Travelocity, which is right up the same alley. Read The Full Story

Google Maps Updated to Include Weather Conditions

, Aug 18th 2011 Discuss [1]

Hear that? That's the sound of Google making another type of online service obsolete. Google today announced an update to Google maps that, working with Weather.com, will show you what kind of conditions you'll be looking at for your weekend trip to the mountains. All you've got to do is open up Google Maps, type in your address, and select the Weather layer from the list of options in the upper right-hand corner of your screen. Current temperatures and conditions are shown all around the world and Google hopes this will make travel easier (or at least a bit better planned out) than ever before. Read The Full Story

Google’s New Travel Search Products Powered By ITA Coming Soon

, Jul 5th 2011 Discuss [2]

Besides all the awesome Google+ features, the search giant may be serving up some nifty travel search features very soon. Google's $700 million acquisition of travel software company ITA was approved back in April and we are now finally hearing about some of the first travel search features that may come of that purchase. Read The Full Story

American Airlines replaces in-flight screens with Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 10.1

, Jun 13th 2011 Discuss [1]

Up in the air, Junior Android! Samsung is taking to the skies with its Galaxy Tab 10.1, inking a deal with American Airlines to put 6,000 of the Honeycomb slates into the premium cabins of select transcontinental and international flights. Rather than the existing in-flight entertainment system, AA will use specially customized Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablets bearing extra memory. Read The Full Story

Magellan Reveals WiFi enabled RoadMate 5175T-LM GPS

, Jun 10th 2011 Discuss [1]

With the adoption of smartphones, many consumers are relying on their phone to direct them to their destination rather than a GPS. Why clutter your life with two devices when you can easily make do with one? This is no doubt one of the reasons Magellan is rolling out the RoadMate 5175T-LM; it has built in WiFi, a web browser, and a new more robust trip planner called TourDirector. A portable web browser with no data plan does sound appealing, but can these new features keep the GPS competitive in the evolving smartphone world? Read The Full Story

Google ITA Travel Search Acquisition Approved But Conditions Apply

, Apr 8th 2011 Discuss [0]

Google's acquisition of travel software company ITA for $700 million has just been approved today by the U.S. Justice Department after 8 months of deliberation. It was a difficult decision because the acquisition could obliterate competition in the travel search industry. Travel websites such as Kayak and TripAdvisor depend on the ITA software and fear they would lose access to it once Google acquires the company. Luckily for them, the Justice Department has set some conditions in their approval. Read The Full Story

Microsoft Bing Partners With Kayak For Improved Travel Search

, Mar 4th 2011 Discuss [0]

Microsoft may be leading at this point in its battle with Google to see who has the better travel search. With Google's acquisition of ITA, a travel industry software company, still pending, Microsoft is moving full steam ahead announcing a partnership with the travel search engine company Kayak. Read The Full Story

Bing Launches Autosuggest Flight and Price Predictor Travel Search

, Feb 25th 2011 Discuss [0]

Microsoft's Bing already has an edge over Google when it comes to travel search, but now it really ups the game with new Price Predictor and Autosuggest Flight Prices features. This improvement makes it really easy to find the best priced flight just by typing in your destination into the search box. Read The Full Story

Room 77 Finds You The Best Hotel Room, Not Just Best Hotel

, Feb 24th 2011 Discuss [0]

Travel planning is being kicked up a notch. Instead of just searching for the best hotel, you can now search for the best hotel room. A startup by the name Room 77 is building a database of more than 425,000 hotel rooms at 2500 properties with information such as room category, square footage, bed type, and even proximity to an elevator. But most interestingly, is its tie in with Google Earth to bring you Room View, which simulates the actual view you would see from a particular hotel room. Read The Full Story

$100 Gets You a Mysterious Package Aboard Any Airplane (so Long as You’re a TSA Agent)

, Jan 18th 2011 Discuss [2]

So you're ready to get aboard a flight and you've decided you'd like to place your bag aboard a different flight. Why would you want to do that? You're a TSA agent and you'd like to test the system with $100 bill. You take your totally mysterious bag, you head over to a JetBlue flight, you hand that one hundred dollar bill to the doorman, and poof! You've got that bag aboard, unaccompanied by you. Read The Full Story

Lonely Planet Gives Several City Guide Apps Away Free During 2010 Holiday Season

, Dec 21st 2010 Discuss [2]

If you've ever traveled outside of your own country (or state or city for that matter), you know the importance of the most important tool you can have: the city guide. I personally have gone through a few cities overseas with nothing but a map, a backpack full of scraps of paper, and my wallet, but once I had the chance to grab a city guide booklet (this was back before smartphones), my whole experience changed. Flash forward to today when we've got these tiny screens we can keep in our pockets, and Lonely Planet has a collection of city guides you can grab and keep handy at the flick of the finger! And what's the big news today? Lonely Planet is giving away a batch of big cities away during this holiday season, totally freaking free of charge! Read The Full Story
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