What you missed on Tnooz this week, Sunday 28 February to Saturday 6 March 2010:
Top three most commented articles this week:
- Orbitz founder Katz takes circuitous route to metasearch-engine NexTag
- Hotel door opening technology moving to mobile devices
- Shotgun or laser β the truth about looking for travel tech jobs
Controversial topic of the week:
Timewaster of the Week:
From TLabs:
And the rest (most recent first):
- Peter Jackson reveals winner of New Zealand tourism film prize
- GDS Bitesize β service news, agreements, products from Amadeus, Travelport and Sabre
- Hong Kong Travel Site Crunch: Data Week End February 27 2010
- Ctrip may go shopping for acquisitions too
- TSA expands naked scanners, swabbing at checkpoints, boarding areas
- Are Priceline, Expedia battling over acquisition warchests?
- Wyndham credit-card breach occurred during security upgrade
- TripIt pledges faster development work and marketing with new funds
- Tourism groups concerned about broadband infrastructure
- Expedia beefs up web advertising plans across Europe
- American Airlines-HP sign Jetstream contract
- Orbitz adds Gerstner to board, makes Ebookers shortfall payments
- GDSs unite for aid scheme, Bill Clinton, Spike Lee and Samuel L Jackson approve
- Travelscream to release iPhone app for hotel ancillary services
- Ebookers moves alongside European rivals and axes hotel charges
- Priceline offers a bounty β no, not on the Travelocity Roaming Gnome
- SimonSeeks plots next stage, marketing campaign expected
- Super Bowl-advertising HomeAway goes downfield for BedandBreakfast.com acquisition
- Australia Travel Site Crunch: Data Week End February 27 2010
- Continental Airlines hopes to get a leg up with fees for premium seats
- Will Priceline come back to the field?
- Poll says Americans, Europeans donβt shy away from airport body scanners
- PlanetEye and TripTelevision seal video and geo-tagging partnership
- No proposed change to BBC ownership of Lonely Planet
- BootsnAll joins ranks of sites pledging to boost travel writing
- Rolling Bitesize Job News β latest appointments, moves, restructures
- WeJustGotBack Consulting advising DMOs, CVBs, hotels on e-marketing for family travel
- US Travel Site Crunch: Data Week End February 27 2010
- TripIt maps employee travel with TripIt Groups
- Transparency a bugaboo at pest-control conference for hotels
- WorldMate gets new CEO, pushes mobile deals with airlines, GDSs, hotels
- UK Travel Site Crunch: Data Week End February 27 2010
- Travel illness doctor launches mobile app after book success
- AirTran poised to drive direct traffic via American Express deal
- Continental sends important email blast, recipients around the world confused
- Rearden Commerce claims better mobile-mashup
- When travel technology companies also turn into marketing firms β Travelport and Avvio
- SeaWorld posts video tribute to trainer
Previous Week in Travel Tech:
- February 21-27 2010
- February 14-20 2010
- February 7-13 2010
- January 31-February 6 2010
- January 24-30 2010
- January 17-23 2010
- January 10-16 2010
- January 3-9 2010
- December 27-January 2 2010
- December 20-26 2009
- December 13-19 2009
- December 6-12 2009
- November 29-December 5 2009
- November 22-28 2009
- November 15-21 2009
- November 8-14 2009
- November 1-7 2009
- October 25-31 2009
- October 18-24 2009
- October 11-17 2009
- October 3-10 2009
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