Marriott International takes on search engines over trademark practices

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Marriott International doesn’t take kindly to Google, Yahoo and Bing selling the hoteliers trademarks as keywords to competitors and expects the search engines to change their practices.

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Day Four of Four – How to Create an iPhone App

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Testing and QA – User cases are key to preparation during the final phase before app submission.

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The GDS wars, broken models and metasearch issues — JetBlue-style

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In the last round of GDS negotiations in 2007, airlines such as American Airlines and Delta Airlines stridently warned that they would pull out of major GDSs if the carriers didn’t get their way.

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Seven minutes with Olaf Gueldner, MD Travelport Europe

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Olaf Gueldner, manager director and president of Travelport in Europe, answers three key questions about the business and the wider GDS sector.

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Game-changer? Smartphone manufacturers looking to disrupt travel distribution

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Apple changed the music industry with iTunes. Might smartphone manufacturers like Samsung, Nokia, Motorola and RIM or mobile operating-system providers like Apple, Google or Microsoft disrupt the travel industry by weaving themselves into the fabric of travel distribution?

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Live Blogging Bloggers’ Summit@ITB

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Tnooz, PhoCusWright and others live blogging from the Bloggers’ Summit at ITB in Berlin.

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Hong Kong Travel Site Crunch: Data Week End March 6 2010

Most popular travel websites in the Hong Kong region for the week ending March 6 2010.

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Rand McNally acquires Tripology, maps quest to become online travel company

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John Peters, the president and CEO of Tripology, says Rand McNally acquired Tripology on Friday as the 154-year-old map and travel guide company transforms itself into an online and location-based online travel company.

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Google kaboom — disruption coming from search, video, mobile, cloud

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Dennis Woodside has some simple advice for travel marketers who will have to try to cope with the coming disruption — “dog-fooding.”

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Google exec on Buzz, Super Bowl ad, behavioral advertising, tablets

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Google’s Dennis Woodside says the company rolled out Google Buzz too abruptly and likely won’t introduce other new products in a similar manner.

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