Not so cryptic from Tripology – map giant Rand McNally is the buyer

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Either Rand McNally is the buyer of Tripology or chief executive John Peters has made a bizarre faux pas.

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Day Three of Four – How to Create an iPhone App

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Client and server development – These elements are seen as separate parts of the process but are obviously very complementary.

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Travelport dumps TravelClick as the GDS world watches

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Travelport’s announcement that it is bringing all of its GDS advertising business in-house — and it is the first major GDS to do so — is a fairly momentous development because it breaks TravelClick’s near monopoly on green-screen advertising.

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Priorities for metasearch – Skyscanner and Swoodoo say booking way down the list

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The chatter generated by Kayak when it announced it is considering adding a booking element into its model appears not to have inspired others to think the same.

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All aboard — Amtrak set to rail about this or that on Twitter

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Amtrak, the federally funded rail line operating in 46 states, launched a Twitter account, @AmtrakUSA, the other day and is trying to get its social-media act together.

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Tripology: The deal is done

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Tripology, which ran out of funding early in 2010 and signed a letter of intent with an unidentified buyer, now says “the deal is done.”

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American Airlines has exit clause in HP reservations system contract

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With American Airlines and HP having just signed a contract for HP to build a new reservations system, called Jetstream, for the airline, it now turns out that American has an exit clause in the event it gets cold feet about the massive project, according to a source.

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Live Blogging PhoCusWright@ITB

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Tnooz, PhoCusWright and others live blogging from ITB in Berlin.

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Making car hire sexy through Microsoft Surface, Europcar driving forward

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The ongoing overhaul of the Europcar online presence has taken an interesting new turn with the launch of a platform for use on Microsoft Surface in airports.

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Australia Travel Site Crunch: Data Week End March 6 2010

Most popular travel websites in Australia for the week ending March 6 2010.

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