Sabre says new desktop readies agents — and airlines — for ancillary services

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Sabre’s new agency desktop, unveiled this morning, enables travel agents to shop by total price, including fees for checked bags and premium seats, and its arrival sends this message to airlines — we can handle ancillary services, so bring them on.

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TLabs Showcase – Stay.com

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TLabs Showcase focus on startups featuring Norway-based Stay.com.

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Ebookers launches possibly the most difficult World Cup competition ever

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Fun idea from European online travel agency Ebookers – although one game behind already – which could either be a social hit or as disappointing as an English goalkeeping fumble.

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IBM agrees to acquire Coremetrics for Web analytics

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IBM agreed to acquire Coremetrics, a Web analytics firm with 2,100 global clients, including Holiday Inn and Virgin Atlantic.

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Most popular UK travel websites – June 12 2010

Most popular travel websites in the UK for the week ending June 12 2010.

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TLabs Showcase – TripCraft

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TLabs Showcase focus on startups featuring Texas, US-based TripCraft.

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Sabre launches new desktop, Sabre Red Workspace, and a blog

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Sabre launched a Sabre Red blog and a new agency desktop, the Sabre Red Workspace

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Florida Keys tourist board posts weekly videos to clear up Gulf oil spill inaccuracies

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If a picture is worth a thousands words, then weekly videos showing vacationers frolicking at Florida Keys beaches, with no traces of the Gulf oil spill in sight, must count for a whole lot more.

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Malaysia Airlines turns iPads into kiosks at Kuala Lumpur railway station

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Airlines are not only thinking about how to use Apple iPads as in-flight entertainment – Malaysia Airlines has installed devices at the capital’s main railway station.

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Spot the difference between two tour operator websites running trips to Nepal

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Not uncommon but a very live example of wholesale theft of content and functionality from travel websites by mysterious folk intent on masquerading as another business.

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