Penny and Leonard having babies – AKA a smart and beautiful strategy for hotels

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Cast your minds back to the pilot episode of the hugely successful US sitcom The Big Bang Theory, featuring geeky experimental physicist Leonard Hofstadter.

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The Scan: VirtualTourist seeks 8th Wonder, Knok raises, Cleartrip’s app and more travel technology news

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Virtual Tourist, Apple-WifiSlam, Cleartrip, United Airlines, Lufthansa, Monarch Airlines, Knok, Comcast Business Hospitality, Hotwire, Dolphin Dynamics, TigerBay, Egencia, Concur and InterContinental Hotels Group all make our round up of travel tech news

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IHG unleashes (member-only) free wifi to every hotel, same as hosting population of Russia online

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“World First” claim coming up from InterContinental Hotel Group after revealing today that each of its properties around the world will be offering up free wifi to guests.

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InterContinental Hotels Group opens up properties to online guest reviews

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A slab of Power to the People from InterContinental Hotels Group after it announced a new system to allow guests to leave online reviews against hotel properties.

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Investing in hotel technology – guest needs versus franchise demands

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It’s a dilemma that’s been simmering under the surface of the industry for years and one that shows no sign of abating…

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Mind the gap: the mobile traveler leads the way, but who will follow?

Mind the gap between consumers and travel marketers

The path to understanding the evolving mobile travel landscape is a journey that involves both figuring out how to make money and staying current with connected consumers adopting and using the latest technologies before, during and after travel.

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Regulator accuses Expedia, Booking.com and IHG in hotel competition infringement probe

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Two years in the making, UK regulator The Office of Fair Trading has cited Expedia, Booking.com and InterContinental Hotels in its investigation into fixing hotel rates.

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Booking.com moves up rankings, nestles in with stalwarts – Top US travel sites, April 7 2012

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Priceline-owned Booking.com is beginning to feature heavily in the list of top travel websites in the US and is now sitting alongside the likes of Hotels.com and Marriott.

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Room Key launches in new four markets, but Hotelicopter team start bailing out

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Big chain-backed hotel search engine Room Key is spreading into new territories this week with news that it is opening sites for consumers in the UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.

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Beyond the Year of the Mobile – takeaways so far in 2012

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Last week EyeforTravel held its inaugural Mobile conference alongside its fifth annual Social Media conference, with over 300 people in attendance, including myself.

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