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Hotel TV media provider uses cloud-hosted weather and flight apps
A cloud-hosted weather app may be coming soon to your hotel room TV. How appropriate. It’s all part of LodgeNet’s Envision HD interactive TV platform, which was recently installed in The Chatwal New...
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The curious and different faces of a travel gatekeeper CEO
In the normal course of events, being a CEO usually means you hobnob with other CEOs, sit on boards and the like. If you have expertise in an area, you often want to be associated with others in...
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Road warriors to get mobile, social and cloud services in one place
More integration news this morning as Concur announces a deal to combine its travel and expense management technology with salesforce.com‘s cloud computing and CRM services. The result is concurforce,...
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How Google Apps can help skinny startups and big travel brands
NB: This is a guest post Lee Stretton from SEO and digital marketing advisors AddPeople. Forget Google and its push into the travel industry for a moment – less talked about is its drive to define how...
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Skyscanner takes to the cloud to help rapid growth
Flight metasearch service Skyscanner has appointed Iomart Hosting to handle its cloud hosting requirements. The company has moved to the cloud to relieve pressure on its servers and better manage the...
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Why the future of online hotel marketing is cloud-based utility computing
NB: This is guest article by Brandon Dennis, director of marketing at Buuteeq. Technology advances incredibly fast, not least in an industry such as travel which has seen incredible levels of...
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Clerk wants to bring the wonders of the cloud to hotels
TLabs Showcase on travel startups featuring Chile-based Clerk, a cloud-based technology platform for small and medium-size hotels. Who and what are you (including personnel and backgrounds)? Clerk,...
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HP storms ahead with airline cloud services as Interjet trains pilots
Airline reservations systems and IT providers are hustling to bring everything from PCI compliance to printing at the airport into the cloud and, along those lines, HP Enterprise Services introduced HP...
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How a storm in the cloud brought Room 77 and other websites back down to earth
Last week, hotel booking service Room 77 was knocked offline in a mammoth cloud-computing outage that also crashed the websites of dozens of companies. Some very big players, too, such as Yelp, due to...
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Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud hiccup takes down Airbnb, Foursquare, and other...
Many digital companies, including travel startups like Airbnb and Foursquare, have been knocked offline for hours during the business day today. The startups rely on web hosting and data services that...
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There is a lot more to The Cloud than just a fancy data center
I was catching up on RSS today and read a piece by Alex Bainbridge on Tnooz about the Top Eight Travel Industry Battles. A good article overall, but battle #3 jumped out at me and I guess I’m ready to...
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A tech reality: If you don’t like change, you’re going to like irrelevance...
Managing change is hard. Many companies and even whole industries have been blind-sided by new entrants who are empowered by technology and changing consumer behavior rather than old business models...
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The cloud and mobile – an unhappy marriage despite early promise of love and...
The so-called cloud and mobile should be a shining example of a marriage made in heaven, blessed by the gods and beloved by all. For years we have been hearing that THIS is the year for mobile in...
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Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) – growing, but leagues behind packaged tools...
Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) was probably the Big Data of the early-2000s – at term bounded about to describe a concept which actually had its roots going back decades. In short, SaaS is a cover-all...
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Back to school with Big Data – how the web defines it
SYSTEMS: Ask five people to outline what they think “Big Data” is and you may well get five different answers, such is either the confusion or fluid nature of what the concept actually is. Perhaps...
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How an airport took a deep breath and axed 200 servers
SYSTEMS: Moving to the cloud, as the saying goes, is an enormous step for any type of organisation, let alone one as complex as one of the busiest airports in Europe. But this is what London Gatwick...
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SYSTEMS – Product news, launches and more – May 2013
The latest systems news, launches and more from around the travel, tourism and hospitality industry in May 2013. Thursday 30 May 2013: InterGlobe Technology Quotient (ITQ) has announced Travelport...
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Know your SaaS from your PaaS from your IaaS [INFOGRAPHIC]
There’s been so much talk about Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) in recent years that stalwarts Platform-as-a-Service and Infrastructure-as-a-Service rarely get a look in. Whilst Salesforce.com, arguably...
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SYSTEMS – Product news, launches and more – June 2013
The latest systems news, launches and more from around the travel, tourism and hospitality industry in June 2013. Thursday 27 June 2013: Mobikon Asia has launched a restaurant table reservation portal...
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Hold that thought about Big Data in travel – what about Little Data?
NB: This is a viewpoint by Michael De Boer, strategic marketing director of Boelter+Lincoln. While the caging of Big Data by business and government is everywhere in the news lately, it is the use of...
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