Discover music in the cloud with Air France’s branded app
Air France, the nation’s global airline carrier, is offering free music tracks to smartphone owners via augmented reality technology.The free to download app, “Music in the Sky,” requires users to...
View ArticleTravelog combines Instagram and Foursquare features for travel
With continuing excessive prices for international roaming, it's a challenge for any app aimed at international travellers to gain a mass audience.That's the quest Korean start-up CultStory has...
View ArticleDelta Airlines iPad app ushers in a new form of connected flight
In-keeping with its standing as the most connected American airline (it has more in-flight WiFi than any other carrier), Delta Airlines has launched a native iPad app as part of its recent technology...
View ArticleDelta pioneers technology to cure jetlag
The shower-type cubicle uses light technology to combat sleep issues such as jet lag, researched and co-created by Oxford University professor Russell Foster and Wieden+Kennedy New York. A user enters...
View ArticleTravel business can rediscover innovation by escaping its data rut
Are you envious of your friends’ Facebook beach photos? What if the travel industry could sense your pain, and ease it with a personalised discount on some flights of your own? Or maybe you’re already...
View ArticleIndustrial and travel industries are the volume drivers in big data
Google’s self-driving car isn’t anywhere near forecourts yet, and probably won’t be for some time, but already we’re chewing on its data emissions. The car will generate a gigabyte of data every single...
View ArticleHeathrow Airport tracking system helps passengers reach flights in time
As one of the world’s biggest and busiest airports, London Heathrow is looking at technology which will help it reduce the amount of flights that take of late due to missing and late passengers. Its...
View ArticleKippsy aims for boutique end of Airbnb-style community accommodation
Once upon a time the likes of Airbnb were but a quirky idea, using the notion of community and marketplace, to transform travel into a democratic and surprising experience that took the power away from...
View ArticleBrazilian mobile app uses GPS to allow bus snoozes
Brazilian bus snoozers no longer need to miss their stop with two new mobile apps- BusNap and Nao Durma no Ponto- that launched on Android this week.The concept is simple- passengers enter their...
View ArticleBrazilian app allows drivers to earn by giving lifts
Following on from the successes of Brazilian taxi apps (Safertaxi, Easytaxi, Taxibeat) Zaznu aims to make hitch hiking an experience for Brazil’s smart phone generation.Based on the American model...
View ArticleGetTaxi pushes its mobile and kiosk taxi service with mobile ads boost
The mobile phone is becoming the conduit for disruption and innovation across all sectors but where the mobile can provide a useful service, there’s more start-up activity, more investment and more...
View ArticleExplovia fuses mobile messaging with content to create a new style city guide
The travel guide format is tried and tested and as such has remained relatively unchanged for a long time. Big names in this space such as Time Out have responded to the mobile evolution with mobile...
View ArticleHailo's predicament shows disrupting industries can prove messy
When a start-up uses technology that disrupts an established industry, swooning headlines from the tech press follow, revenue often comes tumbling in and, most important of all, the target customer...
View ArticleBrazil’s EasyTaxi joins forces with China’s WeChat
One of Brazil’s most popular taxi apps. EasyTaxi has joined forces with China’s WhatsApp-style mobile messaging service WeChat so that users can organise taxis within the chatbox. The new feature was...
View ArticleTailor-made travel; from Foursquare to DELIAmsterdam
Travel is one of the businesses that first went online, dropping its people-fronted high street retail presence in favour of digital alternatives. It makes sense for travel; in an age of perfect...
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