Posts Tagged ‘travel’

Hipmunk is a flight search and booking app available for both Android and iPhone or you can use their web site to book flights from a desktop computer. One of the unique features of Hipmunk is that they sort results by “agony,” which is a combination or price, flight duration, and number of stopovers, and [...]

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Hipmunk brought its flight search app to Android. Like the iPhone version and the website, the new free Android app incorporates an agony factor when sorting flights. It also indicates if WiFi is available in-flight. Once a flight is identified, it can be booked right from the app, from a desktop computer or emailed to [...]

If you travel by airplane you will find a flight tracking app a useful addition to your smartphone. FlightAware is one of the most popular flight tracking web sites on the Internet and they have released free versions of their mobile app for all of the major smartphone platforms.

At the beginning of the summer I wrote an article on five Android apps that I find most useful for travelers. Top on my list is TripIt, which retrieves and stores travel itineraries. A new Android version of TripIt has been released with user interface updates so that more information displays on the screen.

British Airways is testing iPads with 100 cabin crew members. But, United Airlines is going all in with 11,000 iPads being deployed to United and Continental pilots.

As HP drops out of the tablet race (among other things), it isn’t hard to declare Apple’s iPad the victor (as if that was in doubt). Its next conquest? How about in the hands of airline cabin crews to profile (in the customer service sense) passengers.

We learned back in May about American Airlines testing in-flight WiFi video streaming.

Did you know that more Americans have Facebook accounts than have passports? A fun new infographic from social travel platform Tripl that illustrates the ways in which social media is impacting the travel industry reveals this and other interesting facts.

The desire to e-communicate while traveling is a big one. There was a time when we searched for hotels that provided phones with pass-thru jacks for analog modems. Then, the search turned to hotel rooms with Ethernet jacks. Then, the search expanded to businesses of all kinds that provided WiFi (preferably free). The latest e-communication [...]

If you drive far from home this summer, you may find yourself in areas where hands-free cell phone laws are different than your home town. Griffin Technology’s new free iOS app can help you learn what local handsfree driving lawas may be in effect where you currently are driving. Drive Aware. Drive Compliant. DriveSafe. It [...]