Insights into how technology and the outsourcing of R&D are changing the software industry

JD Power’s survey on hotel satisfaction is out, Facebook rolls out Questions, Google “borrows” content from Yelp!, Apple adds a few more details to a proposed iTravel app and a few other things that caught my eye:

1. Excellent, excellent post by RedMonk’s Stephen O’Grady on whether Open Source in is maturity, growth or decline.
2. The Big 3 GDSs issue no-response response to Open AXIS. The closest thing to an answer was that they want one standard to rule them all. They just didn’t commit to whose.
3. Norm Rose’s take on the Google/ITA deal.
4. Facebook rolls out Questions to the masses. Tnooz’s Kevin May explores what this might mean for the travel industry.
5. ZDNet’s Phil Wainwright provides a framework of how to choose the right Cloud Computing platform.
6. Google introduces location-aware mobile display ads. Google claims that location-based mobile ads deliver an 8% increase in click through rates.  Should be some significant benefits for the travel industry.
7. New patent details indicate that Apple is planning to enable ancillary services booking from their rumored iTravel app.
8. As location-based content becomes more important for the travel and hospitality industry, Google ramps up its location content under Google Places using Yelp! content.  Understandably, Yelp’s  CEO is not exactly pleased.
9. Steve Cheney has some thoughts about why Apple should buy Infineon’s wireless chipset business to enhance its mobile device business on the (relative) cheap.
10. According to a recent JD Power survey, about 6 in 10 hotel guests made their reservations online in 2010, a 7.4% increase.  And the data suggests that they are more likely to book direct from the branded hotel website rather than an independent travel site.