Posts Tagged ‘ PhoCusWright ’

Top 10 Travel Technology Trends Webinar Slides/Replay Available Here

Last week I presented on a webinar alongside PhoCusWright analyst Bob Offut, entitled “Travel Innovation and Technology Trends: 2010 and Beyond”, sponsored by my company Ness Software Product Labs.  I’m providing links to both the PDF of the slides and the replay of the webinar via WebEx below. In the webinar, Bob talks about the Top [ READ MORE ]

Video: Thought on TRAVDEX, Travel Industry Trends

Last week Ness Technologies exhibited at PhoCusWright’s TRAVDEX trade show in Atlanta.  On the second day of the show I was interviewed for my reflections on the show and my views on some of the major technology trends going on in the travel industry. I was mostly hoping to avoid an Albert-Brooks-in-Broadcast-News moment, so I would [ READ MORE ]

10 Things That Caught My Eye — Week of 4-12-10

Nothing pithy to kick off the list today, so here it goes: A lot of chatter about  Twitter’s first Chirp conference. Mashable review of 6 Twitter App models that stand a chance,  and a list of takeaways from GigaOM.  But best of all is a post by Dan Howlett on how Seesmic CEO Loic LeMuir either [ READ MORE ]

Top 10 Things that Caught My Eye — Week of 3/29/10

Back from a quick trip to Miami for a sales call (I know, it sounds terrible). But here’s what I found interesting and hope you do too. In a tip-of-the-cap to Spinal Tap, I’ve taken the list up to 11 for this week: Excellent article by Timothy O’Neill-Dunne on how technology is transforming the travel industry PhoCusWright [ READ MORE ]

Kayak’s Ever-Evolving Business

Travel industry analyst firm, PhoCusWright, recently posted that “Kayak Takes on the Big Guys“, noting the apparent changes in their business model, and poses the question whether Kayak can still be considered a meta-search player.  Kayak’s introduction of ‘booking facilitation’ and ‘Private Sales’ are pushing them closer to becoming an OTA in some aspects.  However, [ READ MORE ]

OMG, PCW Missed the Point

Now I may be relatively new to the travel industry, but I’m not new to controversy, so let me get this off my chest. I like many others were glued to their computers listening to live audio streams of yesterday’s Apple iPad announcement, tweeting away.  Now I won’t get into the whole debate as to whether [ READ MORE ]

Ease of Development v. Ease of Use — Mobile Edition

Today I read a good post by CrispWireless CTO, Xavier Facon, entitled “Apps Call, but will your phone answer? Maybe not.” The post was a response to an MSNBC CES article bemoaning the fact that many apps exist on certain platforms, but not others.  This of course is not news.  Apple’s iPhone had 100,000, Google’s [ READ MORE ]

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