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U.S. Senate rejects bill proposing biometric system to track foreign visitors
DestinationsRepublican U.S. Senator Marco Rubio, who is considered crucial for the success of an immigration law overhaul, vowed on Tuesday to fight for a biometric system to track foreigners leaving the country after a Senate panel rejected the provision, in part because it was too costly. Rubio and seven other Republican and Democratic senators, known [...]
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The travel industry maverick fighting to change how we buy airline tickets
TransportFarelogix CEO Jim Davidson learned persistence and salesmanship from the imperfect contents of a blue suitcase that he lugged door-to-door in his Elmira, New York, neighborhood at age 8 with his dog, Lucky, at his side. It was the 1960s and Davidson’s father, a pressman at Artistic Greeting Cards, would bring home birthday-card rejects that [...]
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A new take on the digital detox: Silicon Valley summer camp
DigitalA summer camp for adults where activities include “truth or dare, laughing contests and sneaking out at night” sounds, at best, like a remake of that 1969 classic Carry on Camping. In fact it’s the very latest holiday concept aimed at IT geeks and stressed-out Silicon Valley execs in the birthplace of high-tech: California. For [...]
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Marriott to outsource hundreds of tech jobs
DigitalMarriott International Inc. will cut “hundreds” of jobs in its corporate information technology department in Bethesda, a company executive confirmed late Friday. The Bethesda hotel giant announced the cuts to Marriott employees this week in presentations by senior IT management on the company’s plans to restructure its information technology operations.
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Hyatt tests high-tech innovations on real guests at ‘hotel labs’
RoomsHyatt is taking some fascinating initiatives to cater to a modern, high-tech audience—most notably, setting up eight properties as “lab hotels” throughout the world. Four of the hotels are in the U.S. and the rest are in cities like Dehli, Hong Kong and London. And it as at these hotels where John Prusnick, director of [...]
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Chic no-frills hotels focus on getting travelers rested and on their way for less
RoomsThe Alt Hotel brand is a part of a new niche that also includes such soon-to-be-household names including citizenM, easyHotel, the Pod Hotel and Yotel. Catering almost exclusively to the aptly dubbed “no-frills chic” audience, these brands focus on delivering minimalist product with several near-universally appealing services and all for a competitive rate. Apart from [...]
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St. Petersburg, Florida gets high-tech to fix its chronic traffic problem
TransportAbout 58,500 vehicles drive daily along State Road 686, one of Pinellas County’s most congested east-west routes. Relief for frustrated motorists could come as soon as early as 2014, when the road will be linked to the county’s Intelligent Transportation System, or ITS, which traffic planners say will mean less time idling at red lights [...]
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The super cool glow-in-the-dark highway that Americans can only dream of driving on
TransportIt’s one thing for the rest of the world to have way cooler trains than us. America has chosen car culture, for better or worse. But now comes word that the Netherlands is building way awesomer highways, while ours are stuck in the 20th Century. The Netherlands! If this isn’t a wake-up call for the United States [...]
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How technology has shaped leading global cities in 2012
DigitalElectric City, the 2012 edition of LSE Cities’ conference series, takes place today and tomorrow at the London School of Economics and Deutsche Bank’s Alfred Herrhausen Society.
This year’s event is focusing on the different ways in which urban societi…
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A look at secret tech lab that’s turning Peninsula Hotels into a connected travelers’ dream
DigitalNot only did the Peninsula Hotels’ flagship pioneer such in-room conveniences as bathtub-side telephones and bedroom control panels, but it’s one of the few hotel groups to have its own in-house tech development team. Its top-secret tech laboratory houses a team of engineers dedicated to developing the brand’s gadgets. As part of a 450 million [...]
