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RSS hotels in newsTravelodge revamps website with £1m
News Alongside information about Travelodge hotels, the site provides surfers with information about attractions and events within the area they are researching and the opportunity to purchase tickets to shows, attractions and exhibitions in the area. [28 May 2008]
Oxford Hotels checks in revenue management system
News Oxford Hotels is to switch on a revenue management system for online bookings to its 44 properties. According to Oxford Hotels and Inns head of marketing and ecommerce, Boris Pontarollo, 40 per cent of its revenue comes from internet bookings. [19 Mar 2008]
London still wi-fi king of the world
News Hotels are also popular - accounting for almost one-third of global usage - and are becoming increasingly so, with 146 per cent growth on the same period last year. Back in 2007, silicon.com ran a 'Fair Wi-fi' campaign calling for hotels to eschew... [14 Mar 2008]
Intuit Mac bug creeps back through public wi-fi
News Users of a popular accounting package have been warned not to use the software at public wi-fi hotspots, such as those found in airports, coffee shops and hotels. Users of the 2006 Mac version of Intuit's QuickBooks software could find that a... [04 Jan 2008]
Microsoft still tinkering with Surface
News Now it estimates it will take until spring before the devices start showing up in locations such as Harrah's casinos, Sheraton hotels and T-Mobile retail locations. Although Microsoft is still getting plenty of "oohs" and "aahs" when it demos its... [09 Nov 2007]
BA to roll out email to workers' mobiles
News Staff access their email from home, hotels or dedicated kiosks deployed throughout the world's airports. British Airways plans to roll out corporate email to workers' mobile phones next year. The airline has been extending email connectivity to... [31 Oct 2007]
Nokia maps $8.1bn Navteq buy
News Using the handset's embedded software, consumers can view their current location on a map, search for destinations, find specific routes, or locate nearby services such as restaurants, hotels or shops. [02 Oct 2007]
Revealed: World's hottest wi-fi spots
News Wireless internet access is booming with more and more business users logging on in airports, cafés and hotels. Business travellers making the most of downtime at airports and hotels accounted for more than five out of every six wi-fi sessions... [20 Sep 2007]
Hotel business unifies service management
News The company operates 350 hotels for business guests in 20 countries, and its IT infrastructure is maintained by only 50 IT staff who support 5,000 IT users out of 12,000 staff.silicon.com Retail & Leisure [09 Aug 2007]
Internet NOC-ing shop opens in London
News With its Fair Wi-fi campaign silicon.com is looking to. Raise awareness of the problem of hotels overcharging Inform the hotel industry about the strength of public opinion opposed to excessive charging Encourage hotels... [12 Jun 2007]
Microsoft unveils touchscreen-PC-cum-tabletop
News Initially, Sheraton plans to have three Milan machines at hotels in Boston, Chicago and New York, with two in each lobby and one in the club lounge. The Microsoft Surface tabletop PC, for which Redmond has created both the hardware and software... [30 May 2007]
Top execs crave internet on the move
News There has also been a significant increase in wi-fi use in hotels, airports and train stations according to BT Openzone. Almost nine out of 10 (88 per cent) business travellers feel the need for constant access to their email and corporate IT... [08 May 2007]
Boo! Look who's back...
News One of the most high-profile failures of the dot-com crash has been relaunched.boo.com, which was originally an online fashion retailer when it fell into liquidation in 2000, has been relaunched as a social networking and travel booking site... [03 May 2007]
'Deluxe broadband' tempts hotel business customers
News Swisscom is piloting a premium service in 16 hotels throughout the Netherlands, with the hope of a more widespread rollout in June. In the cut-throat world of broadband connectivity, suppliers need more than just bandwidth to tempt customers into... [27 Apr 2007]
Fair Wi-fi: Angry guests to vote with their feet
News Hotels that persist in charging guests for wi-fi access are putting their long term business at risk as consumers become ever-more sensitive to the issue of rip-off pricing. The willingness of more customer-focused hotels to step in with free or... [02 Apr 2007]
