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Images: Eyephone explains where you are

The eyePhone is a device for tourists which uses satellite navigation and advanced object recognition to identify a location from a picture. by Andy Smith

Tags: satellite, camera, mobile phone, recognition, tourism

Image galleries 2008-04-14

World Travel 4 Screensaver (zip)

World Travel 4 screensaver contains hi resolution, crystal clear photos of places from around our globe. Tourism is travel for predominantly recreational or leisure purposes or the provision of services to support this leisure travel. World Travel 4 Screensaver was designed to be a wallpaper screensaver with super high resolution,...

Tags: Screensaver, Photograph, Tourism

Software downloads 2007-11-29

Google City Guides? Google SERPs feature tourism refinements

Google “City Guide” type searches are being promoted at Google.com.Searches by city name at Google.com yield SERPs featuring tourism related search refinement options. Perhaps Google is considering a Google Tourism vertical or a Google Travel vertical.Presently, a search on a city such as “Chicago” yields a SERP with a featured...

Tags: refinement option, Google Inc.

Blog posts 2006-07-30

Vermont Tourism Website Builds Business With Location Solution

Vermont's Department of Tourism and Marketing is responsible for promoting statewide businesses by providing useful tools and information to visitors. Tourism is one of Vermont's key industries. Restrictions on billboards and roadside signs were not helping statewide businesses, many of which are rural and hard to find, link up with...

Tags: Vermont, Microsoft Corp., Web Site, Tourism, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Productivity, Internet

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Can your insurance force you out of the country?

So long as tourism remains a choice, it's hard to see a problem with it. But what if it's no longer a choice? by Dana Blankenhorn

Tags: Insurance, Financial Planning, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Finance, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-07-02

Year-round school

Year-round schoolyes short breaks are acceptablewell i do agreee that short breaks are better option well i'm a tech too who implement CAE Computer Aided Educationin schools, wat i realize that after installing & implementing the sw the teachers come up with many suggestion and correction so they wouldn't wait...

Tags: OK Here, school year, Year-Round, Year-round school

Discussion threads 2008-06-24

Alabama's Broadband Tide

BROADBAND INITIATIVE – If you really want anywhere access to the Internet, you understand the value and you'll pay for it. A DirecWay dish on an RV at Gulf State Park, on the so-called "Redneck Riviera," at Orange Beach, Alabama. ORANGE BEACH, Ala. – No more...

Tags: Initiative, Broadband, Alabama, DirecWay, RV, Johnson, Broadband Internet, Network Technology, TVs, Telecommunications, Tv & Home Theater, Networking, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2008-06-18

Google's Brin plots space jaunt; Is this a problem?

Google's Brin plots space jaunt; Is this a problem?Other IT space tourists......include Microsoft Word creator Charles Simonyi and Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth.To infinity and beyondWhy not? Risk taking is hard-wired into many of the folks that are creating wealth in this industry. And the track record for space flight so...

Tags: Insurance, Investment, Financial Planning, Risk-taking, Brin, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-06-11

Google's Brin plots space jaunt; Is this a problem?

Google co-founder Sergey Brin plans to head to space. According to the New York Times, Brin, an investor in Space Adventures, a Virginia-based space tourism outfit, is likely to hitch a ride on a Russian Soyuz en route to the International Space Station in 2011. ...

Tags: Google Inc., Sergey Brin, Virgin, RealMoney, Financial Accounting, Insurance, Financial Planning, Finance, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-06-11

Google vs. educational databases

Google vs. educational databasesGoogle vs. Educational Databases: Some CommentsINTERNET SEARCH TOOLS AND SERVICES :DATABASES :OPINIONS:Google vs. Educational Databases: Some CommentsThis post is a response to a discussion on ZDNet Education cited in thispost on Net-Gold:INTERNET SEARCH TOOLS AND SERVICES :DATABASES:Google vs. Educational DatabasesThere are a number of observations that can...

Tags: Storage, Databases, JStor, database, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-05-27

Florida going slowly solar?

FGCU's Library and caption as shown on the university's website. The "Sunshine State" is going to put some of that sunshine to use for something besides orange juice, tourism and melanoma. How about a little electricity? Or in the case of Florida Gulf...

Tags: Farm, Florida Gulf Coast University, Florida, FGCU, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Internet, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-05-18

Texas oilman strikes blow for wind, predicts ever higher oil prices

Texas oilman strikes blow for wind, predicts ever higher oil prices$5.00/gal!The Arabs will not stop until we are paying $5! http://fakesteveballmer.blogspot.comMake Them Sick; Then Sell Them The MedicineIt seems suspicious that a "texas oilman" who has control of oil, and therefore is a beneficiary of high oil prices would want...

Tags: Gas Prices, oil, environmentalist

Discussion threads 2008-04-27

Agency Chooses New Technology to Drive Up Tourism and Strengthen Customer Relations

The goal of South African Tourism's global employees is to increase tourism to the nation to help enhance the nation's economy. This global presence created a unique challenge: collaboration between offices across time zones. Managers had little visibility into what employees were doing. Lacking this basic knowledge, decision makers had...

Tags: Agency, Microsoft Corp., CRM, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software

Case studies 2008-04-14

Where top advertisers spent their budgets in 2006 and 2007

CATEGORY 2007 2006 Growth, YTY FINANCIAL SERVICES $9,122.9 $8,656.4 5.4% TELECOM $9,052.3 $9,438.3 -4.1% LOCAL SERVICES & AMUSEMENTS $8,946.9 $8,700.7 2.8% AUTO, NON-DOMESTIC $8,115.6 $8,689.5 -6.6% MISC RETAIL1 $8,071.6 $8,279.7 -2.5% DIRECT RESPONSE $7,447.9 $6,364.9...

Tags: Service, Advertiser, Telephony, Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications, Networking, NB

Blog posts 2008-04-09

Mangocity Leads China's Online Travel Services Industry With Avaya Solutions

The online tourism industry in China is extremely competitive, with many dominant and established players. As a new entrant in 2006, Mangocity's biggest challenge was to differentiate its travel portal from those hosted by the incumbents. The company decided that customer service is of utmost importance and needed a solution...

Tags: Customer Service, Industry, Avaya Inc., Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Product Marketing, Call Centers, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Marketing, It Operations, Management

Case studies 2008-04-01

News to know: Linux galore; Black Hat Europe; Vista reliability; Google and censorship

Notable headlines: Paula Rooney: Microsoft partners with open source Jaspersoft, Sourcesense Ubuntu's Shuttleworth: Linux server, client will be big in the cloud and mobile sectors Red Hat CEO: We haven't done a good enough job as an industry leader, or project leader ...

Tags: Black Hat, Google Inc., Mobile, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Semantic Web, Linux, Advertising & Promotion, Open Source, Internet, Operating Systems, Software, Marketing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-03-26

More and more the earth has less and less

Natural features that have existed for millenia are disappearing. There have warming and cooling trends in the past, but today technology allows us to "see" what's happening. A mixture of satellite imagery, detailed on-site observation and computerized models allow human today to watch and chart what's happening as...

Tags: Ice, Satellite, Network Technology, Networking, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-03-19

Global Warming & Your Business

The World Resources Institute and their partners have come up with a list of risks and business trends that could arise from predicted climate change. You can read their summary here. WRI and some global corporations that support them used real-life case studies to determine where...

Tags: Ecosystem, Global Warming, WRI, Channel Management, Vertical Industries, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-03-11

Little nation has big green ideas

P'rtugal may become a real-life test case for renewable energy. The country has no coal, no oil. Though Portugal is heavily agricultural there's no corn lobby, no rapeseed industry, no huge dependence on fertilizer, no local auto companies. Chief exports for Portugal include wine, fish, beef, olive...

Tags: Portugal, Wave Energy Equipment, Telecom & Utilities, Government, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-02-25

Virgin Galactic unveils SpaceShipTwo; Plans open architecture spaceship

Virgin Galactic unveils SpaceShipTwo; Plans open architecture spaceshipBeautifulThey are much better looking than the first ones. I hope that they accelerate space exploration and lunar landings. Unfortunately, the current goal is mostly space tourism, which is impractical. Maybe they'll raise enough money from it to fund the bigger picture, though.RE:...

Tags: space elevator, Virgin Galactic, architecture spaceship, SpaceShipTwo

Discussion threads 2008-01-23