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Get a Room, Get an iPhone: Hotels Go High-Tech
My brother — a total tech geek — recently posted a picture on Facebook of his hotel bedside table during a trip. It was cluttered with gadgets recharging via the power strip he packed. My other brother...
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Technology Takes Over Travel
Plane tickets, hotel reservations, copies of your passport and credit cards: Would you trust your most sensitive travel documents to a cell phone app? We were skeptical, so we tested it for ourselves....
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Two Airports Techies Will Want to Visit
When vetting flights and possible layovers, I take my options for connecting airports very seriously. What’s the distance between connecting gates? How speedy is immigration? Can I find something...
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How Long Is Too Long Without a Connection?
If you’re reading this, you’re clearly wired. Perhaps you limit yourself to perusing travel Web sites’ blogs, but if you’re like most of us, you likely throw some e-mail and social media into the mix,...
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T-Mobile Eliminates Roaming Fees for Cell Phone Users Abroad
No, that isn’t a pig flying past your head, but it is an equally uncommon sight: a company that’s actually reducing fees for travelers. That company is T-Mobile, and those fees are roaming charges for...
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FAA Approves Use of Personal Electronics During Flight
The days of having to stow your Kindle, cell phone or iPod at the very beginning and end of a flight will soon be coming to an end. The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announced today that...
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One Small Step for This Traveling Woman
It may not have been as historically significant as Neil Armstrong transmitting the message “One small step for man,” but last Friday, when I texted my husband “Just landed” from the runway at Schiphol...
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Would You Book a Vacation on Your Cell Phone?
There are countless things I now rely on my phone for — directions, restaurant reviews, streaming music, a wake-up call — but booking a vacation is not one. According to an episode of “The Street”...
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Sharing or Showboating? Travel Posts on Social Media
Maybe you’ve landed on a glacier in Alaska, ridden a donkey in Greece or hiked to a mountaintop monastery in Tibet. Whatever the experience, it’s likely you’ve got photos to share or, at the very...
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The Hyperloop: Travel at the Speed of Sound
If you could travel between New York and Philly in 10 minutes, would you? What about going from San Francisco to Los Angeles in 20? It sounds crazy, but it’s not so far-fetched, according to Forbes. In...
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