Travel Technology

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The challenge for TripAdvisor is whether it will win by being an all-encompassing app or whether it is better to be more focused like Expedia's or HotelTonight's apps. In phasing out its City Guides app, TripAdvisor is putting itself in the comprehensive camp.

As Google threatens to give online travel agencies grief with its new Instant Booking product it can smile and say that it's on the right track as mobile search engine use keeps growing with leisure travelers.

There are still so many possibilities for mobile videos and brands have only scratched the surface. This research shows where brands should focus their efforts as consumers increasingly turn to mobile devices for information and entertainment.

In-flight Internet at any speed is still a wonder to us.

While some airlines and hotels talk up how much they are investing in technology and mobile, in particular, the users of some of their apps are giving them a big thumbs-down.

Within this generation lies an enormous skew in maturity, career, and fiscal spend, a trajectory shaped most dramatically by the silicon age and the boom of mobile technology in the early 2000s.

United hopes that consistent information sharing and mobile digital services will improve its relationship with passengers. They can't hurt, but this doesn't even begin to address United's core problems, which are leadership and competence.

There is still much growth left in in-flight Wi-Fi and related connectivity services, and it appears that emerging economies are showing more interest than connectivity-saturated mature markets like the U.S.

We expect any sharing would be limited to alliances for now, and even that would be partial data exchange.