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Stay.com App Updates Travel

2012-07-12 by Aleksandr Shatskih

Stay.com logo

Stay.com, which was named one of TIME Magazine’s Top 50 websites in 2010, offers a new collaborative travel app that allows users to navigate a ‘city in their pocket’ by downloading their own guides for use offline, saving on international data charges. Each combines advice from Stay.com’s international travel experts, partner sites, input from fellow travelers and friends and users’ own preferences. The Stay.com app can be downloaded free from the Apple App Store, Google Play and www.stay.com.

Tags: collaborative travel, geo travel, geo-location, Google Places, GPS functionality, Joachim Paasche, TimeOut, travel apps, travel tools, TripAdvisor

Triposo Mechanized

2012-05-09 by Phil Butler

Triposo: The power of innovation, and???

Triposo, the brainchild travel startup from ex-Googler’s Jon Tirsen and Douwe Osinga, just announced their new iOS app, the story arriving via TechCrunch. So, Argo Travel News decided to take a look under the hood of this fascinating new travel guide/suggestion engine.

Tags: Android, Crunchfund, Douwe Osinga, geolocation, iOS app, iPad, iPhone, Jon Tirsen, Micheal Arrington, mobile maps, Rick Empson, Stay.com, tech, TechCrunch, travel apps, travel tech, travel techology, travel tools, Wikipedia, Wikitravel, World66

Online Travel: Translation & Localization Walk Hand in Hand

2012-03-15 by Guest Author

Translated means, we speak your language

Travel and tourism has always been one of the fastest growing business sectors worldwide. Even in these difficult times, leisure activities across the globe serve investors and the people who travel well.

Tags: foreign language, language tools, translate, translation, travel sites, travel tools, travel translation

Google Search: Concerts & Mind’s Eye Travel Boosts

2012-02-25 by Phil Butler

Santorini pop up and expanded search function

Google’s seemingly never ending list of improvements and refinements to search received the latest “tweak” with concert information in real time. Released yesterday with little or no fanfare, Google users can now see live concert and artist info including; dates, venues, and links to sites offering tickets. Tools for locals and tools for travel come to light in the last two days.

Tags: concert data, concert info, Google search, Google tools, Google Travel, image discovery, image search, Kavi Goel, travel imagery, travel images, travel info, travel tools

Best iPhone Apps for Cruisers

2012-01-31 by Guest Author

Deck Director App

Cruising the open ocean on a huge and luxurious ship that sports everything from a full dinner theater to an on-deck pool is the relaxing vacation method of choice for many people all over the world; the real trick is learning how to make the most of your experience, both on the ship and off.

Tags: cruise apps, cruise tools, gadgets, icruise, mobile apps, mobile for travel, sailing apps, seagoing apps, travel apps, travel tools, vacation apps

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