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Today's Fresh Blogs...| Dell Promotes Their Laptops With Toshiba Destruction |
| Published: July 29, 2007, 6:45 pm |
| Tags: Computers, 280, 443, 189 |
| Dell's new promotion of their Latitude XT tablet PC is gets personal—claiming frustration with bad tablets, they saw Toshiba's competing M400 in half. We're not sure how, if at all, Toshiba plans to retaliate. But we humbly suggest the use of eggs, toilet paper and a half-broken bottle of Jack when proceeding. Thanks Matt! |
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| Govt Of India To Launch E-Commerce Platform On Tourism Site; Ties Up With Travel Portals, Hotels |
| Published: July 31, 2007, 7:02 am |
| Tags: 442, 443 |
| The Ministry of Tourism of India has launched a new e-Commerce platform on its tourism website Incredible India, that apparently connects customers with travel agencies, tour operators, hotels and Bed & Breakfast (B&B) establishments. In terms of third party vendors, they've tied up with Desiya, TravelGuru, Yatra, Ezeego1, MakeMyTrip, |
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| India's Online Travel Business Expected To Nearly Quadruple Every Year Until 2010 |
| Published: July 31, 2007, 3:54 am |
| Tags: 442, 443, 233 |
| Now, I know some of you may not be surprised by the headline considering that we are talking about a growth spurt in the online travel business from a relatively small base. Still, I am sure some of our readers will be interested in seeing how India stacks up against other Asian countries. Online travel sales in Asia Pacific are estimated to reach |
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| Some Dell Latitude XT Tablet Details Poot Out |
| Published: August 3, 2007, 4:13 pm |
| Tags: Computers, 280, 443 |
| Dell is totally latching on to what is sure to be the wave of the future with their new project: a tablet. Yep, the Wang Computers Dell Latitude XT tablet looks to really grab the exploding tablet market by the horns, featuring the sorts of specs that'll make tablets as popular as UMPCs, if not more popular than UMPCs. Hang onto your hats. - |
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| Arzoo Allows Restaurant Table Booking |
| Published: August 13, 2007, 12:13 am |
| Tags: 442, 443 |
| Sabeer Bhatia's portal Arzoo.com has introduced a "book-a-table' service for Mumbai, reports Indiantelevision. The company is providing a single number, toll free, table booking service for 750 restaurants in the city, hence alleviating the need for remembering numbers of various restaurants. There are plans to expand the service to other cities |
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| Travel Portals Go Mobile: MakeMyTrip-Nokia, Yatra On The Go |
| Published: August 23, 2007, 12:36 am |
| Tags: 442, 443, 228 |
| -- If you caught the Nokia N-Series adverts on TV recently, you might have noticed a tiny MakeMyTrip logo at the bottom during the final frame, below the Nokia N-Series logo. MakeMyTrip launched a mobile application for the Nokia N-Series, which allows users to book flights via GPRS. It's difficult to get users to download such applications, so |
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| Kingfisher Tops E-ticketing Race, A-I Trails |
| Published: August 28, 2007, 5:00 am |
| Tags: 442, 443 |
| While Kingfisher Airlines sells all of its tickets via the Internet, Air-India sells a paltry 7 percent of its tickets through the Web, according to the International Air Transport Association (IATA.) [via Business Standard] Indian Airlines is, however, far ahead of A-I and sells 64 per cent of its tickets through the Internet. Among the |
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| Kingfisher Tops E-ticketing Race, A-I Trails |
| Published: August 28, 2007, 5:11 am |
| Tags: 442, 443 |
| While Kingfisher Airlines sells all of its tickets via the Internet, Air-India sells a paltry 7 percent of its tickets through the Web, according to the International Air Transport Association (IATA.) [via Business Standard] Indian Airlines is, however, far ahead of A-I and sells 64 per cent of its tickets through the Internet. Among the |
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| Times Group Acquires Stake In Travel Masti |
| Published: August 31, 2007, 12:11 am |
| Tags: 474, 519, 442, 443, 241 |
| So here's a travel portal that wasn't in my ever burgeoning list online travel agents (OTAs): Travelmasti.com. The company, Travel Masti Holidays, has received an undisclosed amount of investment from Bennett, Coleman & Co Ltd (BCCL, also known as the Times Group). reports BCCL group publication Economic Times. The site offers hotel reservations |
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| Cleartrip Ties Up With Future Money To Offer Travel On EMI |
| Published: September 19, 2007, 7:28 am |
| Tags: 442, 640, 443 |
| Online Travel Agency (OTA) Cleartrip has tied up with Future Money, a Future Group non-banking financial corporation, to provide travel products - tickets, hotel bookings and tour packages on easy monthly installments (EMIs), reports Business Standard. The facility will be available for transactions between Rs. 6000 and Rs. 50,000. Future Money is |
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| Police: Teens used slingshot to break windows in Hackettstown |
| Published: September 20, 2007, 11:25 am |
| Tags: Breaking News, New Jersey, Police, Warren County, 43592, 17233, 443, 43590 |
| A 17-year-old Hackettstown boy was arrested early Wednesday for using a slingshot to break several windows in town, a news release from police says. The boy and a 19-year-old accomplice who lives in Great Meadows allegedly used "decorative glass stones"... |
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| Cleartrip Ties Up With Future Money To Offer Travel On EMI |
| Published: September 19, 2007, 7:17 am |
| Tags: 442, 640, 443 |
| Online Travel Agency (OTA) Cleartrip has tied up with Future Money, a Future Group non-banking financial corporation, to provide travel products - tickets, hotel bookings and tour packages on easy monthly installments (EMIs), reports Business Standard. The facility will be available for transactions between Rs. 6000 and Rs. 50,000. Future Money is |
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| Application Roundup: STAR-Yatra; Moneycontrol-Markets On Mobile |
| Published: October 4, 2007, 8:34 am |
| Tags: 474, 494, 484, 485, 442, 443, 228 |
| -- STAR India has signed a 12 month alliance with Online Travel Agent (OTA) Yatra.com to offer air travel reservations, hotel bookings etc on STARs GPRS based mobile platform PLUS. STAR already has other OTAs - MakeMyTrip and TravelGuru already on board. Yatra has its own GPRS based application as well, so I guess it's about being on as many |
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| Application Roundup: STAR-Yatra; Moneycontrol-Markets On Mobile |
| Published: October 4, 2007, 8:01 am |
| Tags: 474, 494, 484, 485, 442, 443, 228 |
| -- STAR India has signed a 12 month alliance with Online Travel Agent (OTA) Yatra.com to offer air travel reservations, hotel bookings etc on STARs GPRS based mobile platform PLUS. STAR already has other OTAs - MakeMyTrip and TravelGuru already on board. Yatra has its own GPRS based application as well, so I guess it's about being on as many |
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| MakeMyTrip Raises $15 million From Tiger Fund, Sierra, SAIF Partners And Helion Venture Partners |
| Published: October 8, 2007, 5:43 am |
| Tags: 442, 443, 235 |
| Online Travel Agency (OTA) MakeMyTrip.com (MMT) has raised $15 million in Series C funding from Tiger Fund, SAIF Partners, Sierra Ventures and Helion Venture Partners, reports VC Circle. Of the $15 million, Tiger Fund has invested $8 million. Around a year ago, MakeMyTrip had raised $13 million from SAIF, Helion and Sierra. This is the third |
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