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Microsoft Drops Smart Tags From Windows XP
News For example, if a person was reading a story about travelling, the word "airline" could include a link that would divert the reader to an airline or travel service chosen by Microsoft. Smart Tags, which are created using Extensible Markup Language...
[June 28, 2001, 8:47]
Amazon, Google Lead New Path To Web Services
News For example, a rental car company might share its inventory database with an airline so that travellers planning a trip online could easily rent a car on the airline's Website, saving time and money for everyone.
[November 25, 2002, 10:07]
Aging Drives Internet Growth
News The four services to see a boom since 2001 were: messaging, banking, bill payment and airline reservations. The percentage of Internet users purchasing online increased from 32 percent in 2001 to 53 percent in 2003, attributable mainly increases in...
[September 22, 2003, 16:10]
Java 2 Platform, Micro Edition (J2ME) Web Services
White Papers From airline Web sites that offer car rental and hotel services with up-to-the-minute rates, to the doctor who has access to online medical services from his or her cell phone, Web services are becoming a part of daily life.
[October 12, 2004, 0:00]
Britons Go Online To Get Away
News The market is divided across two distinct types of site -- those offering airline and train information and booking, like Britishairways.com and Easyjet.com, and sites providing package or customised holidays such as Thomascook.co.uk and Ebookers...
[August 6, 2001, 14:17]
Priceline To Unveil Second Asian Site
News The company is expected to launch its online business in Singapore next week, offering name-your-own-price airline tickets and hotel rooms to travelers flying out of the country. Singapore's largest airline, Singapore Airlines, is also not listed...
[May 24, 2002, 7:32]
Airlines' IT Spending Drops
News Skills in demand this year in airline IT will be Web systems application development (80 per cent), customer relationship management skills (65 per cent) and IT strategy skills (65 per cent). The Airline IT Trends Survey 2004 by industry body SITA...
[July 6, 2004, 10:10]
Yahoo Launches Customisable Ad Tool
News Someone searching for flights between Dallas and Phoenix could be served an ad, for example, with specific up-to-the-minute fares from a particular airline along with a button that says "buy now", all within the ad, said Yahoo spokeswoman Gaude Paez.
[July 2, 2007, 9:51]
Case Threatens Search Engines' Use Of Trademarks
News That means that when a visitor searches on the term "travel," for example, he or she might see an ad for an airline company. Some consumers, initially seeking Playboy's sites, may initially believe that unlabeled banner advertisements are links to...
[January 16, 2004, 8:25]
Online Businesses Feel Impact Of Attack
News Competing airline site Expedia also is getting a lot of calls and has stopped taking reservations for flights departing before 18 September. At the same time, many Web sites turned over large amounts of space to urge people to donate to the Red Cross.
[September 13, 2001, 9:36]
Ryanair Sales Take Off On Web
News Online tickets sales now form the vast majority of all flights sold by Ryanair, the Irish budget airline said on Tuesday. Travel sites are proving particularly successful, with both Lastminute.com and Ebookers achieving encouraging financial...
[November 5, 2002, 11:57]
Google Flight Takes Off
News Google has launched a search feature that use Web services to let people quickly get airline flight information. Below those are links to the travel Web sites Expedia, Hotwire and Orbitz. Users can type in two different cities, or airport codes...
[October 28, 2005, 10:10]
Microsoft To Cast .Net In Ad Campaign
News They will feature companies that have already tried out .Net, including Dollar Rent A Car, which used the technology to integrate its reservation system with the Web site of an airline partner. The .Net strategy ties together nearly all of the...
[February 18, 2002, 6:31]
Liberty Alliance And Passport Still Poles Apart
News As a merchant on the Web, we would dearly love to get people from anywhere to buy from us," said Eric Dean, chief information officer for the airline. Passport serves as an online identification system for many of Microsoft's Web properties...
[February 20, 2002, 9:06]
Internet Downtime Still Up There
Blog The best effort goes to airline sites which had 10 percent downtime according to the research. The penultimate panel debate at NetEvents Geneva on Friday was based around a recent study of downtime across European and US sites which revealed...
[February 23, 2007, 13:35]
HP Eyes Up Pot Of E-services Gold
News If your plane is late, the airline will automatically inform the restaurant and your hotel" says Van Der Fluit. Once a user decides which site to use to book, for instance an airline ticket, not only will that portal provide a swift, painless means...
[June 7, 1999, 14:07]
Slammer May Not Feed On Microsoft Alone
News The deluge brought down some bank's ATM networks and disrupted some phone services, and the effects were felt by many companies, including those in the airline industry and railroad industry. Last weekend, many corporate networks, ISPs and...
[January 30, 2003, 7:49]
The Week In Review: Slammer Dunks The Internet
News Are you at risk from deadly airline-style blood clots from using your computer? The IT world found out this week when the SQL Slammer worm slowed Web sites and corporate networks to a crawl. UK sites hit by SQL worm
[January 31, 2003, 15:40]
Web Acts As Hub For Info On Attacks
News United Airlines posted a message on its site that said the airline was cooperating with the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Following yesterday's terrorist attacks in the US, many news Web sites were unable to cope with the traffic they received...
[September 12, 2001, 9:35]
Microsoft Releases Speech-recognition Tools
News With voice-enabled software, a typical computer user could perform tasks such as making an airline reservation by just by speaking the information. Although speech recognition has been around for years and has seen limited adoption, Microsoft is...
[May 8, 2002, 11:40]
