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UK Border Agency taking online bookings
News The UK Border Agency has begun to take online bookings for appointments to seek leave to remain in the UK. It has gone live with a system developed by EzGov Europe, and has reported that it has taken more than 30,000 online applications and...
[December 8, 2009, 8:03]
Taxi company hails 'robot' bookings
News Later this month, Regent Taxis plans to have implemented a natural language speech recognition (NLSR) system provided by Sydney-based voice recognition developer VeCommerce, enabling the taxi company to process bookings without a human operator.
[October 13, 2000, 10:00]
UK Border Agency taking online bookings
Talkback One can only hope that this is good news. The UK Border Agency's IT systems have, up until now, in our personal experience been deeply flawed. My wife's application was quite simply 'lost in the system' on one occasion of the three applications we...
[December 8, 2009, 11:52]
Hawthorne Inn & Conference Center Increases Bookings and Customer Service With Wireless Access
White Papers The Hawthorne Inn & Conference Center is located in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and features 155 guest rooms on seven floors and 10,000 square feet in conference facilities. Hawthorne Inn & Conference center needed to compete effectively with...
[March 8, 2007, 0:00]
Twiddy Used Google AdWords and Google Analytics to Transform the Way It Does Business and Boost Its Percentage of Bookings Made Online by 50% in the Past Year
White Papers Twiddy is located at Duck and Corolla, North Carolina with 85 employees and is into Vacation rentals and real estate sales. It needed to target vacationers researching the area, to tailor their marketing to its inventory and to achieve an optimal...
[June 23, 2009, 1:19]
Chip gear orders perk up
News Orders for chip equipment kept ahead of shipments in November with bookings worth $930m (£528m), giving gear makers hope of an upturn next year. The continued growth of bookings in November supports the optimism within the industry for a robust...
[December 22, 2003, 14:35]
Jamber Design Case Study: Travel Editions
White Papers They had no facility for taking bookings online, which considering the way the online travel sector has expanded in recent years, potentially left them behind their competitors. Travel Editions selected Travelink, Comtec's component-based tour...
[December 24, 2008, 0:00]
BookingPOINT
Downloads Use the powerful booking system to: Eliminate double bookings Eliminate hand written bookings Stop assets from getting lost and going astray Reduce late returns by issuing demerit points and suspending borrowers automatically Save entry time...
[September 18, 2009, 5:12]
Encryption market is taking off
News The privately traded company will announce next Monday that it has taken $40m (£21m) worth of cumulative product bookings in the past 12 months, and over $100m worth of product bookings since it was set up in November 2002.
[September 29, 2006, 14:05]
Dr Solomon's scores big quarter
News In a prepared statement, Geoff Leary, Dr Solomon's chief executive, said: "We continue to win market share in the US with substantial growth in both our retail boxed product and licence sales, giving an overall bookings increase of 195 per cent on...
[October 15, 1997, 15:10]
Startup Spotlight: ebookers.com
News The company faces a growing demand for online travel bookings, but the airline industry is changing radically, which could eventually mean lowered commissions for online travel agencies. What about lastminute.com, which also has a name-your-price...
[November 24, 1999, 16:03]
Lastminute.com revisits profitability
News In the three months to 30 June, Lastminute.com processed bookings worth a total of nearly £151m, compared to £61m for the same period last year. Summer bookings have started strongly for the key quarter four, and we remain confident of a positive...
[August 5, 2003, 11:35]
Chip-equipment orders rise slightly
News Meanwhile, SEMI's three-month average of worldwide order bookings in February 2002 showed improvement from January. Orders booked rose to $712m, a 10 percent increase over SEMI's revised $645m figure for January bookings.
[March 21, 2002, 6:31]
Slowdown predicted for microchip business
News AFI said it is advising its clients to watch for signs of double bookings, and inflated sales forecasts from component vendors and OEMs. Double bookings are when a company books to order more components than it needs in order to ensure timely...
[August 16, 2000, 11:52]
Dr.Solomon's catches growth bug
News Bookings were also up by 59% year-on-year from £9.3 million to £14.8 million. Bookings outside the UK were up by 109% year-on-year despite the adverse effect of the rise in the value of sterling and now represent over 40% of total bookings.
[July 25, 1997, 16:01]
Chip equipment orders rise again
News However, despite the healthy jump in bookings, April's three-month average of billings was still well down from April 2001 billings of $1.65bn. While the jump in April's numbers likely reflect an end-of-quarter uptick in bookings, the fact that we...
[May 19, 2002, 7:31]
RightNow hopes for premium travel
News Flights, hotel bookings and car hire information can all be obtained via an automated response system using RightNow's technology. The company has also developed a separate sales centre which deals solely with online queries, freeing up the other...
[October 18, 2005, 17:25]
SaaS may not live up to 'recession-proof' tag
News We ultimately believe that the company's ability to model its forward bookings has grown challenging and that the company is adjusting its outlook to reflect the weakness it encountered towards the end of 3Q 2008.
[November 6, 2008, 13:36]
BA saves £2m as tech staff work for free
News The holiday bookings have been made possible by the development of service-oriented architecture (SOA) hubs, which allowed information to be shared between BA's systems and those of companies offering car hire or hotel bookings.
[July 3, 2009, 9:04]
Travel Industry Innovator Widens Consumers~ Horizons With Open Architecture
White Papers Each day, Amadeus handles more than 280 million transactions and processes up to 2 million Internet bookings at its data center in Erding, Germany, one of the largest civilian data centers in Europe. HP servers running the HP-UX 11i v2, Microsoft...
[February 23, 2007, 0:00]
