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GPS: ‘Your destination will be…very wet.’

Don’t always believe it when your GPS doesn’t make sense…or even sometimes when it does.  HERE is the story of an American couple who followed their GPS on a route for Tenby Island, off the coast of Wales and actually not reachable except by boat.

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Apple Pay takes off on JetBlue

A new use for your now-allowed inflight electronics—at least if it’s an iPhone—debuts this week as JetBlue begins to accept Apple Pay for purchases of onboard food, drinks and services. When the Apple Watch releases later this year, it…

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“Astro-Tourism” takes off in Chilean desert

A new form of tourism, traveling to places with sufficiently clear night skies for astronomy, has developed in recent years, and one of its hottest spots is the Atacama Desert of northern Chile, which has unpolluted clear dry air and no nearby cities.

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United “test-flies” its new website

United Airlines, which has taken heavy criticism for a bad job of merging computer systems after its merger with Continental, is taking no chances with its major overhaul of its website, according to an analysis in USA Today.   The new site is…

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StreetView Comes to Royal Caribbean

Royal Caribbean’s Quantum of the Seas is now deploying Google’s StreetView mapping technology. Read More: http://www.tnooz.com/article/g…bbeans-quantum-seas/ See  what it looks like: http://www.royalcaribbean.co.u…reet-view/index.html Gumbos…

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Google vs. Uber? With no one in driver’s seat?

Wait for it…Google is on the verge, apparently, of offering a ride-share app that would compete with Uber (a company it previously invested in). In the long run, Google hopes to pair it up with its longstanding driverless car research, which company…

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Not much progress yet on Universal Airline Tracking

After the disappearance nearly a year ago of Malaysian Airlines MH370, nearly everyone agreed how important it would be for better technology to track all airliners in real time. But that appears to be the last agreement on the issue, as some airlines…

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Reality not to your liking? Qantas offers VR headsets

Qantas, which has some of the world’s longest routes because it’s, well, far away, is about to pioneer a new inflight entertainment on selected flights—Virtual Reality headsets which will, among other things, let you “be” in other places besides…

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“Co-Working Holidays:” Forget about disconnecting…

Against all advice to “get away from it all,” some of us never manage to unplug from devices and especially from work while on vacation. Guardian (UK) reports on a new phenomenon. Instead of trying to avoid work on vacation, “co-working” provides the…

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GPS: ‘Your destination will be…very wet.’

Don’t always believe it when your GPS doesn’t make sense…or even sometimes when it does.  HERE is the story of an American couple who followed their GPS on a route for Tenby Island, off the coast of Wales and actually not reachable except by boat.

Read More

Apple Pay takes off on JetBlue

A new use for your now-allowed inflight electronics—at least if it’s an iPhone—debuts this week as JetBlue begins to accept Apple Pay for purchases of onboard food, drinks and services. When the Apple Watch releases later this year, it…

Read More

“Astro-Tourism” takes off in Chilean desert

A new form of tourism, traveling to places with sufficiently clear night skies for astronomy, has developed in recent years, and one of its hottest spots is the Atacama Desert of northern Chile, which has unpolluted clear dry air and no nearby cities.

Read More

United “test-flies” its new website

United Airlines, which has taken heavy criticism for a bad job of merging computer systems after its merger with Continental, is taking no chances with its major overhaul of its website, according to an analysis in USA Today.   The new site is…

Read More

StreetView Comes to Royal Caribbean

Royal Caribbean’s Quantum of the Seas is now deploying Google’s StreetView mapping technology. Read More: http://www.tnooz.com/article/g…bbeans-quantum-seas/ See  what it looks like: http://www.royalcaribbean.co.u…reet-view/index.html Gumbos…

Read More

Google vs. Uber? With no one in driver’s seat?

Wait for it…Google is on the verge, apparently, of offering a ride-share app that would compete with Uber (a company it previously invested in). In the long run, Google hopes to pair it up with its longstanding driverless car research, which company…

Read More