TripIt – Travel Technology Consulting Inc.

April 28, 2010

Apple iTravel

Tweet Apple has filed a patent for the complete travel process on the iPhone.The patent includes an application called iTravel for planning, searching, reviewing and booking flights, hotels, car rentals, trains and bus trips, as well as technology for identification at airports for baggage handling and boarding passes. The patent relies heavily on Near Field Communications (NFC) to enable the […]

May 19, 2009

Sabre’s new Tripcase a TripIt Competitor

Tweet Sabre has introduced a downloadable iPhone app that competes with TripIt.It has some similar features but unlike the email parsing capability of TripIt, TripCase automatically imports the PNR information provided it was booked in Sabre. It is currently only available on the iPhone, but additional platforms will be introduced later this year. So is this a TripIt killer? Maybe […]

February 25, 2009

An intelligent travel assistant

Tweet It was way back in 1985 I first began exploring the use of AI expert systems to automate the travel process. At that time a close friend worked for Mad Intelligent Systems in Santa Clara California. I was at United Airlines and I already had a thirst for emerging technology. I believed that automating the travel process would be […]