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| Gadgets that prevent holiday travel headaches - abc7.com Posted: 19 Nov 2009 07:32 PM PST LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- As you plan your holiday travel, you'll also want to plan ways to avoid hearing, "Are we there yet?" There are some new gadgets on the market designed to keep the kids occupied. Consumer Specialist Ric Romero presents the latest gadgets to help you travel in peace. Traveling long distances with the kids, whether it be in the car or in the air, can be a real pain. So why not tote along some tools to make the trip easier or at least more enjoyable? So here are some travel must-haves. When Michael Rand hits the road, he's happy whenever he gets to skip driving duties and take to the passenger seat. To keep himself occupied he says, "I always have either the DVD player or I'll be on the laptop or headphones on listening to the iPod or iTouch." DVD players and iPods are great, but they're not the only travelling companions this holiday season. "There's so many gadgets that help people travel either to get their trip off to a great start or to keep them entertained," explained Stirling Kelso from Travel and Leisure Magazine. Whether you take to the road or skies, Kelso says for less than $25 there's this new scale to help make sure your bags don't exceed airport weight limits. "Sometimes you end up at the gate just stuffing your carry-on full of clothes but in this case you can weigh your luggage at home and then travel stress-free," said Kelso. Travel and Leisure suggests the Swiss Gear Zurich Rolling Duffel Bag because it can be carried over the shoulder or rolled. Plus, "not only is it very durable but it has a 10-year warranty and is made by the makers of the Swiss Army Knife," said Kelso. If you're looking to tune out other travelers, Kelso says the high-tech earphones by Klipsch Image may be music to your ears because they "really improve your hearing experience both tonally and dynamically," explained Kelso. "They also have ear buds that shape your ears so they fit right in there, blocking out any external noise." If books are more of your thing, check out the new Sony Reader. It runs about $200. But Kelso says it's a good deal. "It stores 350 books and has a two-week battery lifespan. It's also lightweight and it also has a partnership with Google so you can get over a million free eBooks," said Kelso. Travel and Leisure thinks the most talked about gadget of the season could be the Cinemin Swivel. "It's a pocket projector so you can project movies or photos on any surface. It's got this great 90-degree hinge," said Kelso. Mike thinks that sounds pretty cool and could see packing many of these must-haves on his next trip. "The gadgets for me just make the time go quicker," said Michael. Get more Save Money / Consumer News » save money / consumer news, ric romero
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| Posted: 19 Nov 2009 01:57 AM PST Exalead, a global leader of information
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applications for the enterprise and on the web, today announced that it
will demonstrate its Smart Search solution for Travel and Leisure at The PhoCusWright Conference Travel Innovation Summit.
Exalead's Smart Search enables Travel and Leisure web sites to provide
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content to consumers at a modest cost. Consumers gain a more trusted, more
relevant travel planning and booking experience. Travel and Leisure
enterprises gain increased repeat traffic, higher conversion rates and
increased revenue. Smart Search is based upon Exalead's industry leading
CloudView search- and semantics-based application development platform.
| "We're demonstrating what we think is a game-changing approach to personalizing on-line travel arrangements," said Paul Doscher, CEO of Exalead. "With Smart Search, we provide consumers with a 'my travel agent' experience even though they are interacting with a web site. For example, a trip could be based on an event like a New York Giants football game and Smart Search would recommend travel, accommodations, dining and complementary attractions."
WHAT: The Travel Innovation Summit is a forum where the next wave of innovation in the travel industry will demonstrate applications, mobile technology and solutions that significantly impact travel planning, purchasing and memorializing. An audience of influential travel professionals will judge the innovators in real-time. WHEN: Tuesday, November 17, 2009. WHERE: Omni Orlando Resort at ChampionsGate • Orlando, FL United States People interested in registering for the PhoCusWright conference can do so at http://www.phocuswright.com/the_phocuswright_conference_information. About Exalead Founded in 2000 by search engine pioneers, Exalead® is a global software provider in the enterprise and Web information access solution markets. Exalead's worldwide client base includes leading companies such as PricewaterhouseCooper, ViaMichelin, GEFCO, American Greetings and Sanofi Pasteur, and more than 100 million unique users a month use Exalead's technology for search. Today, Exalead is reshaping the digital content landscape with a platform, Exalead CloudView™, that uses advanced semantic technologies to bring structure, meaning and accessibility to previously unused or under-utilized data in the disparate, heterogeneous enterprise information cloud. The system collects data from virtually any source, in any format, and transforms it into structured, pervasive, contextualized building blocks of business information that can be directly searched and queried, or used as the foundation for a new breed of lean, innovative information access solutions. Exalead is an operating unit of Qualis, an international holding company, with offices in Paris, San Francisco, Glasgow, Milan and Darmstadt. Readers who wish to gain more information about Exalead can contact (415) 230 3800 or visit www.exalead.com. This content has passed through fivefilters.org. | |
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