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Tourism is getting a digital redesign. Many young travelers are tired of the cheesy guided walks and the slow, sometimes pretentious audio tours that have become the staples of urban tourism.

Travelers need only download and head downtown. Once they get to a certain street or building, they hit ...

Motorola showcased the new technology last week at the National Cable TV Show in Atlanta and the previous week at the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association show in Las Vegas.

The key to Follow Me TV technology is communications between wireless devices and the digital video recorder...

Changing lifestyle & adoption of technology is creating a new kind of  knowledge available about individuals and their activities. This is creating a new inflection point in sharing knowledge and creating extremely customized experiences based on understanding the individual and what he or ...

In the modern world, it's an experience no one can escape.

As companies cut costs and shift their call centers overseas, service has become less personal -- and more frustrating.

• It takes firms longer to respond to e-mail queries than it did two years ago, according to Jupiter Research. In a recent st...

Europe aims to be the launch pad for the world's first aircraft offering commercial mobile phone service when an Airbus A318 operated by Air France takes off in March.

The aircraft will offer onboard mobile phone service on short-haul flights within Europe and to and from North African destinations ...

The South African mobile telephone service provider Cell C has followed in the recent footsteps of competing operator Vodacom to launch its own loyalty programme for prepaid customers.

With the strapline, "It pays to stay on the phone with Cell C", the company is asking its prepaid mobile u...

Does this sound familiar? Jim Logan writes:

I see this all the time, a business racks up customer and after customer, year after year. They collect names, addresses, email addresses, telephone numbers, etc. And never once write, call, solicit, or offer the customer the opportunity to return. They tak...

Fortune has a great piece on how great leaders work - How I work.

Sure, each one of us can pick-up a tip or two from each one of them.

Very nice article from CNN Money. It's important to focus, spend time on a problem, have some freedom and space to work smarter.

Here are some excerpts:

In a world of too much work and too much multitasking, the best way to beat the competition may be to do less.

But it's really, really hard, if not im...

Whenever I recommend referral programs to my clients, they  seemingly look at me with  disdain and questions like - " Will it work?", "Is it not an old world marketing principle?" or  they  ask me " Tell me something more exciting, new and refreshing"...