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Surfers Travel America by Internet

Friday, November 20th, 2009

Author: Anonymous
Source: free-articles

Paris, ID July 31, 2004 — You may not hear them roaring past your house, or see them jamming the intersection, or smell the exhaust of their engines; but cyber-travelers from around the world cruise up and down the roads of America, visiting places busy and remote in their explorations. The site where all this unseen traffic takes place is www.UntraveledRoad.com.

Virtual Travel Technology, pioneered by Untraveled Road, LLC, photographically recreates streets, roads and trails online. Four pictures at each spot provide the view in each direction; and at intersections, users can turn and follow any of the photographed roads. Hundreds, or even thousands, of images of an area are needed to achieve complete coverage.

In addition to familiar-sounding places, a growing nationwide network of places famous and remote can be found on the site. Twenty-three national parks, including the Grand Canyon, Yosemite, Mount Rainier, the Sequioa and Redwood forests and Death Valley are popular with cyber-travelers. Points as far apart as Anchorage, Alaska, the Florida beaches, and the Mexican border can be visited. Hundreds of miles of highways and dozens of towns in seventeen states often entertain viewers for hours at a time.

Untraveled Road author Kelvin Smith began development in 1999 ??” when the emergence of digital photography, coupled with the internet, made it possible to pursue the project. Beginning with the rural town of Paris, Idaho and the famed Grand Canyon, the network of pictures has gradually expanded to its current scope. As photographer, software engineer, accountant and weather forecaster, Mr. Smith has worn all the hats in bringing the project to fruition. The advent of content-based advertising has been a boon to the financial side, although registration fees (necessary only for those die-hard surfers who can’t stop at the 150 free page-per-day limit) complete the company’s revenue sources.

A major milestone in the project was the development of a proprietary database system which tracks photographs as they are taken, along with street names entered into a laptop computer. An automated system incorporates the portable database into the master one, and frequently new areas are online on the same day they are photographed.

From horse and buggy to trains, automobiles and airplanes, travel has evolved. While virtual travel is no replacement for the hands-on sights, sounds, smells and feel of visiting a place, nothing else can beat the convenience while replicating as closely the real-life experience.

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DAVID GOULD JOINS INTERPRO AS SENIOR DIRECTOR OF PRODUCT MARKETING, EXPENSE EXPRESS

Monday, November 2nd, 2009

Author: Anonymous
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Pleasanton, CA…InterPro Expense Systems Inc. is pleased to announce that David Gould is joining InterPro’s management team as Senior Director of Product Marketing, Expense Express, effective immediately.

Reporting directly to InterPro’s President and Chief Executive Officer, Ted Comfoltey, Mr. Gould is responsible for defining and positioning InterPro’s current and upcoming travel and expense management products and services. He will also participate in overall strategic marketing and corporate positioning activities. Mr. Gould will be based at InterPro’s corporate offices.

“Mr. Gould brings extensive expertise in strategic marketing, corporate and product positioning, and business development to our management team,” comments Mr. Comfoltey. “His skills add new depth to our sales and marketing capabilities, and will broaden our ability to reach the multinational target markets for InterPro’s travel and expense management products.”

Mr. Gould joins InterPro from focusONe, a marketing consulting company providing strategic marketing and business development services for high technology companies in which he was a founder. He has held executive management positions in corporate marketing and communications at Fujitsu America and Pacific Bell, and managed the technology practice of the international public relations firm, Hill and Knowlton. Mr. Gould graduated from UCLA with a bachelor’s degree in political science.

About InterPro…

InterPro creates enterprise-wide Employee Relationship Management Solutions (ERMS) for use in large companies with complex employment environments. InterPro’s fully integrated suite of applications automates costly, labor-intensive administrative processes, such as travel and expense, time, attendance, scheduling and labor management reporting. Its products extend the value of the customer’s investment in existing enterprise systems by providing essential functionality and depth of information within specific processes.

InterPro’s Expense Express travel and expense products support the large, multinational enterprise with feature-rich solutions that include multi-lingual, multi-currency and multi-tax capabilities. SmartTime and SmartRules time, attendance and labor management products easily manage the most complex pay policies. Timepoint scheduling applications address employee shift scheduling, overtime equalization and vacation administration in a multiple department environment. InterPro works with its customers to identify and support best practices, and offers software that is easily configurable by the customer without expensive customization.

Privately held InterPro’s products have been in use since 1985. Its customer base includes companies in the insurance, utilities, petrochemical, food & beverage production, manufacturing, entertainment, healthcare, service, financial software and e-commerce industries and governmental agencies.

InterPro’s headquarters are at 4125 Hopyard Road, Pleasanton, California 94588-8534. Phone: 925/730-3700 or toll-free at 800/290-2010. FAX: 925/730-1192. URL: http://www.interproexpense.com.

Please direct editorial inquiries to Barbara Evans or David Kaye at KPR, Inc. Phone: 818/368-8212. FAX: 818/368-8857. E-mail: barbara@kprinc.com or dave@kprinc.com.

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Cendant TDS and IBS to jointly promote iRes

Monday, October 26th, 2009

Author: Anonymous
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Trivandrum March 26, 2004 – IBS Software Services Pvt. Ltd. (IBS), a software solutions and services provider for the global travel, transportation and logistics domains, has entered into an agreement with Cendant Travel Distribution Services (TDS), an established world leader in travel distribution services, to form a strategic relationship to promote iRes – IBS’s innovative new Passenger Services System (PSS) designed to replace legacy systems in the airline industry.

iRes is the new-generation PSS technology IBS has developed, which comprehensively addresses the passenger reservations, inventory control, fares, ticketing and departure control needs of commercial airlines, while providing opportunities to improve airlines’ revenues, profitability and service quality, compared to legacy applications. Scheduled for completion in 2006, iRes is being developed and released in stages through three major product releases and nine sub-releases – with the first major release already available.

During the course of the relationship, IBS will have primary responsibility for product development and support, i.e., developing the iRes application suite and providing software maintenance and support services to iRes customers; while Cendant will have primary responsibility for product management, sales and marketing – i.e., for managing the world wide rollout and promotion of iRes, and providing iRes hosting services in an ASP (Application Service Provider) environment.

In announcing the agreement, Mr. V. K. Mathews, Chairman and Managing Director of IBS, said the alliance will be a realisation of the clear role IBS had visualised for a strategic partner that could fulfil its global vision for iRes: “Our vision is to make iRes the industry system of the future for passenger carriers. To do that, we needed a big player in the industry to promote iRes as the future PSS. We believe Cendant TDS fills this role exceptionally well. The domain know-how, technological competence and resource strength of IBS, coupled with the global presence, customer base and credibility of Cendant TDS, will make our alliance a success.”

Mr. Mathews pointed out that through this agreement, IBS will emerge on the world stage as a true PSS provider to the global airline industry – a field currently dominated only by a handful of large corporations. In his view iRes is “the single largest and most technologically challenging application to be built for the airline industry”.

Speaking at the conference, Mr. P. K. Kunhalikutty, Honorable Minister for Industries commended IBS on the alliance, saying, “This is a significant milestone in the development of IT in the State of Kerala, and the Government is pleased to announce its full support for the venture. IBS has been a promoter and supporter of the IT industry in the State, and with this new strategic partnership with Cendant TDS, the company has once again demonstrated its continued leadership in IT”.

Ms. Flo Lugli, Senior Vice President, Airline Solutions, for Cendant’s Travel Distribution Services division, praised the development of iRes, saying, “The global air travel industry has been badly in need of a new-generation system to support the rapidly changing business processes and evolving business models, and iRes meets this need superbly”.

The industry currently depends on two core technological systems to manage its business – Passenger Services Systems and Cargo Services Systems. Both of these core systems are legacy applications that have been developed over the last 40 years. As legacy applications, they have become very expensive to maintain and operate, and the support resources needed for them have become harder to find. In addition, it is very difficult and time consuming for airlines to implement changes to these legacy applications in response to changing business needs. It was precisely to redress this situation that IBS embarked on a strategic initiative in 2001 to develop iRes.

Ms. Lugli said, “We are very pleased to partner with IBS on this exciting new technology. With more than 500 airline relationships across TDS and a large portfolio of our own industry-leading products and services, Cendant TDS is firmly committed to providing best-in-class solutions to the air travel industry – and iRes is clearly a world-class product. iRes supplements and complements our existing products and services, and will be one of our major, differentiating offerings to the industry”.

According to Mr. Mathews, the functional coverage and packaging provided by iRes serves the demanding, real-time needs of all passenger airlines, from low cost carriers to full-service carriers – and its technology and application architecture addresses both functional and non-functional requirements (e.g., performance, uptime and availability). The system is scalable and can be customized to suit the needs of an individual airline. It can be operated on standard Unix boxes (Sun/IBM) and does not require proprietary hardware or software. Its multi-hosting capabilities make it an attractive option for hosting service providers.

The press conference at which the alliance was announced was also attended by Mr. Kevin Haskins, Director Hosting Services (Cendant), Mr. Peter Krebs, Chief Operating Officer IBS Americas, Mr. Basil Mathew, General Manager Delivery Services (IBS), Mr. Suresh Verghese, Vice President Global Business Services (IBS) and other senior officials from IBS.

About Cendant TDS

Cendant’s Travel Distribution Services Division is one of the world’s largest travel companies and works directly with travel suppliers, travel distributors, travel agencies, corporations and consumers around the globe. Its brands include CheapTickets.com and Lodging.com, two of the leading online travel services for consumers; Travelport, a leader in providing corporate travel management to small, mid-sized and multinational companies; Galileo, a leading global distribution service serving more than 43,000 travel agencies and 60,000 hotels worldwide; the Neat Group, a well-known industry innovator in travel-packaging technologies; Shepherd Systems, an airline market-intelligence company; and a suite of other respected travel-distribution businesses, including Trust, THOR and WizCom. More information about Cendant can be found on the web at http://www.cendant.com.

About IBS Software Services

IBS Software Services is a world-class provider of software solutions fine-tuned to the needs of the global Travel, Transportation and Logistics business domains, in the air transportation, shipping, and oil & gas sectors. IBS manages a network of business operations world wide through group companies in Atlanta, London, Zurich, Dubai, Sydney, Singapore and Trivandrum. IBS’ portfolio of services includes business consulting, technology consulting, application products, turnkey projects, offshore software development, application maintenance and business process outsourcing. IBS operates an SEI CMM Level-5 assessed offshore development centre in India, certified against ISO 9001:2000 and TickIT standards. The global clientele of IBS includes major corporations like British Airports Authority, Air Canada, Emirates, Dubai Airport, Swiss, Qantas, SITA, EDS, Shell, GulfShare, and Qatar Airways. More information about IBS can be found on the web at http://www.ibsplc.com.

For More Information Contact:

IBS Software Services

Kanupriya Dhoot

(91) 471 – 2700080

kanupriya@ibsplc.com

website : www.ibsplc.com

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mobileStorm to Empower Email and SMS Marketing Campaigns for Leading Online Leisure Travel Provider, Travelworm.com

Friday, October 23rd, 2009

Author: Anonymous
Source: free-articles

LOS ANGELES, CA April 5, 2004??”-mobileStorm, a leading provider of permission-based digital messaging services, today announced that it has signed on Travelworm, Incorporated as its newest customer of the Stun! digital messaging platform. Travelworm, one of the largest merchant providers of hotel rooms and packages in Las Vegas and a leading travel broker specializing in Casino Resorts and Leisure Destinations will use Stun! to send out targeted email and SMS campaigns to its growing customer base to help extend the Travelworm brand as well as highlight special promotions and discounts to increase sales.

mobileStorm’s Stun! platform enables companies like Travelworm that have legitimate opt-in databases to communicate with their audiences in a more efficient and effective manner to increase sales and brand awareness. Stun! allows companies to focus on their marketing efforts instead of having to worry about the technology and delivery of the messages themselves.

???We selected mobileStorm as our email service provider because we needed a fast, efficient and low-cost alternative to doing the messaging ourselves,??

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