Travel booking via smartphones.

With the summer travel season upon us, many people are busy scheduling trips and looking for the best deals. Nowadays, such tasks should not be the walk in the dark it used to be with a travel agent as the middle man.
With several Online tools available, chores like tracking airline schedules, making hotel and car-rental confirmations and restaurant reservation should be more easily manageable.These tools are tailored to be accessed on the go through smartphones.
They are offered by Services like Tripit.com, WorldMate.com and TripCase.com with various degrees of functionality.
One thing shared by all three services is the ability to send users confirmation e-mails to an specific address set-up at the time of registration.
They also "can alerts about flight status and gate changes, and let you book new flights or search for hotel rooms on the fly" according to the Wall Street Journal.
"Some of them do also link up with social networking sites like LinkedIn and Facebook allowing users to track each others comings and goings" the Wall Street Journal said.

For more, see WSJ.com

Social e-mail plugin Xobni to be sold in stores next to Office 2010.

Already widely used in the download form, Xobni e-mail marketing plugin is now being sold in boxed version in selected stores alongside Microsoft Office 2010 software. The version in sale in store, is the premium or Xobni Plus which the company unveil led last year in limited stores.
"The boxed software, which will be featured in stores right next to the newly released Microsoft Office 2010 software, will be sold at Office Max, Fry’s and a few other brick and mortar establishments, putting Xobni in 3,500 stores in total. Xobni Plus will also be sold on Amazon," according to TechCrunch; it will sell for $29.95, the same price as Online.
for the boxed set will be the same as it is online: a one time fee of $29.95.


For more, see TechCrunch.com