Skyward Innovations Launches the TripChill™ Beta Website, an Automated Travel Assistant for Frequent Travelers

Skyward Innovations launches the TripChill™ service (www.tripchill.com) to take the pain of out travel for frequent flyers. The service proactively alerts travelers to issues with their travel itinerary and provides the best options to correct each problem. Travelers can book hotel and car reservations while on the road from any type of cell phone; there is an advanced mobile interface for smartphone browsers such as the BlackBerry, iPhone, and Treo.

Stratham, NH August 5, 2008 -- Skyward Innovations has announced the availability of the TripChill™ consumer website, a mobile passenger concierge service that proactively monitors itineraries for potential issues and decisively implements user approved corrections upon request. Accessible via text messaging, email, or a smart phone web browser, the service targets those business travelers employed by small to mid-size domestic companies without a corporate travel office and provides intelligent situational assistance such as prioritized alternate flight listings, contact notifications, inbound aircraft status, and the ability to book a hotel or car when stranded at an airport. To begin the process, travelers email their reservation details to TripChill where they can quickly organize, edit and print their complete itinerary from the website. Once the service receives and chronicles travel plans, it immediately begins monitoring the itinerary for travel updates.

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Primetime TV Online

TV on the Web is no cannibal.

The total amount of TV US consumers watch keeps rising. While online TV is not cutting into total viewing hours, those who mainly watch primetime TV online may not be the biggest fans anyway.

More than 20% of US consumers ages 13 to 55 surveyed watched some primetime television programming online during spring 2008, according to Integrated Media Measurement Inc.'s (IMMI's) "Online Viewership Brief." Those who tuned in to primetime TV online were likely to watch fewer total hours of programming per month.

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MoneySavingGuide.com -- A New Online Resource to Help You Save Money

MoneySavingGuide.com was launched today by a group of friends committed to sharing tips and strategies that help consumers save money wisely. The online resource and community publishes insightful articles and blog posts, helpful how-to guides and links to the best money-saving resources on the Web.

Chicago, IL August 5, 2008 -- MoneySavingGuide.com was launched today by a group of friends committed to sharing tips and strategies that help consumers save money wisely. The online resource and community publishes insightful articles and blog posts, helpful how-to guides and links to the best money-saving resources on the Web. The Website editors research time-tested ways to save, combine them with real-world experiences and distill the information to deliver advice in language that is easy to understand.

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Next Generation of Flight Search Engine Coined 'Meta-Meta Search'

New flight comparison site departs from the previous model of directly searching numerous OTA's and airlines in favour of comparing multiple flight comparison sites.

London, UK August 5, 2008 -- Cheap-Flights-Finder.com was officially launched today with an exclusive tool that compares prices from multiple flight comparison sites, performing a so called "Meta-Meta search". The new site compares flights from Kelkoo, Kayak, Dohop, Mobissimo and Skyscanner with one single user query, scanning hundreds of different travel agents and 660 airlines. The aim of the new search engine is to offer a practical solution to the problem which affects current day flight comparison sites, namely the inability of a particular meta search engine to compare every single travel site online.

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Chinese entrepreneur dreams of a global brand

BEIJING (AP) — His company's gadgets are barely known abroad. But Aigo CEO Feng Jun, a boyishly exuberant walking advertisement for the fast-growing Chinese electronics maker, is out to change that.

Seconds after meeting a reporter at a business conference, the burly, baby-faced 39-year-old whips an Aigo computer memory card out of his wallet and throws it to the floor to show its durability. He plucks an Aigo digital camera off his belt and snaps pictures. Then he plays back the conversation on his MP3-equipped watch, also from Aigo.

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Tracking a Shopper's Habits

By Michael Fitzgerald  / MIT Review
Monday, August 04, 2008

Infosys may have solved a $100 billion problem for companies in the retail business: how to tell whether their promotions really work. In the process, Infosys has also created the potential for stores and consumer-goods companies to track things like traffic and inventory in real time.

Consumers like Procter & Gamble and the retailers they sell through spend more than $100 billion per year to promote products in stores, according to Forrester Research. They pay fees for shelf space in stores, including premiums to have their products at eye level. They pay for special promotion stands. And although they pay for armies of checkers to see whether retailers follow through on the deals, it's a system fraught with error, says Forrester analyst George Lawrie.

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