Travel Photography Tips: What Should I Pack?

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Travel Photography Tips: What Should I Pack?

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Google Plans to Launch ITA-Powered Travel Search Soon!

Google may soon launch its ITA-powered search product, less than three months after the Department of Justice approved the $700 million acquisition of the travel software company.

Google Plans to Launch ITA-Powered Travel Search Soon!

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Google Ready To Launch A New Travel Search Site (GOOG)

Google is getting ready to launch a new travel service with data gained in its $700 million acquisition of ITA.

TechCrunch reports that the new travel service will launch in a few weeks and will be integrated with Google Maps, so users will be able to choose destinations on a map and see prices to fly there.

Google will also return search results based on a user's IP address and search terms -- so if it knows you're in New York searching for beach vacations, it will show flights to Florida -- and will include pricing info in search results.

Pricing info, along with predictions of whether prices will rise or fall, has been available on Microsoft's Bing search engine for a few years now. The prediction info comes from Microsoft's 2008 acquisition of Farecast.

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• Google Is Thinking About Buying Hulu
• Google Doesn't Need Twitter Anymore, So It Just Let Their Deal Expire
• Here's One Thing Larry Page And Sergey Brin DON'T Like About Google+

Google Ready To Launch A New Travel Search Site (GOOG)

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Will this download work on my strike 7 t-mobile tablet?

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Talk Travel Photography With Us on Tomorrow’s TNI

If you love travel and Twitter, you probably already know about the weekly phenomenon called Travelers’ Night In. Invented by ZipSetGo.com, this social media chat-fest happens every Thursday afternoon on Twitter starting at 3:30 pm EST and runs until 5 pm.

Talk Travel Photography With Us on Tomorrow’s TNI

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Travel Tip Tuesday: Location-based coupons

If you use social media, whether it is Facebook, Twitter or you write a blog, it is likely you have seen many of the location-based applications such as Whrrl, Gowalla, or FourSquare. It's not just about checking in, it also allows businesses, large

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Travel Tip Tuesday: Location-based coupons

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Family Travel: Kid-Friendly Holidays in New York City

Associate Editor Susan O'Keefe is just back from a holiday visit to New York with her family.

Are you in the holiday spirit? If you're like me, it usually takes a fresh sprinkle of snow, a festive party, and a tree trimming. This year, I attempted to get a head start on the feelings of comfort and joy with a trip to New York City the morning after Thanksgiving. With three kids in tow, our ambitious itinerary included several of the city's top attractions sprinkled with kid-friendly stops to keep it fun.  

Lady Liberty

After being in the car for a few hours driving up I-95, we made our first stop the Statue of Liberty, where we could walk around and get a dose of history (we try and sneak it in any chance we get with the kids). The ferry ride is exhilarating and the cityscape views with Lady Liberty in the distance were sites to behold. Ellis Island was our next stop to view exhibits that shed light on the millions of immigrants who traveled to the New World. The kids searched their ancestors in a database and listened to an audio tour that provides the experience of being a "new arrival."

Family Travel: Kid-Friendly Holidays in New York City

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The Radar: Vintage Monorails, Pilots Revolt Against TSA, Budget Travel Errors

• When it comes to the popularity of various modes of transportation, the monorail is certainly not sitting at the cool-kids table. Time to show it some love. Check-out these nine photos of vintage monorails and vote for your favorite. [Oobject via 27Clouds.com]

• American Airlines pilots are revolting against TSA's revamped pat-down policy. The President of the Allied Pilots Association (APA), which represents 11,000 American Airlines pilots, has written a letter to his members asking they demand greater "privacy and dignity" in the airline security screening process. He demands private pat-downs and urges pilots to refuse "back-scatter" screenings which expose individuals to higher levels of radiation. [The Atlantic]

• Mark Kahler writes about the "Top 10 Budget Travel Errors" on his About.com Budget Travel blog. On the list: trading safety or cleanliness for a low price, failing to check airfares from nearby airports, and (my favorite) expecting to win big in Vegas. [About.com]

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Photo: Alberto Pelliccione/MyShot

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Google wants you to know that travel guru Arthur Frommer (no relation to SAI's Dan Frommer) is okay with the Google-...

Google wants you to know that travel guru Arthur Frommer (no relation to SAI's Dan Frommer) is okay with the Google-ITA deal.

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The Radar: Star Wars Travel, Unusual Berlin Hotel, TNI Canadian Rockies

• Most travelers today are familiar with the iconic travel posters of the art deco era, advertising Monaco's Grand Prix and Rio's sunny beaches. It's the kind of art that makes you wistful for a ride on a PanAm flight or... the Millennium Falcon? Illustrator Steve Thomas has created these hilarious and fabulous Star Wars-inspired travel posters that combine the films' out-of-this world destinations with the art deco glamour of travel's yesteryears. Now about getting that light saber through security... [Paste Magazine]

• Guests at Berlin's Propeller Island City Lodge will find unusual rooms designed in themes ranging from the wacky to wild. In the coffin room, sleep under a closed lid or sleep securely in jail-cell themed diggs. [Spot Cool Stuff]

• Twitter's TNI (Travelers' Night In) is this afternoon from 3:30-5:00pm Eastern, sponsored by Banff Lake Louise Tourism. Follow along and tweet to win awesome prizes including a three-day heli-hiking adventure in the Canadian Rockies, and a photo op with the Banff Squirrel. [ZipSetGo.com]

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Illustrations courtesy of Steve Thomas

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The Radar: Esotouric Tours of L.A., Coral Transplant in Florida Keys, Travel to China

• Hip and erudite, wacky and at times lurid, Esotouric leads unpredictable bus tours of L.A.'s fascinating and neglected neighborhoods. Tour themes mix crime and social history, literature and film, rock n' roll and architecture and explore the L.A. of Raymond Chandler, Tom Waits, James Ellroy, John Fante, and Charles Bukowski.

• Scientists are growing coral in nurseries and hope to transplant the coral to Islamorada's Davis Reef in the Florida Keys. If all takes, such a procedure could be a way to re-establish reefs damaged by humans.

• Internet travel provider Friendly Planet Travel has announced an ultra low-price trip to three of China's most fascinating spots: Beijing, Xi'an (haunt of the Terra Cotta warriors), and Shanghai. The Taste of China itinerary starts at $999 per person and includes round-trip airfare to and from L.A.

Photo: Charlie Ridgeway


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The Time Travel Paradoxes of Back To the Future

brumgrunt sent in a fun little piece to get your brain going on a cloudy monday morning. Despite countless viewings of BTTF I still never thought of a few of these. "Throughout Back To The Future Part III, there has to be two Deloreans in 1885. Also, why don't George and Lorraine recognize their son? Why doesn't the time machine disappear in the alternative 1985? These and more Back To The Future paradoxes explored..."