Location-Based Cola Wars: Pepsi, Coke, Foursquare and SCVNGR (ReadWriteWeb)

Even though many location-based social networks continue to struggle to find mainstream adoption, more and more big brands are hopping on the bandwagon now and are experimenting with how to best use these services for their purposes. Disney and Gowalla announced a partnership yesterday and Foursquare announced a deal with Pepsi and Safeway's Vons stores earlier this morning. Not to be left...

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The Real Tablet Wars Will Have to Wait Until Next Year

Even with the much publicized release of the Galaxy Tab this week, it looks like the real battle to upend the iPad won’t happen until next year. Lenovo’s chief executive confirmed that its LePad tablet won’t hit the market until 2011. LG also pushed back the release of its tablet until next year. Both are waiting to launch their tablets with Android Honeycomb, the upcoming release that is designed for tablets. Meanwhile, those who want RIM’s BlackBerry PlayBook or a webOS-based tablet will also have to wait until early next year.

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

Post originale: http://blogs.nationalgeographic.com/blogs/intelligenttravel/2010/11/the-radar-star-wars-travel-unu.html