Category: Tech

Ultimate Outdoor Entertainment (UOE) is helping cooped up communities and families find ways to entertain themselves outside while maintaining safe social distances during this difficult time. They are providing Drive-In Movies that come directly to customers’ locations. “We were looking forward to releasing a full summer program of drive-in movies this year, but now UOE is more focused on the current issues at hand – helping communities find safe entertainment alternatives while helping our employees get work. We aim to continue supporting our office staff and dozens of audio-visual technicians across the country by providing a useful community activity during ... Read more

Emerging tech summit to facilitate new business in the region SiGMA Group, the events company behind the Manila AIBC Summit, has announced the format for the event and what makes it stand out from the crowd. After three hugely successful AIBC Summits in Malta, Europe, the company has set its sights on the Asian market aiming to shape the future of emerging tech in the region and seed new opportunities for both local and Western companies. The inaugural Manila AIBC Summit will take place June 8th-9th 2020, bringing together key brands from the west and key players in the Asian ... Read more

Whether you are in a hotel room, at your desk, in an RV, or by a campfire, it can be difficult to get a good cup of coffee away from home. With the holiday travel season in full swing, travelers are wondering how best to enjoy their morning java while on the go.Most away-from-home coffee options have major drawbacks. Hotel room coffee makers are convenient and cheap, but the coffee they brew means a major compromise on taste. Local cafes often offer good coffee, but the cost of all those to-go cups can really add up. Existing travel coffee presses ... Read more

Tinder, the world’s most popular app for meeting new people, announces the launch of a new unique in-app user experience, Festival Mode, in India. Users can add a badge to their profile highlighting their planned festival destination. From there, they have the ability to match and chat with other users attending the same event before they arrive. Festival Mode will begin rolling out on Tinder starting November 19th and users will have access to event-specific badges. After festivals including EDC Las Vegas, Bonnaroo, British Summer Time and EDC, Orlando, Festival Mode will have its debut in India with Bacardi NH7 ... Read more

Seychelles Travel Guide, the official mobile application of Seychelles Tourism Board, is your key to the holiday of a lifetime. Seychelles has so much more than sun, sea and sand; and while you plan your getaway to these mesmerizing islands, this app will be a perfect guide for all activities, attractions, accommodations and tourism services provided in the archipelago. The app has some amazing features like the ability to share information with friends and family on Facebook, an interactive map, navigational guide, currency converter among many others listed in detail below: Point of interest directory – Find information on various ... Read more

TikTok, the world’s leading platform for short-form mobile videos, announced the India edition of its global in-app travel campaign, #TikTokTravel. The local in-app campaign #YehMeraIndia showcases India as a key global travel destination by inviting TikTok users to share their travel moments with the world. As part of the campaign, Kerala Tourism (@KeralaTourism) launched their official account on TikTok and will be leveraging the platform to promote the state’s tourism. “We are thrilled to be one of the first state tourism boards to come onto TikTok and be part of #TikTokTravel and #YehMeraIndia. We truly believe that TikTok as a ... Read more

Now, you can easily book your domestic flights in addition to shopping, money transfers, utility bill payments, mobile recharges — all through one single app, the e-commerce giant Amazon said. Amazon has partnered with online travel and leisure activities platform Cleartrip to launch the service. “We are excited to partner with Cleartrip and share their passion of creating best in class travel experiences,” said Shariq Plasticwala, Director, Amazon Pay, in a statement. Amazon said it would not levy any additional charges in case customers cancel the ticket. They would only have to pay the airline cancellation penalty, the company said. ... Read more

Paytm has forayed into hotel bookings and announced the acquisition of NightStay, a luxury hotel-booking platform that offers deals on last-minute bookings. Paytm, owned by One97 Communications, is set to invest Rs 500 crore to scale up its operations and expand the hotel-booking portfolio. Further, Paytm is in plans to leverage its deal with Noida-based NightStay to bolster its new move. NightStay co-founder and CEO Nasr Khan will be leading the newly launched hotel-booking category at Paytm. With the latest development, customers could access more than 50,000 daily room nights from hand-picked hotels. It has also initially tied up with ... Read more

Refundit, an Israeli startup, was declared the winner in the final phase of the 1st Global Tourism Startup Competition, organized by the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) and Globalia. Refundit become winners out of 3000 entries from around the world. The event was held within the framework of the FITUR International Tourism Fair. Applications were open from 26 June to 3 September 2018. The projects were evaluated according to five criteria: uniqueness and viability of the solution, potential impact, business model, scalability and team profile. The Competition sought out the world’s most disruptive initiatives that are transforming the way people travel ... Read more

TRILL, the world’s most robust curated content marketplace for travel, is announcing its official launch. TRILL’s platform features ‘Instagrammable’ travel experiences powered by user-generated content. It allows users to search by destination, hashtag, and experience, build actionable itineraries and book hotels, activities and restaurants directly from its 1000+ creators’ Instagram content. “From my perspective, millennials pick experiences and destinations based on their Instagram-ability, which is fueled by a desire to replicate the incredible experiences they see on their social feeds, said TRILL’s co-founder and chief executive officer, Eric Shepard. “’70 per cent of all Instagram content is travel related,’1 it’s ... Read more

Almost all of us have multiple Instagram accounts – one for self and one for business. Managing those accounts have been a headache all these times. But, now Instagram, with an aim to simplify the lives for multi-Instagram account owners, has begun rolling out a new feature that lets users post their pics to multiple accounts simultaneously. The ‘self regram’ feature is available and can be accessed at the last stage of posting a photo or video. Users will now be able to choose accounts they wish to publish their post simultaneously on. However, the new feature will not allow ... Read more

Lenovo introduces a new Bluetooth Speaker, which could be easily tucked into your pocket, while travelling. The Lenovo’s 700 Ultraportable Bluetooth Speaker is attractively slim and with impressive sound for music. It is going to be the world’s thinnest Bluetooth Speaker when it launches in April for USD 149.99 Lenovo’s new speaker is at just 11 millimeters thin and just a few inches wide, it has the same general dimension as a modern smartphone and is just as easily to slip into your pocket. It has got five buttons on the front for manual control and can take calls, which ... Read more

Kumarakom, Kerala The Ministry of Tourism has entered into a pact to develop mobile audio-video guide application for 5 tourism sites across India. Letters of Intent has issued to seven agencies under ‘Adopt a Heritage’ Scheme for Vision Bidding. The Minister of State (I/C) for Tourism, K J Alphons has handed over a Memorandum of Understanding under the ‘Adopt a Heritage’ scheme to Resbird Technologies for development of a mobile Audio Guide App for five iconic sites. The five iconic sites for which the mobile Audio Guide App is to be developed are Amer Fort (Rajasthan), Kaziranga (Assam), Colva Beach ... Read more

Booking of Railway reserved tickets through Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) mobile app can be made using various payment modes enabled by Government or private banks through Multiple Payment Providers. Presently, there are five Multiple Payment Providers integrated on IRCTC mobile app. The Government payment gateways that are enabled for booking tickets through IRCTC mobile app are netbanking, debit cards, credit cards and Unified Payments Interface (UPI) Bharat Interface for Money (BHIM). All these payment gateways are provided by five Multiple Payment Providers integrated on IRCTC Mobile App. IRCTC has issued guidelines for integration of the payment providers ... Read more

Realme, a spinoff from Chinese phone company Oppo, has launched Realme U1 in India, featuring a 25-megapixel front camera. Expanding the company’s range of budget smartphones, Realme U1 aims to impress the young audience. The Realme U1 is also the first phone to launch with the MediaTek Helio P70 chipset, which brings improvements in terms of power and efficiency, in addition to better AI performance. The Realme U1 features big 6.3-inch Full HD+ (2350 x 1080 pixels) IPS LCD display, featuring a water drop-style notch. The octa-core MediaTek Helio P70 chipset with four Cortex A73 cores and four Cortex A53 ... Read more