During the countless time spent in security lines, have you ever wondered to yourself how many miles you’ve traveled, or how many times you’ve flown between two cities? Flight Memory can keep track of your trips and display fun graphs and interesting statistics of your travels. Flight Memory is free to use. Once you create an [...]

Smart Women Travelers isn’t just about flights, car rentals, and hotel stays. The tech toys we bring with us are all part of the fun! This year we’ve sent a SWT Correspondent to the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas to bring back news on what will be this year’s greatest travel companions – the [...]

You may remember yesterday’s post Business Travel Innovation Awards 2011 – Who Will be the Winner?. Well, a winner has been chosen! A panel of judges evaluated the submissions to determine the 2011 Business Traveler Innovation Award – Judges’ Choice with Hipmunk.com taking the top prize. Hipmunk co-founder and CEO Adam Goldstein accepted the award. [...]

An award is being given this week at the annual Global Business Travel Association’s (GBTA) convention in Denver for the best Business Travel Innovation product or service. Thirteen semi-finalists each had five minutes to present their product or service to a panel of judges. In the order presented: AirPlus International – Carbon Offset for CO2-neutral [...]

I love Jott! Jott helps me stay on top of everything, especially important with my busy travel schedule. With a simple phone call to 866-JOTT-123, you can capture notes, set reminders and calendar appointments, interact with your favorite web sites and services…all with your voice! Simply call Jott (store their number in your mobile phone’s [...]

When it comes to exploring a new city, what’s your source for planning what to do? I see people on my flights with their Fodor’s book, busy marking the pages for what they want to add to their itinerary. Others scour websites for weeks and months in advance making their list of all the hottest [...]

Whether you are in a new city finding your way around or an old favorite looking for something new, Google’s mapping services can help immensely. The days of walking around with a fold-out map are giving way to GPS-aided maps on phones, and more people are researching their trips online before they even leave home. [...]

When I’m traveling for business, one of the biggest hassles I had was keeping track of different files all over the place. The document I need could be on my laptop, or it could be back at home on my desktop. That important PDF the client needs now is on my laptop back at the [...]

The headphones available on the plane (whether for purchase or for free) are usually of poor quality and their comfort level is low. They are also not designed to cancel out the surrounding noise. Instead, bring your own noise-canceling headphones or in-ear headphones. High quality noise-isolating (different from noise canceling) headphones, or noise canceling headphones [...]

Whether you travel with your own GPS or use a rental car’s navigation system, store your hotel information into the GPS when you first arrive at your destination. In addition to having the GPS direct you to your hotel upon arrival, each day or evening’s return trip to your hotel will be easier by quickly [...]