DK Eyewitness Travel yesterday announced that their top 10 bestselling travel guides will now be available on the iPhone and iPod touch. You can download the travel guides from the Apple App Store and be able to use them within minutes. The areas covered are New York, London, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Paris, Rome, Dubai, Barcelona, Cancun and Bangkok. Each travel guide application covers sights to see, places to eat and includes a currency converter, amongst other things. There are also a number of other tools which can be downloaded from the Apple App Store such as a live flight tracker and a translator. This is very handy news if you are a proud owner of an iPhone or iPod touch. If not, then it’s not so handy!
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The end of paper boarding passes?
September 6th, 2008Air France is currently trialling new boarding passes on mobile phones which don’t leave a paper trail. The trial is taking place on flights between Paris Charles de Gaulle and Amsterdam. Passengers only need personal identification as a message containing a secure barcode is sent your mobile phone which is then scanned at the boarding gate. The message contains all the normal information shown on a boarding pass but just in an electronic form. According to Patrick Roux, vice-president of marketing for Air France: “This is the first time customers will be able to travel to and from two countries with an electronic boarding pass”. Although it sounds like a good idea, what happens if the screen of your phone is really scratched and can’t be scanned?
