Posts Tagged ‘ travel ’

ITASoftware.com, which provides the technological backbone for many airfare shopping sites, allows users to scan an entire month’s fares for the least expensive rate. (Log in as a “guest” and click on “month-long search.” ) In January, the 28th and 30th were the cheapest dates to fly nonstop to London from New York ($536)...
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This is marvelous – I love it. iLingual from Lean Mean Fighting Machine is a new translation app for iPhone. Pick your phrase, hold it up to your mouth, and let ‘er rip. Check out this brief – and hilarious – video: First saw it at the Edible Apple.
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The dogs are barking and the birds are singing. First light hasn’t yet hit Porto, Portugal today, but I’m awake, a victim of jet lag and an inability to sleep in spite of being dead tired. Ah well … gives me a chance to catch up on my blogging! I flew into Lisbon, Portugal...
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I’m sitting in my hotel room on the 30th floor of the Ritz-Carlton in Osaka at 5:35 AM, Sunday morning, reflecting on my Japan experience so far. First impressions are only first, and I have 5 days in Tokyo to add to them, but they tend to last. My first impression is that Japan...
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I’m in Osaka to speak at ACE 2009 on Google and intelligence in the modern age (I’ll upload some assets from the presentation sometime next week). But I had a free afternoon today, and here’s a few things I saw: Sonezaki Markeplace: Robo-concierge in the HAL building: Yodobashi Umeda (electronics store):
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I’m looking for hotels in Tokyo for an upcoming speaking trip to Japan, and ran across the Sumisho. It looks like it could be OK, but it’s hard to tell given the Japanese/English fusion (Engrish) it’s written in. The Nihombashi which stops the vestiges of Edo. As a hotel of peacefulness, Sumisho is nochalant,...
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Some pictures from my recent trip to Portland, OR … We were meeting a group of people at Intel, which has a fairly major presence in Portland. It was my third visit to an Intel office – head office in Santa Clara (Silicon Valley), Intel Shanghai offices, and now one of their Portland offices....
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I just bought the tickets and confirmed: I’m heading to Japan in October. So far, I know 3 things: I’m going to land in Tokyo I’m going to be in Osaka on the 24th and 25th speaking at ACE 2009 I’m going to fly out of Tokyo The question is: what else should I...
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I recently traveled to Shanghai, China for meetings with Intel. What an amazing place: 30 million people in one city … always growing, always changing, always building. Here are some of my memories …
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It’s a beautiful night in Shanghai. Lashing rain from the regretful remnants of Typhoon Morakot has now left the region, cleaning the air and drenching the streets. A thin mist is still falling, invigorating evening walkers. And a low fog is blanketing the city, obscuring the tops of skyscrapers and deepening the mystery of...
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I’m in Taipei with a colleague for meetings with Asus. Fortunately, through a combination of good timing and good luck we’ve been able to see and do a few things while here, including visiting the Taipei 101 (currently the tallest building in the world) and parts of the city. Here are a couple of...
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I recently visited Intel’s Santa Clara headquarters for meetings with their emerging markets platform group. It’s the first corporate HQ I’ve seen with an integrated museum and gift shop. Here’s a small selection of photos of their facility:
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I recently traveled to Cairo to speak at the Intel Learning Alliance summit. The conference was great, and I met many, many wonderful people. So was the city, and I made sure to take an extra day or so to ensure I could see at least a few of the sights. Here’s what my...
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Early this week I had the chance to spend a day in Amsterdam on my way to Cairo for the Intel Learning Alliance Summit. Amsterdam is (of course) very beautiful, and it’s an amazing walking city. I took the train from Schipol airport to Amsterdam Centraal station, and then booked onto a canal tour....
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Here’s a small selection of photos that I took on my recent visit to London:
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