We all know how to use search engines. And we all know about industry-specific Web sites. Now, with the introduction of www.expoworld.net, we have a search engine that looks for industry-specific sites. Web sites about Web sites are, naturally...
Sorting out the hip from the hype in new CD-ROMs and Web sites. Tomorrowland: The Future Ain't What It Used to Be A CD-ROM about the new Tomorrowland attractions at Disneyland in Anaheim, Calif., opens with a short clip of newsreel footage from...
With funding from General Electric, and in collaboration with Edison Electric Vehicles, Hilton Hotels Corp. has installed electric vehicle charging stations at 13 of its southern California hotels as well as the company's corporate offices in...
"The capacity of our fiber-optic backbone is basically limited by the devices and drivers that are used with it," says Mike Polovcin, director of operations for the new Hawai'i Convention Center. "We provide the highway--what travels on it, and...
The St. Louis, MO-based International Association of Conference Centers (IACC) surveyed its North American members (which include executive and resort conference centers, company training centers, and college/university conference centers) about...
The Marriott Hickory Ridge Conference Center in Lisle, Ill. is so dedicated to meeting the technology needs of its clients that it has created a new position--telecommunications supervisor--to do exactly that. In this role, Harold Karbonek is...
Unlike Apple, SolidWorks didn't start in a garage. In fact, its birthplace was even more humble--CEO Jon Hirschtick's basement. Hirschtick, 36, has bachelor's and master's degrees in mechanical engineering from Massachusetts Institute of...
Siggraph '98, a computer graphics show, is the largest test yet for Passkey, a new Internet-based housing management system. SIGGRAPH will be held this July in Orlando, with more than 30 participating hotels. The June annual meeting of the...
I wouldn't call it bleeding edge, but it's definitely leading edge," says Steven Bearden, vice president, hospitality technology for Fidelity Investments, referring to the advanced technology at the new Seaport Hotel at the World Trade Center...
