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Paper Airline Tickets On The Brink Of Extinction
Luddite travelers may need to start making geek friends because the paper airline ticket will be all but extinct by the end of May.
Replacing paper tickets, and the elaborate global system that processed them, with electronic ticketing will save airlines $3 billion annually on the roughly 400 million tickets sold outside of the United States alone, according to the New York Times.
Apparently, 96.86 percent of tickets sold in the United States, Puerto Rico and the United States Virgin Islands last month were electronic, so it does appear that most people are able and willing to travel the digital way.
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HP Unveils the Web-Friendly Photosmart Premium Printer
This morning here in San Francisco, HP announced their first web-enabled printer called the TouchSmart. With a touchscreen control panel that has the look and feel of an iPhone, the TouchSmart will offer apps that make it easy for one-touch printing. HP has already teamed up with companies like Fandango (movie-ticket printing), Google (maps, calendar printing, etc.), USA Today (news article printing), and Nickelodeon (kids activities) to offer useful applications.
Daily Tech: Rock Band Drops $20 at Target
- From Feb. 17-23, Target will be offering the PS3 and 360 versions of the special-edition Rock Band bundle for only $149. — Joystiq
- Alaska Airlines has decided to make the switch from ticket counters to touch screens.
T-Mobile to Offer Free Flights on Black Friday
From November 23 to 25, T-Mobile will be offering free airline tickets to new and existing customers—with one catch. New customers will need to sign-up on with T-Mobile myFaves plan to become eligible to receive a free flight from 59 major U.S. cities to one of 10 destinations.
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