"Telestial, a leading provider of low cost mobile phone solutions for the international traveler, announces an agreement with Travelocity that will offer overseas bound Travelocity customers the lowest rates and options for avoiding excessive fees typically associated with international cell phone calls.
In conjunction with a purchase of international airfare, airfare/accommodation or car rental on Travelocity, Telestial will be offering Travelocity customers a savings of 70% off already low Telestial package rates. Telestial charges far less than cell phone rental companies and also less than what U.S. carriers charge for international roaming, giving customers access to the local call rates at destinations that Telestial covers around the world.

...In an integrated campaign of advertising, e-marketing and promotion, Travelocity customers will be offered exclusive savings on Telestial products and services including the purchase of unlocked GSM world phones and a variety of pre-paid SIM cards (no contracts necessary) with free incoming calls around the world."

"Google Apps for Your Domain lets you offer our communication and collaboration tools to your entire organization customizable with your branding, color scheme and content through the administrative control panel, and with no hardware or software to install or maintain."

"The USPTO published yesterday a patent awarded to Google that provides clues to Google's plans for social search, including details about how Google will use human editors to help facilitate algorithmic search.

The patent, system and method for supporting editorial opinion in the ranking of search results, describes processes whereby Google can better judge user search intent based upon whether the query matches a "theme" of queries on Google's servers."

"Google CEO Eric Schmidt believes television viewers should not have to stand for tv commercials that are "a waste of your time."...Google is preparing to deliver “targeted measurable television ads” and Schmidt says Google has “a good shot at it.”....

"Marriott International, Inc. (NYSE:MAR) today announced that it has begun testing mobile wireless check-in for Microsoft's Windows Mobile®-powered devices on end-to-end Intel Architecture for a select group of travelers to Redmond (Wash.) Marriott Town Center."

The mistake occured, AOL says, because the proper internal procedures for such postings were not followed. "It was an innocent enough attempt to reach out to the academic community with new research tools, but it was obviously not appropriately vetted, and if it had been, it would have been stopped in an instant," the company said.