Hyatt Business Plan Brings Civility To The Road Warrior

Source: andyabramson.blogs.com

Over in London I enjoy staying in the Andaz, a hotel property of Hyatt that was designed by the famed Terrance Conran. It’s a converted hospital less than a 100 yards from Liverpool Street Station. At the Andaz I get free coffee, free laundry for essentials, refreshed water, free broadband and a few other perks.

Well it seems parent Hyatt is realizing that in tough business times that they need to upgrade what the give their bread and butter guests, so they are taking a page out of the Andaz’s book and launching the Hyatt Business Plan Package which includes many of the same services and features.

Given how Hilton and Marriott are faltering of late, with sub-par service and an inconsistent experience from property to property, I can say that Hyatt, Sofitel (Accor) and Inter-Continental are of the major corporate brands doing more to be consistent with their guests. While I tend to still look for boutique hotels that cater to the business via Tablet Hotels, I do appreciate it when the major brands take a step forward like Hyatt is doing and seek to improve the business travelers experience from check-in to check out.

Published on November 16th, 2008 under


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Contingency Response Communications System Uses, VoIP, Wireless Internet to Connect Agencies

Source: www.voip-news.com

-news.comDevMar Associates are now a distributor for AAR’s Contingency Response Communications System. The communications system is intended to provide local, state and federal agencies wit…

Published on June 19th, 2009 under , , , , , , , ,

Languedoc Hillsides At Dusk

Published on June 14th, 2009 under ,

Cablevision Understands The Needs of Their Customers

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The more and more I look at Cablevision, the New York area cable company, the more I always sense that of all the major cable operators in the USA, they know their customers best.
Their mov…

Published on June 13th, 2009 under , , ,

Google Android Users Get VoIP

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The company behind PBXes, i-p-tel of Germany has developed and released a VoIP client for the Google Android, called SipDroid. It takes advantage of the WiFi stack and the recently made availab…

Published on June 13th, 2009 under , , , , , ,

HD Voice Comes to Business

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Just a few weeks after the HD Voice conference organized by pal Jeff Pulver, comes news from New York area cable operator Cablevision that they are rolling out an HD Voice platform for business…

Published on June 5th, 2009 under , ,

IPLogic Customers Can Now Tap Smoothstone’s IP Communications Offerings

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-news.comSmoothstone and IPLogic Inc. have formed a partnership. Now IPLogic clients will be able to take advantage of Smoothstone’s hosted IP communications services and on-demand applications…

Published on June 4th, 2009 under , , ,

VoIPuser’s Dean Elwood Featured

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Pal Dean Elwood was featured in a nice post this week…

Published on May 22nd, 2009 under , , ,

Verizon Mobile Disaster Unit Uses VoIP To Connect

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-news.comWhen there are natural or human-caused disasters, you need communication to be restored quickly and kept up so that critical communications can reach their destination. Verizon Business’s…

Published on May 22nd, 2009 under , , , , , ,

Another One Bites The Dust-Foonz

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Alec Saunders has a very good analysis on why free conferencing call service Foonz has bitten the dust.
Long time readers (and listeners of KenRadio’s World Technology Roundup) will know…

Published on May 22nd, 2009 under , , ,

What Will HD Voice Do for Businesses?

Source: www.voip-news.com

-news.comWhat’s the future of high-def voice? Global IP Solutions recently polled participants in a webinar about how they think it will be applied.
Of those polled, 57 percent said that conferenc…

Published on May 21st, 2009 under , ,

The FCC’s New Customer-Friendly VoIP Rule

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-news.comSometimes when the FCC makes a new rule it’s for the better. That’s the case this week when the FCC approved a new rule that requires failing VoIP vendors to give their customers…

Published on May 14th, 2009 under , , , ,

Diamond Management & Technology Consultants Now Using Mobility XE

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-news.comDiamond Management & Technology Consultants is now using NetMotion Wireless’s Mobility XE, the latest version of its Mobile VPN. The company, which has more than 600 employees…

Published on May 13th, 2009 under , , , ,

TeleCable to Use OneAccess Tech For VoIP Access

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-news.comOneAccess will be assisting TeleCable in providing new telecommunications services with VoIP technology for their Asturias business customers. TeleCable will be using a One Access ONE100…

Published on May 13th, 2009 under , , , ,

The V In VoIPWatch isn’t Just Voice any More

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Of late I’ve become consumed with the idea of video and the Internet. It’s a harking back of sorts to my early days along with Ken Rutkowski when we were working on a content company…

Published on May 7th, 2009 under , , , ,

PROGNOSIS VoIP Monitor Now Available for Avaya Customers

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-news.comAvaya customers around the world will now have access to PROGNOSIS voice quality monitoring solutions from Integrated Research, thanks to a new agreement between the two companies…

Published on May 5th, 2009 under , , , ,

Is Apple Outthinking the Mobile Industry?

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For those who deal with the mobile industry on a daily basis the idea of "the carrier is the one who makes the rules" would not be a surprise.
But when it comes to Apple, one has to…

Published on April 30th, 2009 under , , , ,

Carphone Warehouse Looking to Buy Tiscali/UK

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On the surface one has to say, "so, what does this matter" when the news emerged on Friday that UK mobile retailing giant Carphone Warehouse may buy UK broadband operator Tiscali.
First…

Published on April 26th, 2009 under , , ,

T-Mobile 3G USB Stick-First Impressions

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My first thoughts about T-Mobile’s 3G card for USA are … this.
1) No Mac support yet. But it is coming they promise.
2) Coverage area-very spotty so far, at least in San Diego County…

Published on April 24th, 2009 under , , , , ,

VoWiFi Phones Approved for Use in Mines

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-news.comThe U.S. Federal Mine Safety and Health Administration has now fully approved ActiveMine from Active Control Technology. The wireless voice communications and locating system is designed…

Published on April 24th, 2009 under , , , , , ,

Webinar TODAY: IT Optimization and the Obama Stimulus Plan

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-news.comWe’ve all heard about the Stimulus Plan that President Obama passed soon into his presidency. But what does the influx of money earmarked for IT development actually mean for IT organizations…

Published on April 21st, 2009 under , , , , ,
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