Travolution reports this week that ebookers, a subsidiary of Cendant Corporation, is currently having issues with Google. The reports are correct as the site www.ebookers.co.uk has been dropped from Google search results, with only six “supplemental” pages in the search engine. The domain also ...

Good news! You can now read travel rants on your travels - laying on Bondi beach in Sydney Australia, walking over the Great Wall of China, or whilst having breakfast with Mickey Mouse in Florida, USA. Travel Rants has gone mobile - you can now read ...

Travel companies promoting tourist attractions will soon be able to offer 3D virtual reality tours on the Internet thanks to Microsoft’s prototype technology, called Photosynth. Companies will be able to take a series of photos and use these to create a virtual tour ...

If there’s one thing that annoys me, it is the cost of calls from abroad on my mobile telephone. I’m not very organised when it comes to checking my mobile phone statement, but today, I decided I was going to be organised and look ...

A British-designed jet engine that flies at eight times the speed of sound has been successfully tested in Australia. The 5000mph "scramjet" developed by British company QinetiQ could cut journey times between London and Sydney to just two hours. It was testing a revolutionary ...

Iris-scanning immigration control technology has been rolled out to another terminal at Heathrow Airport. The pilot for Iris began at Heathrow Terminals 2 and 4 in June 2005. The bomb attacks on London in July 2005 caused the enrolment facilities to be closed ...

Even though the Aeroscraft dwarfs the largest commercial airliners, it requires less net space on the ground than any plane because it doesn't need a runway. The airship takes off and lands like a helicopter: straight up and down. This is not a Blimp. It's ...