12 Must Have Tools for Business Travellers
By ajay at August 20, 2011 | 11:50 am | Print
Planning for business trip via car? Here are few web apps & tools that you should check out to make your business travel smooth and tension free.
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Viamente Route Planner makes the route planning process simple and efficient. All that is needed is to import addresses and constraints.
Viamente offers end-to-end solutions for the optimization of pickup and/or delivery routes via a number of intuitive and compelling Web Applications, where you can easily interact to manage your fleet dynamically.Viamente knows the way to reduce the driving time to a minimum. It is not the link between two points, it’s the shortest route to visit all your destinations.
Viamente Route Planner is designed to optimize routes for one or more vehicles in complex scenarios: multiple locations, multiple starting and end points, limited load capacity, time slots, different service times, compatibility issues.
Just with a single click, the optimal routes become visible on the maps.
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The Anti Sleep Pilot calculates how tired you are, maintains your alertness and lets you know when it is time to take a break.
The Anti Sleep Pilot automatically registers the conditions that affect your level of tiredness when you drive. It helps you to stay alert while you drive and constantly calculates your fatigue level using reaction times from tests, which maintain alertness, among other things.
To use Anti Sleep Pilot, all you have to do is remove the film and attach the magnetic base to your car.And you’re done.While driving, Anti Sleep Pilot continuously calculates how fatigued you are and keeps you updated of this on its display. The calculation is based on your personal risk profile, your fatigue status before the trip combined with driving data, which Anti Sleep Pilot automatically registers using sensors. In total 26 scientifically identified parameters are used.
Waze is empowering drivers everywhere to share real-time driving data and build a constantly updated driving map, from the road map itself, all the way to traffic and even free available parking.
Waze will provide drivers with an insight to what’s actually happening on the roads, and select the best route to their destination at any given moment.
By simply driving around with the waze client installed on their smart phones, drivers share in real time information that translates into traffic conditions and road structure. Users can also actively report to the community on traffic, accidents and incidents, speed cams and police traps, blocked roads and more. This information is collected and analyzed in real time to provide waze drivers with the optimal route to their destination at any given moment.
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Topguest is a very interesting free members-only service that gives you exclusive travel perks, real hotel points and air miles automatically, simply for using popular social media services including Facebook, Foursquare, Instagram, Twitter, and Gowalla.
You’ll automatically receive these perks after just a few check-ins (usually 5 or less) at the associated partner places, Some perks include free rounds of drinks, spa passes, complimentary stay credits, 25% off premier rooms at top-flight hotels, and so on. Many of the most exclusive hotels in the world offer Topguest perks, such as Shangri-La, Thompson, Standard, and Viceroy.
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Tango is free video calling service that connects people around the world with friends and family from wherever they are. Free video calls can be made by anyone who has downloaded Tango to their iPhone, iPod touch, iPad or Android devices. Whether you’re out and about, at home, or in the office, Tango for all your calls because you never know where the conversation will take you.
You can download Tango free( its free download software).For using it just download and register first.Then with a single tap you can invite your friends through email or a text message to Tango with you. Your friends will receive a personal invite from you and once they register, you can Tango immediately. If your friends already have Tango installed on their phone, their name appears in your Tango Contacts list. Just tap their name and start to Tango.Tango can be found in the App Store and Android Market.
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Square is a new way to pay.Its service enables anyone to accept credit cards anywhere. Square makes payments simple and enables people from all walks of life to accept credit and debit cards.
You can use it by plugging it into your phone.Its free credit card reader can easily be plugged into a phone or iPad. Square currently accepts US issued Visa, MasterCard, American Express, and Discover cards.
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TrafficTalk is offering a free service for drivers on mobile phones, where people come together in a LIVE conference environment and share details about traffic conditions, helping one another avoid or escape back-ups. TrafficTalk helps you make informed decisions, taking the stress out of your everyday commute. With TrafficTalk, you get all the perspectives — from people on the main roads and others trying alternate routes.
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Zoombu makes it easy for you to find the best journey for your trip. It simply let you enter your starting address, destination address, and dates of travel, and then they search door-to-door routes in between.
Its search engine contains the routing information and logic necessary to find the optimal journeys from A to B. You can pick out the most relevant routes for you based on your personal preferences.
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viaPlace is to enable its users to view digital information at a geospatial location.It will provide your users to deliver content based on their location.
It alerts users when they have entered the space of, or approached geographically located information, and then allows the end user to view that information or associated experience.
It can provide travelers information about bus routes and schedules based on where they are. Provide real-time flight and gate information when they pull up to the airport.
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Travel-Office is an office technology totally portable, powered by the batteries of computers and their components. The most amazing quality of this product is it can function without being attached to the mains for several hours. In addition to a netbook, available in different configurations and powers, you will also find the microproiettore 3M, which can afford to hold small conferences, as projected images up to 50 inches. The DocuPen scanner, the size of a pen, which allows high-quality scans in A4 format. There is a printer, a headset, Skype compatible VOIP.
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Now you don’t have to worry if you are traveling and you want to access wifi everywhere you go.Why? Just use WaiFi.com while on go.WaiFi.com is to make WiFi connectivity easy, secure, and free wherever you go.
You can expand their WiFi Hotspots database by adding your favorite WiFi Hotspots access points to the map.
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Route4Me is all about finding you shortest route available. It will try to find you maximum possible shortest route available to reach your destinations.Route4Me is different from traditional navigation websites.
When you enter multiple addresses into its system, it’ll automatically calculate thousands or millions of route combinations to bring back the shortest possible route between all your destinations – so you don’t have to zig-zag across town.
Just enter the addresses you want to visit in any order, and it”ll instantly give you the most optimal and shortest route driving directions. You can enter full street addresses, or even just ZIP codes, airport codes, or names of well-known landmarks.
