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With the touch of their finger, hotel guests can adjust the lighting, drapes and climate in their guest rooms from a touch screen or laptop.

The app allows Rancho La Puerta guests to view instructional fitness videos, recipes, photos, news, updates, connect with social networking and more.

Hypercom's new M5000 is an in-hand mobile payment system with a vibrant 3.5" color icon-capable touch screen display that enables new ways to interact with the cardholder.

By choosing MOTOTRBO over cellular push-to-talk technology, the JW Marriott San Antonio Hill has been able to save $14,000 per month in service fees, significantly improving its response time to guest requests. Plus the hotel expects to achieve full return on investment within 18 months.

In addition to the newly released specifications, the HTNG board of directors just approved the charters of two new workgroups to address cellular coverage and entertainment systems.

In part two of this series, discover the new technologies that could potentially save hoteliers a lot of money in infrastructure and legal video content fees for real-time, VOD, and streaming Internet content.

Silverstar's new BI system has greatly enhanced and simplified data analysis by providing an in-depth single view of data across all departments.

Analysts identify cloud computing, mobile applications and social communication among the top most strategic technologies for organizations in 2011.