Innovation

Since its official release in July 2009, Pizza Hut's revolutionary and award-winning iPhone/iPod touch application has created an innovation 'explosion' in the mobile communication front. Pizza Hut's Baron Concors, CIO; Kevin Fish, project manager; and Carlos Chavez, director of eCommerce technology dish on the winning strategy that launched its first-to-market, million-dollar food ordering application.

Twitter is taking hospitality e-marketing by storm, yet this social tool is not without its challenges. Get educated on a host of specialized Twitter tools and applications that are designed to help operators to better manage and analyze their social networking efforts.

The GDX Universal Billing Interface System (GDX UBIS) is a comprehensive web-based hotel solution to manage telephone and services usage at variable tariffs, delivering optimal revenues and tight cost control through more responsive administration of exchanges and systems.

Thanks to spill over from military and government agencies, video surveillance systems in hospitality are becoming more and more sophisticated through the integration of analytic applications that turn traditional video into uber intelligence gathers.

The service allows Heathrow Airport travelers to receive boarding passes electronically on their cell phones or PDAs and eliminates the need for paper boarding passes.

The initiative includes new solution offerings and an integrated partner program focused on enhancing restaurant technology's ability to help operators solve key new industry challenges and support sweeping changes in consumer behavior.

RateTiger's premium channel management product has now also been developed for the iPhone, giving hoteliers greater flexibility with rates and availability when unable to access a computer.

NEC Display Solutions of America has partnered with Project Leadership Associates to develop VUKUNET, a universal advertising platform powered by NEC that connects digital out-of-home networks with ad revenue.