Mobile Devices & Apps

Hilton Worldwide guests will have the ability to print wirelessly from their BlackBerry smartphones at 1,300 hotels worldwide within the company's portfolio of brands.

TenderCard has partnered with Giftango to offer gift cards digitally via email and to mobile phones.

Aloft's new Smart Check-In pilot program is allowing a select group of Starwood Preferred Guest members to skip the front desk at check-in and head directly to their rooms. Learn how this is providing guests with a new level of convenience, while freeing up front desk traffic.

Created in early 2010, Blue Shoe Mobile Solutions provides restaurant owners with a cost effective solution to joining the iPhone App mobile movement.

Mobile handheld devices equipped with the hotel SalesPro automated sales solution from hotel SystemsPro is helping Buffalo Lodging's sales team to cross-sell between brands, pull up essential client information and more.

The iPhone OS 4 beta release includes an updated Software Development Kit with more than 1,500 new Application Programming Interfaces and more than 100 new features that will be available to iPhone and iPod touch users this summer.

In this special report, Hospitality Technology peeks behind the "authorized personnel only" door to cover one of the most critical aspects of any hospitality operation: its workforce. Explore national labor predictions for the year ahead, labor management software innovations, mobile communication tools and more.

Hospitality Technology sits down with Scott Gibson, CIO and SVP of Distribution for Best Western International, for a candid perspective on when, where and how hotels can invest for greatest returns on guest satisfaction and on their bottom-line. Plus, Gibson shares his company's near-term tech priorities; for Best Western, an optimized web site ranks high on the list.