The Hook Up

Get the low down on the latest technical gadgets to help make your travels easier and open you up to discover more.

Wimbify, an LGBTQI travel app (Photo: Courtesy of Wimbify)

New Local Hero Guide Gives LGBTQI Travelers The Inside Scoop To Milan

Queer travelers heading to Milan have an easier way to meet locals through the newly launched Local Hero Guides project on the Wimbify app.

The new project connecting queer locals and travelers is searching for 300 guides to accommodate the estimated 3,000 LGBTQI travelers projected to visit the Milan this year.

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Tomales Farmstead Cheese (Photo: Courtesy of California Cheese Trail)

It’s The Cheese For The New California Cheese Trail App

It’s cheesy goodness along California’s Cheese Trail.

Now it’s easier than ever to find the more than 70 creameries in the Golden State with the California Cheese Trail’s new app launched July 19.

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Destinations on Google (Photo: Courtesy of Google)

Google Makes Turning Day Dream About Your Next Vacation Into Reality At Your Fingertips

Google is trying to make it easier for you to go on vacation.

Google launched “Destinations on Google” for mobile phones a new search feature that utilizes Google Flights and hotel search on Google and crowd sources using geolocation popular destinations to help you plan and book your next vacation.

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Women Tech Out

Women are geeking out putting their own touch of style on technology at Women 2.0 and Lesbians Who Tech Summit, two technology conferences geared just for the girls in San Francisco this month.

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Starwood Debuts the Ultimate New Travel App on iOS7

Starwood Preferred Guest (SPG®), the award-winning loyalty program from Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. (NYSE: HOT), today introduced an innovative and inspiring new app for iPad as well as an exciting new design to support iOS 7.

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Popular Airport App Comes to Android

It must have beguiled and infuriated business travelers during the past couple of years as they watched leisure travelers navigate through airports and into their cabs and shuttles seamlessly thanks to a handy airport app on their iPhones and iPads.

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Hotels are Joining the Free WiFi Wave, but there are Still Some Wipe Outs

How many times have you checked into a hotel, especially while on business, and grinded your teeth about not having free internet, or paying nearly $10 a day to get online for only one device?

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