CONNECTED TRAVELLER

Start-ups want to dematerialise transport tickets to simplify users' lives. These start-ups met at the Transports Publics 2018 trade show, held from 12 to 14 June at Porte de Versailles.

On 14 June, Parnasse and Orange Cyberdefense unveiled two new offers for business travellers to secure their mobile phones and communications. Until now, these tools have been reserved for businesses.

SAP Concur surveyed some 4,000 employees in 6 European countries. The aim was to find out how they perceive artificial intelligence and its implications for business travel, particularly in terms of personalisation.

The world of hotels and restaurants came together on 4 and 5 June for the Food Hotel Tech exhibition. The event organisers brought together start-ups representing the latest trends in the industry.

Flying cars, connected objects, artificial intelligence: the innovations presented at the Viva Technology trade show are shaping the world of travel in the future.

As the European regulation on the processing of personal data (RGPD) comes into force on 25 May, Fabien Soulis, partner and head of Oppidum Security's technical division, describes the impact of this change on companies' information systems.

Specialist site 9to5 Google has spotted a new feature that allows Southwest Airlines boarding passes to be downloaded directly to the Google Pay app.

Tailor-made travel offers, securing the traveller's journey, luggage traceability, automated payments... Blockchain technology meets a large number of use cases. Aggregators, GDSs and other intermediaries could soon find themselves bypassed.

ARCEP has just given the go-ahead to Inmarsat to use stations on French soil as part of the European EAN programme, aimed at providing in-flight broadband internet. IAG is set to be the first airline group to offer such a service.

The latest update to Sam, FCM's chatbot for business travellers, includes a version for travel managers. The application also covers more countries and promises new features.

Huawei's latest top-of-the-range handset plays the photo card, but also the artificial intelligence card, the facial recognition card, the design card with its edge-to-edge screen... In short, it plays on all fronts to make sure it ticks all the boxes when it comes up against the Apple and Samsung benchmarks.

The DeepL website launched a professional version on 20 March. It offers new options and can now be integrated into other software or applications.

Europe is putting an end to digital borders for streaming platforms such as Netflix from 1 April. Molotov.tv has just removed these barriers ahead of the deadline.

Lufthansa has recently been testing a humanoid robot called Josie Pepper in Terminal 2 at Munich airport. A first for a German platform.

The world's biggest mobility event is in Barcelona, with the Mobile World Congress, where over 100,000 trade visitors from more than 200 countries come to discover the new products on offer from more than 2,300 exhibitors on site. As well as a large section devoted to the development of telecoms networks, with the famous 5G omnipresent in the run-up to its planned roll-out in 2020, we took you through the aisles of the Fira Barcelona exhibition centre. Here you'll find a selection of the best smartphones on show at this major telephony event, as well as laptops and the security and storage solutions to go with them.

At the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, the world's leading Korean manufacturer is presenting the new generation of its star smartphone, the S9. With a strong focus on photography, it rounds out its performance in almost every area. A year of gentle evolution.

Samsung's new "Flip" device is set to conquer conference rooms. Users can write on the touch screen and share their work, as well as projecting their computer's display.

The "Travel & Expense" offering is evolving. Notilus recently announced the launch of two new services: intelligent character recognition (OCR) and archiving with evidential value. At the same time, Sodexo made official the deployment of Xpenditure on the French market, which will be integrated into a global business travel solution, scheduled for spring 2018.

A new partnership has been formed between the start-up Rythm and AccorHotels. A test has been launched in two Pullman hotels, in Paris and San Francisco, which are providing their guests with the Dreem headband, a device designed to improve the user's sleep.

BCD Travel is launching SolutionSource, an open technology platform offering third-party solutions to travel managers and procurement officers to optimise travel programmes.