Had a chance to sit down with airport guru Harriet Baskas today, and learned a lot about how airports are (or are not) catering to the needs of business travelers. One of the topics I wanted to get into with her about was the dearth of power outlets in most airports. I wanted to ask [...]

According to the Telegraph.
The European Commission has apparently decided to approve the use of mobile phones and mobile phone equipment on planes in Europe, but most everything else is up to the airlines and the mobile phone carriers:

The final decision will be left to individual airlines, with Bmi, Ryanair and Portugal’s TAP planning to offer [...]

Using solar powered luggage, this is completely possible.
Fortune Small Business wrote about various solar-powered luggage options available to travelers looking to spend about $150 to $250 on a messenger bag.
Their favorite option? Reware’s Juice Bag, which costs $170, and I snagged their picture for this post. It looks wonky to me, but hey, anything with [...]

Not every business traveler is flying on a fat corporate account. For those of you running your own small business, or traveling on a fixed (small) budget, there are plenty of resources to help you snag the cheapest fare when you travel.
In the past, I’ve had pretty good luck just logging into Kayak and [...]

Last week there was an article in the New York Times about business travelers who found inspiration for their current work while on business trips. The idea is simple: who gets ideas when they sit in a drab little cubicle? People need external stimulation:
Creative inspiration often strikes at the most unexpected times — in the [...]

Business 2.0 has an awesome piece up about how to mitigate, deal with, or beat various snags that will inevitably turn up in the schedule of any seasoned traveler.
Some of the tips are more obvious than others (like traveling with a wi-fi card instead of relying on hotspots), but some of the services, numbers, [...]

Over at Macworld there is a great list of applications that come in handy for people who use their laptops as their main machines (yes, granted, they do mean Mac laptops).
When I bought my MacBook Pro just over a year ago, I moved all my work related stuff over from my desktop. Now my [...]