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The Ultimate List of Helpful iPad Applications for Small Business Owners

By Carla B King


There's a virtual flood of totally free and paid iPhone apps for business travelers within the iTunes store. It is gotten to a point where road warriors cannot find a helpful app unless they know its name beforehand. This means someone's got to suggest it first, so here's a listing of the leading 10 applications, with brief descriptions.

For starters, the built-in maps that come with the iPhone are among the most helpful of all of the available applications. To add to this, it's also possible to obtain the Google Maps application. But this is not the same as the Navigation application from Google, which can only be utilized on Android enabled phones, and does not work on Apple's devices.

Maps aside, the next most important require is discover and book flights and hotels. Probably the most helpful 1 for this is the application from Kayak, which is a metasearch engine where a traveler can compare costs and other functions of different flights from numerous airlines on the exact same route. Another new one known as Hipmunk also makes it a great deal simpler to find the proper flights and hotels.

To manage and keep track of every thing that comes following this first air/hotel booking, the best application is Tripit. There isn't anything else very like it, so consider this 1 amongst the essential of iPhone apps for business travelers. Once a traveler sends it the initial booking, the service will automatically track and list all subsequent bookings for the trip in question into a single itinerary.

1 of these things that come subsequently is restaurant search and booking. To obtain the best possible combination, use Open Table and LocalEats. The latter is able to use GPS to locate the very best restaurants nearby, based on reviews by local food critics. Reviews apart, Open Table's reservation program for mobile users is probably the best of the lot.

To create airports and flying a much more comfortable encounter, you will find some applications that can ease the discomfort. The foremost among these are FlightTrack Pro and FlightCaster. The former, developed by Mobiata, offers real-time flight delay and cancellation information on more than 1400 airlines in over 5000 airports around the world. Flightcaster is perhaps even better, since it can forecast whether or not a flight is going to be delayed. It offers the possible length of the delay and suggests alternate bookings.

A traveler who wants to find out more about a business may also want to use the Google Locations application. It can offer instant info and reviews for any business, as long as the company has a Location Page. It's especially helpful for sales executives on the road, when they're creating cold calls and want to know more about an establishment just prior to going in.

To be noted that there are lots of other applications that are just as helpful, and sometimes might be even much more important. For example, destination-specific applications are very useful and can offer local info about local transport, wi-fi zones, tickets for events, public use facilities, shops, etc. So additionally to the aforementioned top 10 iPhone apps for company travelers, also keep an eye out for applications that focus on the destination.




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