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The most famous current trends are mobile: toutch technology, AR and 3D. As the trends change so the consumer needs. Nowadays Apple is a huge brand company who sells a name and a trend. Each time they develop new market product such as iphones, GSP, mobiles and mostly Ipods most of the teenagers need those new goods so they will fell that they belong to the new and sofisticated generation. Most of the times those same teenagers don't need those goods (since most of them have the 6 months "old" ipod) but they will demanded to their parents just to be world technology updated

So what can a simple iphone/ipod change and update the Tourism Industry? Nowadays the iphone has billions of diffrent apps which some of them are related to the Tourims Industry. From hotel bookings to restaurant feedback these apps help the customers to nhave a diffrent overview.

Iphone Vs Ipod touch According to ( [|www.trendsupdates.com] ) the age of users for iPod touch are between 13 and 24 years old and for the Iphone the age of the users is over 25 years old. A survey made by the comScore can show us that the brand Apple is one of the favourite ones in the world for million of people. 78% is the percentage of the owners that has Ipod, the majority are teenagers. Trough this survey one can analyse that Iphone is a favourite one for parents. Also 70% of the Apple products are men and 40% is the number that people use more the Iphone than the laptop.

3-D Technology (3 Dimensional Technology) In the latest Consumer Electronics Show (CES 2011) at las Vegas, 3D technology is in different kinds of devices such as TVs, cameras, mobile phones, tablets, gaming devices. Also the new 3D technology does not need to wear the 3D glasses, the uses could view the 3D without wear glasses or other tools. 3D technology will be common in different device in the future, and people will have more access of 3D technology.

Foe example: Nintendo has release their latest handheld gaming device, the Nintendo 3DS. The Nintendo 3DS is not only a portable gaming device that the use can play 3D games, but also there are 3D camera within the device. Moreover, the use could adjust screen from 2D to 3D where comfortable for the user's view. media type="youtube" key="qZR_yFVETuU" height="390" width="640" Future Ideas of Technology media type="youtube" key="7H0K1k54t6A" height="390" width="480" Symantec Symantec is a virus protection program distributed by the Symantec Corporation. Symantec will also change the way business can protect and manage these non-standard application for discoery of business information. In Hospitality Industry, Symantec helps the industry to protects data which will help the organisation in the future to serve their clients better. media type="youtube" key="JxYVea3U0es" height="390" width="480" Mobile mobile based of communicated, SMS, MMS, GPRS and location sensing, powered by GPS as well as Wi-Fi and triangulation etc. The new version of the Android operating system, and could prove to be the iPhone killer that so many people have been waiting iPhone5 mobile technologies identified include, bluetoot h 3.0 specification will be devices will start to hit the shelves by 2011, expected that the 3.0 spec will include faster speeds, reportedly transferring files at 480 megabits per second in close proximity and 100 megabits per second at 10 meters.The new mobile technology, it’s easy to imagine how the ability to quickly upload, share and enjoy content would work with on-the-go gadgetry.

media type="youtube" key="zV8iC7Nqqlg" height="390" width="640" Augmented Reality is a direct or indirect view of a physical real-world environment which is like computer image, sound, smell can be augmented into real world. This techonology is ususally created by computer.

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media type="youtube" key="TW6_X9qBeds" height="390" width="480" For example, the First-person shooter video games usually using AR to give visual directions to a location because this can make the player to feel that they are in the real shooting game