Egypt adds $25 tax on airline tickets

Egypt adds tax on airline tickets
CAIRO (AP) - Egyptian authorities have levied a new airport tax on tourists leaving the country, a move that has been criticized as being a further deterrent for vacationers considering the country as a holiday destination, an airport official said ...
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Fliers check travel sites, then buy from airline sites
Twenty-nine percent say they typically search for airline tickets on websites of online travel agents such as Expedia and Orbitz, and 22% say they use travel search engines such as Kayak and TripAdvisor. Most survey respondents - 59% - say they usually ...
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Google Maps Adds Driving Directions for North Korea

Google Maps Adds Driving Directions for North Korea
Google has officially debuted driving directions for North Korea on its Google Maps service — assuming, of course, that the company has been able to map out the roads between wherever you are now and wherever your final destination might be.
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5 apps for traffic and driving directions
Google Maps is just about the standard when it comes to getting directions on the go. In fact, it comes pre-loaded on most phones. Before you go on your next road trip, make sure you have the most updated version - it's got lots of cool new features ...
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Amazon adds streaming Prime Music to play against Apple's Beats

Amazon adds streaming Prime Music to play against Apple's Beats
Prime Music makes Amazon one of the rare companies offering both music downloads (songs that you can buy) and subscriptions. Most subscriptions services like Beats Music and Spotify focus on streaming the songs for a set fee, though Spotify and ...
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Apple cracking down on apps offering third-party music downloads, incentivized ...
Music-Download-apps-iOS-8 Apple has reportedly started cracking down on apps offering the ability to download music from third-party services like YouTube that normally don't allow users to do so. In addition, a separate report claims that Apple has ...
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Jeff library system now offers free music downloads
Librarian Lesli Scott said patrons of the Jeffersonville and Clarksville branches can now log in using their library card and a PIN number to download up to three songs each week from the Sony Music catalog, which has more than 7 million songs from 280 ...
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