While many mobile phones, PDAs, and iPods now have some rudimentary translation abilities, sometimes these devices aren’t quite up to the task of providing more comprehensive translation help.

It’s in these situations — whether you’re on an extended business trip or just a long vacation — that it may be prudent to spring for a dedicated translation device.

Since these gadgets are generally designed exclusively as translators, they often have features that modified iPods or PDAs don’t. So if you’re looking for some more advanced translation, consider one of the following.

The next time you’re on a plane, look around.

Almost everyone you see in your section has paid a different price for his or her seat.

Yet you’re all being served the same package of peanuts, and everyone has essentially the same in-flight experience.

Of course, if there were a rhyme or reason to the fare differentials — say Joe in Row 16 booked at the last minute, so he had to pay more, or Joanie in Row 12 reserved hers in advance through the airline’s website and thus scored a discount — air travel consumers might not mind.

Unfortunately, most frequent travelers will tell you that there really doesn’t seem to be any rhyme or reason… at least as far as they can tell.

Love to travel, yet hate to fly? If you find yourself white knuckling your armrests or gasping for breath whenever your flight takes off, you’re not alone.

Millions of Americans have some anxiety over flying, with symptoms ranging from mild concern to paralyzing panic attacks.

How can you learn to cope with your fears?

We’ve checked in with some experts on the subject to find out. To begin with, the fear of flying isn’t always about crashing. “In actuality, a large majority of people tend to be claustrophobic, and fear having a panic attack on the plane,” says Dr. David Carbonell, who runs the Anxiety Treatment Center, a private practice in Illinois comprised of a …

In the travel process, it remains one of the great inconveniences — and also one of the great wastes of time: checking luggage.

Some smart travelers have learned to pack less and limit their luggage to reasonable carry-on bags. But for the rest of us, who either haven’t learned how to do that, or simply have too much to bring with them, is there a solution?

If time is money, then there absolutely is a solution.

As you may know, I have checked only about three bags domestically in nearly ten years. The reason?

I’ve figured out that it would cost me about two hours of my life to check any bag: a long line to …

Most parents today wouldn’t consider leaving the driveway without their toddlers being fastened securely into their car seats.

Yet when traveling by plane — hundreds of miles per hour faster, and thousands of feet in the air — many of those same parents have no problem holding their little ones — unbuckled — in their laps throughout the flight.

An estimated 4.5 million children under the age of two fly each year in the United States. At this time, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) does not require infants and toddlers to be restrained or secured on aircraft during takeoff, landing, and turbulence, but instead permits them to be held on an adult’s lap, free …

Most people associate a vacation to the Rocky Mountains in the winter with skiing and snowboarding. But what if you don’t ski?

How much time can you spend drinking Hot Apple Pies in the lodge waiting for your ski-fanatic friends and family to show up?

Well, before you decide to stay home altogether, we’ve got great news: there can be a lot more to your Colorado vacation than just going up and down a mountain.

The following are just some of your options…

TELLURIDE

Located about 335 miles from Denver, Telluride has steep terrains and is known as a skier’s heaven, particularly for experts. But did you know that the area off the beaten track offers a …

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No one knows international culture and business like Peter Greenberg. With more than 11 million miles of direct experience under his belt, his perspective on globalization, trade and cross-cultural marketing–as well as travel, tourism, and all industries that feed off of them–is unprecedented.

“The distances stay the same, but the world gets smaller every year … and it affects everybody and every business in enormous ways.”

Greenberg has

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January 20, 2007

It’s a new year and more Americans are traveling than anytime in the last seven years. I’m one of them. I also travel most of the other 51 weeks — almost 400,000 miles a year.

Unfortunately, the airline industry is the only one that stays in business by abusing its best customers. And now, much of the hotel industry is following suit. Service and hospitality are being replaced by bottom-line thinking — and the results are awful. For that reason, a few well-considered new year’s resolutions would be good for everyone involved.

The airlines should resolve to:

Abolish the asterisk. Stop insulting us by advertising a flight to …