24,'Mr. Aaron Greenspan',Every one of the tens (if not hundreds) of thousands of business travelers in the United States hates flying. More than ever, the airlines and government regulations make life difficult, with lost baggage, long security lines, weather delays, maintenance delays, and confusing gate changes all commonplace. The information necessary to alleviate many travel headaches is actually available, but it\'s not integrated in one place in a usable format, and certainly not in one place that travelers have easy access to. Fortunately, business travelers tend to have money to spare, and they are willing to do anything that will make their traveling experience less painful, however incremental the improvement to their life may be.','The iPhone is the perfect medium to deliver an integrated view of a travel itinerary. Far beyond the dates and times that most people assume itineraries to be limited to, Think\'s iPhone application would bring in data from airlines\' baggage tracking databases, flight arrival and departure information, frequent flier mile numbers and historical information, historical gate, flight number and airline delay information, and weather maps. It could also eventually be used to check into flights without having to wait in line to see an agent or use a kiosk. The bar codes that almost all airlines currently print on paper to create boarding passes could be easily displayed on an iPhone\'s high-resolution LCD screen. Essentially, the iPhone could keep track of every aspect of a traveler\'s life, and it would become an essential business tool as a result. The buzz surrounding the application could boost sales for Think, Apple, and even the airlines themselves, who desperately need the revenue.','Think Computer Corporation has a number of existing technology assets that would be helpful in the development of a web-based solution for the iPhone. Its Lampshade® LAMP framework makes web-based application development quick and easy. Think\'s CommonRoom social network is designed to give professionals and academics a secure way to share data and communicate. (It could be a useful integration point for Think\'s iPhone Travel application later on.) Think also has developed Exponent, a full-fledged business accounting system, similar to Oracle Financials or NetSuite. It could be extremely helpful for providing an easy way to track employee reimbursement expenses in the long term.','The Blackberry could also be used to provide similar features hypothetically, but no application exists to date (to our knowledge) that integrates everything in one place as proposed above.','Aaron Greenspan started Think from his bedroom in Shaker Heights, Ohio at the age of 15. While he attended high school, Aaron grew Think to support more than 150 businesses, individuals and schools across the United States and Canada. He subsequently changed the focus of the company from IT consulting to software development. Today, Think sells a line of web-based applications and software development tools including Lampshade, CommonRoom, Exponent, and Whiteboard.\r\n\r\nIn 1999, Aaron was the first place winner of the Junior Achievement Young IT Entrepreneur of the Year Award. He was also awarded the Kodak Young Leaders award, and has spoken at the NASA Kennedy Space Center. In October of 2000, Aaron spearheaded the creation of Think Computer Foundation, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization with the goal of helping children through technology. Aaron invented The Facebook while attending Harvard College in September, 2003. He graduated cum laude from Harvard in three years (Advanced Standing) with an A.B. in Economics in 2004.','Joel Sadler is a graduate student studying Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University. He previously worked at Apple, Inc. in the Digital Hub Product Design division, and is familiar with the Cocoa programming framework. Joel received his bachelor\'s degree from M.I.T.','','New',0,20080306125835,20080306125835);
I'd be willing to purchase something like this.