Disruptois a super trendy digital product agency based in New York City. The founders, including Jack Cheng, are all really big fans of drinking tea. Last year, Cheng and two of his colleagues launchedSteepster, an online tea community. Not long after launch, the eager entrepreneurs wanted to launch a tea of the month club so that they could deliver a monthly box with 3 different teas from tea companies around the world....

An English country hotel says it’s facing ruin after TripAdvisor suspected its management of faking a review on its website. As the Telegraphreportstoday, The Riverside Hotel and Restaurant, in Worcestershire, England, has been red-flagged by the ratings and review website, with a warning message now appearing on its page stating that “TripAdvisor has reasonable cause to believe that individuals or entities associated with or having an interest in this property may have interfered with traveler reviews and/or the popularity index for this property”....

HotelPalis a simple and elegant app that brings users the ability to find and book rooms across the planet from over 100,000 hotels. To start room hunting, users can input the desired hotel location by postal code/zip code, city name or use the GPS feature to let the app find you. HotelPal also sports an interactive map of the world that’s able to display hotel results by simply holding your finger down on a location....

Apparently hotels have had enough of our big fluffy white towel swiping antics. From now on, morals aside, you better think twice before walking out with a towel in your suitcase. Linen Technology Tracking, a company in Miami, has patented a washable RFID chip that can be sewn into towels, robes and bed sheets, allowing hotels to cut down on theft and keep track of their linens amid rising cotton prices....

We have been quite critical of Hotmail here on TNWmicrosoft over the years as we find the service to be feature-light, hard to navigate, and slow. Microsoft is working on those issues it seems, and whiletoday’s updatesto Hotmail will not sway many Gmail users to the platform, they do represent a noticeable, positive upgrade to the product. What has Microsoft built into Hotmail? A plethora of keyboard shortcuts from Gmail, Yahoo!...