People in the US (maybe 'the West') consider shrimp a delicacy, and what is a shrimp but a marine cockroach? It's all in the marketing.

Happily you can use Google to sync up your various devices now... not sure if it scales beyond my iPhone and a couple of varied Windows and Mac computers but it does nicely for my purposes. I'm sure everybody knows this, just thought I'd throw it in. PS It uses Active Sync!!!!

I'm a Govtrip user as well (the "E-Gov Travel Center for Excellence" just emailed me to tell me everything is just fine, so it must be back) and my primary question is why do we have defense contractors running internet travel sites?
Govtrip took a long time to become ready for prime-time and to this day isn't a model of the programming arts.

Wonder how much it costs...

A greater concern is "Electronic Questionnaires for Investigations Processing (e-QIP)". If you need a security clearance you go to the e-QIP site and put in your life history, friends, bank info, credit history, medical history, everything.
It's a identity thief's dream, absolutely everything needed for somebody else to become you. In fact someone with this kind of information would have a better claim to being you than YOU would.

But don't worry, it's hacker proof.

Had to be said.