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Uncommon Thinkers: UW prof and entrepreneur Shwetak Patel has a rare ‘creative brilliance’

GeekWire

Uncommon Thinkers is presented in partnership with Greater Seattle Partners. He isn’t a licensed electrician. ” Patel (top left) grew up in Alabama, where his parents ran a hotel and the family lived in an adjacent apartment. They were engineers, but ended up managing a hotel. Read other profiles here.

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Ugh! There's an App for That!

Phil Windley

Figuring out how to present these, which forms to fill out, and who cared led to a bit of stress. Once in Munich, venturing out of the hotel had its own surprises. Beyond health pass applications, things like mobile drivers licenses need to be interoperable to be useful.

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Inside Climate Pledge Arena: New venue is a ‘very Seattle’ mix of high-tech and deluxe experiences

GeekWire

Preserving the historic roof presented a 44-million-pound renovation and engineering challenge as it was detached from 20 original concrete Y-columns and four gigantic buttresses that previously supported it. Nine sizable pieces of public art have been installed and visitors can engage further via QR code on their mobile devices.

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Strategic positioning in the flow economy: 3 action steps

Trends in the Living Networks

Walk into a youth hostel or budget hotel in any exotic country around the world, and you’re more than likely to see someone reading a guidebook from Lonely Planet, the dominant global brand in budget travel. Standards are the very basis of this mobile connectivity. Strategic positioning in the flow economy.

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We asked seven venture capitalists if the metaverse is the next big thing or just a lot of hype

GeekWire

And will this represent a tectonic technological platform shift — along the lines of the internet and mobile revolutions — or is it simply a lot of hot air? In fact, Axios reported last week that the term had been used 128 times in investor presentations this year, up from seven in the prior year. Has this changed?

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Data mining for B2B churn and loyalty management in India and South Asia

TM Forum

A PwC report titled “Finding value for the consumer in The Indian mobile industry” mentions the churn problem in India and suggests a switch from prepaid to a postpaid connection to avoid churn. According to [15], the author concludes that churn analysis is applicable to the noncontractual B2B hotel industry.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Teslas

ForAllSecure

And at the time, while you couldn't necessarily start the car, you still needed the fob to present when you hit the start button. So the standards body that oversees the development of Bluetooth standards and licensing. And ironically, the Bluetooth SIG met in the same hotel where CanSecWest is being held today. In this case.

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