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Tech Moves: Highspot adds executives; Blue Origin vets depart; Disney hires former Microsoft exec

GeekWire

He made his mark at Microsoft as the leader of the company’s intellectual property group, implementing a strategy of patent licensing and litigation. Before Red Hat, Whitehurst served as COO of Delta Airlines. Following Karman Systems’s acquisition of Systima, Taylor Banks is now CFO of Karman Missile and Space Systems.

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Digital identity startup Evernym sells to Avast, looks to bring trust to a decentralized internet

GeekWire

That pass is a digital credential that allows airlines and governments to verify travel and health documents, including COVID-19 test results. “This could be a log-in credential, but it could also be a vaccine record, diploma, hotel reservation, driver’s license, etc.

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10 emerging innovations that could redefine IT

CIO Business Intelligence

The fascination in the idea comes from the observation that AI models don’t need the same kind of precision as, say, bank ledgers. A number of high-profile software failures at companies like Southwest Airlines or EasyJet show how code that runs well most of the time can also fail spectacularly.

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Strategic positioning in the flow economy: 3 action steps

Trends in the Living Networks

In addition, Lonely Planet licenses its brand for a television travel series that is screened worldwide, and now it even publishes world music CDs. American Airlines was a very early leader in redefining its participation in the emerging information flows in the economy. You can: • Build. Form Alliances. Virtualize.

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Building Identity Systems on the Sovrin Network

Phil Windley

For example, I may have a credential representing my drivers license and one representing my employee ID. Yet, because they're based on a metasystem and use a common protocol, I could go to the bank and use those in concert to prove that I'm employed (employee ID) and my date of birth (drivers license) at the same time in one operation.

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Notes from the PR and New Media Summit - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

He did use quite a few examples of how organizations including Southwest Airlines, General Motors, and others, though unfortunately no Australian cases. Telstra had seen that consumer perceptions of the company had sunk below that of the major banks (extremely low in Australia), so there was little to lose.

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Multi-Source Identity

Phil Windley

When you use Sovrin to authenticate with your bank, they know it's you and you know it's them. You might have a Sovrin-based relationship with your bank. And you likely have a relationship with the state, and credentials they issue representing your birth certificate or drivers license. The list goes on.