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Avoiding a Stay at a Haunted Hotel And Why We Need a Travel App for That

CIO Business Intelligence

Imagine booking a room at a small, charming, off-the-beaten-path hotel on the Hawaiian island of Kauai using a popular mobile travel app, only to discover that the room is… haunted! Even now, an SAP customer or partner could be developing such a tool. That’s what happened to my friend Dana. But that didn’t go as planned.

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MWC 2022: 5G software, service assurance and sustainability

TM Forum

There was, however, a noticeable lack of delegates from APAC and particularly China whose Covid-19 isolation rules meant attendance would have involved a month’s worth of quarantine in various hotels. And Ericsson signed a hardware, software and services deal with Zain KSA live at the event for a new charging platform.

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A list of 20 interesting and weird indie games developed in the Pacific Northwest

GeekWire

(Seattle Indies Image) Every fall in Washington state, hobby designers, garage developers, and eccentric tinkerers get together to show off their independently-produced video games at a two-part event, the Seattle Indies Expo. Rosen, its sole designer, is a Seattle-based software engineer, and Abbot’s Gambol is his first project.

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Tech Moves: Former Ada Developers Academy CEO joins venture studio; Riveter co-CEO steps down; and more

GeekWire

The former CEO of Ada Developers Academy said she will focus on Conduit’s health and performance vertical. She previously founded a hotel co-working startup that The Riveter acquired. based cloud software company Acumatica appointed Jeff Smits as chief information officer. Kirkland, Wash.-based

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Symantec Government Symposium 11 March 2014 at the Renaissance Hotel Washington DC

CTOvision

The Symantec Government Symposium features 10 sessions where attendees will: Explore how agencies can develop a process for incident response prioritization and use actionable intelligence throughout the entire threat lifecycle. Timothy Molino , Director, Government Relations, BSA | The Software Alliance. – 12:30 p.m.

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With new chip, augmented reality startup Ixana claims breakthrough in quest for ‘wearable brain’

GeekWire

A previously unknown Seattle startup, founded by semiconductor and technology industry veterans, says it has developed an energy-efficient chip capable of running advanced AI applications on lightweight, wireless augmented reality headsets that will operate all day without recharging. The chip has also benefitted from more than $3.5

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

GeekWire

But he is a self-described “naive innovator” — a quality that helps him develop out-of-the-box ideas that turn into successful startups. ” 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.

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