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Four short links: 9 June 2020

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

The quote that caught my eye: “X companies control Y% of the US market in Z: X=2, Y=90, Z=beer; X=4, Y=almost all, Z=airlines; X=5, Y=50, Z=banks; X=2, Y=90, Z=health insurers in many states; X=1, Y=75%, Z=fast Internet, most places in the US; X=3, Y=70, Z=pesticides; X=3, Y=80, Z=seed corn.”

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Best App Development Tools For Cross-Platform Solutions in 2021

Xicom

With 90% of internet time spent on mobile applications by smartphone users, undoubtedly, mobile apps are dominatingly paving their way in every business sphere and creating an alarming situation for businesses to get started with their first-ever application now in 2021. Adobe PhoneGap: An Open-Source Cross-Platform Framework.

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Ditto raises $45M to help companies keep their data in sync

TechCrunch

Ditto provides a distributed database that runs “practically anywhere,” according to Fish and Alexander, enabling data distribution even in areas with limited or poor internet connectivity. And the open source, Airbyte-owned Grouparoo replicates info between databases and cloud-based tools.

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Decode The Development Of A Luxury Concierge App -Welcoming New Experience

Xicom

The following are two-open sources and customizable voice assistants that will let your app to make reservations, surf the internet, search for locations, and more. But, even the best AI services today, both proprietary and open-source, can’t compete with the acclaimed and dedicated concierge teams.

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Stand By For Reporting From the Intelligence and National Security Summit 18-19 Sep 2014 #Intelligence2014

CTOvision

Lewis and Dr. Rhonda Anderson of the ODNI National Intelligence Council will be moderating a panel of Dr Chris Reed (IARPA), Mr. Mark White (Deloitte) and myself on topics of the Internet of Things and its implication for intelligence. United Airlines. Director for Analysis, Open Source Center. Tom Conway. FireEye, Inc.

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Travel Agency Software: Choosing Tools for Booking, Accounting, Marketing, and Tour Building

Altexsoft

When online travel agencies started slowly but surely replacing traditional shops in 2005 , Internet-adept travelers had learned to book their trips on their home PC. To see where exactly a travel agency is positioned in the travel distribution flow, check out two handy infographics we created for airline management and hotel distribution.

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Technical Feasibility in Software Engineering: Things to Consider Before Development Starts

Altexsoft

Examples of massive, hard-to-develop platforms are property management systems for hotels, passenger service systems for airlines, and electronic health record systems for hospitals. Besides the stable Internet connection, more and more businesses become heavily dependent on low network latency. licensing options.