Portable phones, electronic hotel locks and Palm Pilots have replaced those vestiges of a clunkier age, creating an illusion of wireless mobility.
(In valet mode, the cubby can be locked with a four-digit passcode, in the manner of a hotel lock-box).
Rental bikes can, for example, be sited right outside a hotel, locked to street furniture, to capitalize on passing demand from tourists.
There's a seaside place in the eastern part of India; we found a low-cost deal at a hotel, locked ourselves in, and for seven days we just focused on first discussing and then documenting the mission, vision and the core values of the company.
Now, he said, many hotels lock meeting rooms, use plainclothes security and use security cameras and automatic room deadbolts.
Other functions demonstrated by Apple included: using the Watch as a means to open a compatible hotel room lock as an alternative to a key card.
Some of the homeless people began beating up Sinnathamby, prompting him to run into his hotel and lock the door, she said.
In one talk, Cody Brocius, a security researcher, disclosed a loophole in hotel room locks made by Onity, whose locks are installed on more than four million hotel rooms globally.
Don't check into a hotel with locks on the bathroom!
In addition to cellphones, a host of other devices these days run on ARM chips, including TVs from Sony, the Kindle from Amazon and products as varied as hotel door locks, printers, slot machines and cars.
Luxor relies on tourism, so when western governments imposed travel bans last summer, many hotels simply locked their doors: occupancy dropped to 1%.
