The wake up calls have rung.

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From colored lighting and ambient music to digital art (on your TV), temperature, window blinds and specially designed mood-enhanced wake-up calls (like "wake me gently" or "wake me wildly"), you can direct the room's whole look and feel, all without having to get out of bed.

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Meanwhile, our room-service dinner, turndown service and morning wake-up calls all came without a hitch.

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One of his students created a business sending other kids automated wake-up calls.

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The Madoff Ponzi scheme and the greatest Depression since the 1930s were even harsher wake-up calls.

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Artists are free to transcend those boundaries, at some levels, like migrating birds, and provide magnificent and daring wake-up calls to humanity in every country.

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These increasingly frequent exercises are like faint wake-up calls pushing through the fog of sleep for a large population that registers for desktop and mobile apps.

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In the wake of Sunday's waves, there have been calls to set up a system that would monitor the Indian Ocean for undersea quakes and alert the countries around its rim.

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Its software also enables unified communications, so an executive might wake up in Beijing or Oslo, pull out a smartphone and make and receive calls just as if he or she were in New York.

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Ms. RICHMOND: Like, I will wake up in the middle of the night, and it's like I'm hearing the phone calls over and over again of these people that we talked to and couldn't get to.

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