When we disclosed this, we did it as a service to our nation.
The ideal is to integrate it as a service into your satnav systems and with the phone payment systems now being introduced.
And they believe that they are delivering cloud enabled IT as a service, and much greater efficiency than companies are currently getting out of their IT infrastructure.
And there's a growing number of companies that now offer to collect huge amounts of data and analyse it as a service, with the promise of helping businesses find nuggets of information that give them a competitive advantage in their markets.
Those same small businesses also need software to keep track of sales leads, which they increasingly choose to buy from firms such as Salesforce.com that deliver it as a service through the web browser, just as Google delivers search results.
The gesture has been taught through a much-seen video -- 13.8 million visitors have viewed it on Truitt's Web site, another 2.3 million have seen it on YouTube, and millions more have seen it as a public service announcement, he said.
For instance, if the underwriting department of an insurance company is delivered internally as a web service, it could easily be outsourced or, more likely, offered as a service to others.
It could be left to dwindle as a minimum service for people with no alternative, or it could be managed energetically as a rival to the banks.
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It started as a small local phone service, but he has since expanded it to include a 25, 000-kilometer fiber backbone, a fat slice of nationwide cellular radio spectrum and an Internet access provider.
It is designed as a service for people who want to alert their friends who might be in the neighborhood.
So it could be developed along Welsh lines, said Mr Jones, so it could respond as a service to the needs of the people of Wales.
It was conceived in 1995 as a proprietary service as AOL had been, then reinvented as a straight Internet access provider, then it ventured into content and online "channels, " even trying to produce Web sitcoms.
In an era of consumerized IT and packaged software solutions, increasingly delivered as a service from the cloud, it is tempting to think that vendors can be a good source for your IT strategy, relegating the CTO role to a sideshow.
It started as a small-scale local phone service, but he has since expanded it to include a 16, 000-mile fiber backbone, a fat slice of nationwide cellular radio spectrum and a major Internet access provider.
The reason why people pay for Spotify is because it started out as a tiered service.
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Go was considered to build character, but did not cut it as a character building social service.
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Instead it wanted to focus on improving Twitter as a free service even if it meant delaying generating revenue.
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FusionOne and VeriSign do it as a back-up service for Verizon Wireless and Cincinnati Bell , but so far their lockers are limited to storing address books.
Here being a bar, coffee shop, wherever it happens that you are (as the GPS device plus a mapping service identifies it) and others logged in can see that you are, perhaps check out your profile and decide whether being gay and here is a good enough reason to take the few steps over to introduce themselves.
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While it may command much public goodwill for the invaluable service it renders, as a business entity, MTRC has an unimpressive balance sheet.
In Mexico, the fight was not over the brand of a device though, it was over the name itself, as a service for which iFone has been using for years.
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Another is the ability to walk into a new market as USAA did when it launched a car buyer service.
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Pure cloud computing players like Salesforce.com have an advantage over SAP as it can benefit from the expected growth of software as a service (SaaS) market.
Neither can it sell as full a video-on-demand service, because it beams the same television signal across whole regions.
Google would not be interested in it as it already owns a blogging service and Twitter already acquired Posterous.
Ten years ago it started out as a drop box service - where delivery companies could leave customers' products that had been ordered from online retailers.
"It is presenting itself as a nationwide service now when in fact only the Children's Air Ambulance part of that organisation actually has a nationwide role, " he said.
While the overall 3G subsidy expense grew by almost 13% due to the sheer volume of handset sales, it decreased as a percentage of 3G service revenues from about 15.6% in Q1 2012 to 11.6% last quarter.
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He also wrote verse for every great occasion, some of it pretty awful, such as a poem addressed to the Mail Service of the Orient after it had brought him news of Gebrayel's death in a car accident in 1918.
We need to think about it, she says, as a personal service to mobile users.
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