Google first launched its Map Maker service in 2008 to allow users to help it add details to its maps of Pakistan, Vietnam and just over a dozen other countries.
This is critical analysis for any online game company, PC hardware maker, components maker, service provider, or institutional investor with an eye on China.
Google in June launched Map Maker, a service that lets people upload location data to its Web site.
They saw it as helping with solutions and he went on to reframe IBM from a heavy metal maker to a service provider.
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The same awe hit when computer maker Dell and floral service 1-800-Flowers transformed social media pages into active sales channels.
In essence, they feared suffering the same fate as record companies at Apple's hands, when the computer maker's iTunes service became the dominant player by selling songs for 99 cents.
At a time when Portugal was a great seafaring nation Columbus worked as common seaman on a merchant ship and as a chart-maker before entering the service of King John II of Portugal.
More than 1, 000 candidates streamed past the booths of 105 companies, from mobile device maker INQ to live concert service Songkick to LastFM, in total offering 500 jobs.
Nokia, the world's largest handset-maker, launched its own information service, Nokia Life Tools, in India in June.
Peugeot SA lost 2%, after Moody's Investors Service downgraded the car maker's rating.
To compound that problem the company has absorbed staggering write-offs to account for the diminished value three major acquisitions technology consulting service EDS, device maker Palm and business software maker Autonomy.
A. from National Chiao Tung University and completing two years of military service, Shih joined computer maker Acer.
Illumina of San Diego, the leading maker of DNA sequencers, runs a service business that chief executive Jay Flatley has said has been seeing mainly infants and cancer patients.
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This could make the service much cheaper for the Mac maker to produce.
So the launch on April 28th of a new online music service by Apple, a computer maker, could be a big step forward.
BlackBerry maker Research in Motion has unveiled a new music service that allows song sharing.
But if it takes off, the computer maker may be forced to respond with its own subscription service.
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He leads fellow Oracle alumni at Ingres, a database maker that aims to undercut Oracle with lower prices and better service.
General Motors, maker of the Chevy Volt, is also helping to prepare fire service and other first responders.
Last week, The Next Web reported that the company acquired the taxi-fetching app maker TXXI in an effort to roll out a TomTom cab-booking service, and today the site reports that the theory is now confirmed.
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Sadly, it's not over: BBM Canada, a Toronto-based broadcast industry group that has used the BBM moniker in one way or another for six decades, wants to reclaim its name -- used and made popular by RIM's BlackBerry Messenger service -- and has filed a lawsuit against the phone maker for trademark infringement.
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In the days before mass production, mass distribution and mass media, when customers knew the butcher, the baker, and the candlestick maker by name, they made little distinction between the seller and the product or service offered.
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Swapping data between computer and phone systems -- for mail-order, home- banking and other service providers -- is an ideal growth business for a computer and telecom equipment maker like Oki, he says.
Swapping data between computer and phone systems -- for mail order, home banking and other service providers -- is an ideal growth business for a computer and telecom equipment maker like Oki, he says.
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This is a strategy typified by Gateway's Yourware service, said Dataquest's Smulders, and it's one that every PC maker will be compelled to consider in the months ahead.
Specifically, the phone maker will begin scanning all current and future BlackBerry World apps with the Trend Micro Mobile Application Reputation Service, a cloud-based solution that'll exist alongside BlackBerry's current security measures.
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