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Instead, criminals are often using virtual currencies like the Russian service Web Money and, until its founder was indicted last year, E-Gold.
RightNow is a Bozeman, Montana company best known for self-service web software, such as the ability to manage your own returns with a web retailer like Overstock.com.
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To cut down on those costs, the USPS created a self-service Web site and set up a phone line with voice-recognition software, either one of which lets users reset passwords on their own.
"A lack of coastal irregularities, " such as substantial barrier islands or hills, and the Gulf of Mexico's flat bottom make southern Louisiana "ideal for wave damage, " according to the National Weather Service Web site.
While these students will, no doubt, receive the email reminder they should also, in this new socially connected business, be able to view the course and their classmates on a self-service web portal that draws on the data from the HR system.
Another report last month from ReadItLater, a web service that follows web trends, found that the time spent reading on the iPad is even crossing into primetime TV hours.
Besides its main auction site, eBay also runs internet call service Skype and web payments service Paypal.
Aydin Senkut, who left with tens of millions of dollars after Google's initial public offering, has funded some 22 companies, including Mashery, a service for combining different Web software packages, and BuzzLogic, a service for spotting trends on the Web.
Given this fragmentation, it is no surprise that it is challenging to coordinate marketing, sales and customer service across Web, brick-and-mortar and call center operations.
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MOG's free service is web only.
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This disruptive approach results in a directory meta-application, which links (like a browser calling up a Web page) to every individual application, cloud service, or Web site employees need.
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Today All for Good powers serve.gov, the service-focused web site of the Corporation for the National and Community Service, a federal agency.
Web.com offers this assistance through a subscription-based service that offers Web site design, search engine optimization (SEO), lead generation and Web analytics.
Kurnit took the metaphor of pick axes and shovels to heart, and formed The Mining Company, a human-curated web service that was dramatically different than companies like Yahoo that were building huge web catalogues by hand.
As increasing numbers of consumers become used to the quality of service offered by the best web retailers and service providers, their willingness to accept slum standards in the public sector is coming under strain.
To connect an iPad to the service, an Akamai rep simply signed into the web-based interface on both the TV and the tablet (though the service is generally compatible with any web-connected device).
Will molten fire rain from the sky or will the Web service stop working?
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Sketchfab : A platform web service to publish interactive 3D content online in real-time without plugin.
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But, we've got to admit, the web service is clearly the company's red-headed step child.
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On one side are the hip, cool, billionaire web service companies like Google, eBay, Yahoo, and even Microsoft.
Mr Wladawsky-Berger's hospital would be getting the patient's info from his home clinic through such a web service.
Certainly it casts Flickr as the monomythic web service, now ready for a return to the ordinary world.
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Web service providers cannot turn a blind eye to specific infringement violations, but need not actively seek out infringers.
The provisions protect web service providers from infringement liability if they remove infringing material when requested by copyright holders.
Kmart unveiled its free Web service, BlueLight.com, only four months ago and has already signed up 1.3 million users.
Users (mostly salespeople) access the service through a web browser wherever they are.
Most importantly, there is no room for hesitation in removing infringing content when web service providers receive notice of infringement.
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