Seattle's Washington Mutual provides a play area for customers' kids at some branches.
Seattle's Washington Mutual (nyse: WM - news - people ) provides a play area for customers' kids at some branches.
The way people are hired, trained, motivated, and taught to communicate with customers all play a role.
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The venture's aim is to allow the cable companies to offer their customers a "quadruple play" of television, telephones, Internet access and wireless phones.
Earlier this year it launched a network adapter for its PlayStation 2 gaming system that lets customers play against each other over the Internet using either a dial-up modem or a broadband connection.
Through online customer communities and other social apps, these organisations are inviting their customers to play an entirely new role in the company - a role those customers are often eager to fulfil: they readily help each other with common problems, provide tips for better product use and trumpet their enthusiasm for the brands they love.
He noted that many game files are several times larger than a typical high-definition movie, requiring customers to wait a long time before they can play a new game.
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For example, a Bravia flatscreen television might play a movie from one of the company's studios as customers walk by.
Orange offers a "triple play" package to its customers which bundles mobile phone, landline and broadband services as an all-in-one deal.
Pick n Pay also has a thriving ticket resale service, a travel comparison site and lets customers play the lottery online.
Cloud Player is a service that enables customers to securely store their personal music in the cloud and play it on a wide range of devices.
About two-thirds of FiOS consumer customers have purchased a "triple play" of phone, Internet and video services.
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A. In order to attract customers to play our games, we have made them free to play.
This is not longer about a cost play, it is how to help customers grow their business.
Approximately 70 percent of FiOS consumer customers have purchased a "triple play" of phone, Internet and TV services.
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And both firms get to make a case to customers that their wares will play well with others, said Michael Cherry, lead analyst, Windows and mobile, at Directions on Microsoft.
Rutten figures only about half his customers actually play the piano on a regular basis -- though they may not always admit it to themselves.
Customers in different regions will even play a role in determining which flavors their local branches carry.
Prominently placed at the front of the store was a display table with several tablets models for customers to play with.
If Google made a serious play for the wireless spectrum, the search company could sell ads to subsidize a service that Apple's customers could connect to.
Compaq also announced its new Triple Play broadband Internet access program, which offers customers a choice of three high-speed Net access options: cable modem, DSL, and satellite.
But the two devices are also different in that Sony plans to offer a way for its advanced data centers to stream game images and button presses over the Internet to its PlayStation, allowing customers to play potentially any game instantly with a Web connection.
The mobile service vendors also benefit from a subset of games that allow customers to use their connection to play online, since these services gobble up cellular plan minutes.
Our integration with Kinect for Xbox 360 lets customers play and search for videos with the wave of a hand or the sound of their voice, and our Whispersync technology allows customers to seamlessly switch between watching on their Kindle Fire and their Xbox 360 console, without losing their place.
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The Galaxy Note 10.1 boasts a brilliant touchscreen display, allowing customers to watch movies, view pictures and play games that come to life in high-definition (1280x800).
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Bundling can play a part in price discrimination, as different bundles of goods and prices may appeal to different customers.
Amazon Cloud Player on Roku provides customers with the ability to play their music from the cloud directly on their TV or through a stereo system connected to their TV.
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He cited three reasons for what will be a nearly year-long effort to convert 25 million lines of code to play on the new Mac OS. His customers demanded it, he wants Apple users as his customers and he likes OS X.
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