New ways of dealing with micro-payments are emerging, such as by deduction from a prepaid account with a computer company, Internet-service provider or mobile-phone company.
Start-up Qwiki is launching an iPad version of its computer-generated, multimedia content service.
Cheaper communications and advances in computer technology are allowing service-sector companies to move more and more sophisticated activities to cheaper overseas locations.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) rents computer infrastructure on a self-service basis.
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.
Anderson said the U.S. may end up with a new type of weaponry for launching massive distributed denial-of-service attacks and computer viruses.
Industry pundits used to seeing web pages displayed on crisp, high-resolution computer monitors slammed the service for fuzzy graphics and nearly unreadable text.
But where did this all start and how did these two build such a great business for themselves in only 7 short years since that miracle match-up on a computer dating service?
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.
The same awe hit when computer maker Dell and floral service 1-800-Flowers transformed social media pages into active sales channels.
The two finalists are Internet service provider EarthLink and computer company Hewlett-Packard.
That means they could be used to launch a distributed denial-of-service attack on a victim's computer.
It sells with two-year guarantees, and offers much the biggest regional network of any Russian computer firm: 250 dealers across the country, full-service centres in 60 cities.
The audit was called for after it emerged some computer records on callouts by the out-of-hours doctors service were falsified to make the service appear faster.
For example, the National Air Traffic Service, which has presided over one of the worst computer-procurement failures at its much-delayed Swanwick control centre, is outside parliamentary audit.
The courts have yet to decide who is liable if a computer system with lax security is used to launch a denial-of-service attack, but a number of lawsuits are pending.
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The virtual model changes the cost structure: no need for office space, tax professionals can be anywhere ( India?), and probably customers can be led to a greater degree of self-service, since the process is already occurring on their computer.
The serious delay in re-starting the computer would prompt a major investigation within the National Air Traffic Service.
And video-on-demand will become a genuine service, sending to your television or computer the film you want to see the instant you make the request.
Speaking to reporters at the task force ribbon-cutting ceremony, Mike Dorsey, a special agent with the Naval Criminal Investigative Service who is working directly with the JTF-CND to investigate computer crimes against DOD networks, said unauthorized attempts to access DOD systems are on the rise but that DOD does not have the resources to respond to every incident.
Later this year it will add computer-packaged stock portfolios (of the sort pioneered by FolioFN) and then electronic advice service, with combined debit and credit cards to follow.
With the proliferation of computer-based communication, one might have thought that the amount of physical paper sent through the postal service would decline, but it seems to have increased, at least from my perspective.
According to a 2010 survey by Parks Associates, more than 50 percent of Americans with Internet service look to their broadband provider as their first or second choice in solving their home computer-related technical issues.
Citigroup has begun notifying some 3.9 million U.S. customers that computer tapes containing information about their accounts have been lost by United Parcel Service (nyse: UPS - news - people ) while in transit to a credit bureau.
SkyDrive is an Internet-based storage service, but it can also automatically save copies of all your files on every computer you use.
The service includes a smart application that operates in the background of your computer managing the upload and day-to-day syncing of your music library.
ENGADGET: mSpot stores your music* in the cloud, makes it available anywhere**
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