Like the rest of the mobile phone industry, Deutsche Telekom has been hit hard by the growing popularity of internet telephony, as peddled by eBay's (nasdaq: EBAY - news - people ) Skype, which has seen customers moving away from conventional technology.
As VMware executives describe it, virtualization customers are moving through three stages of virtualization.
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The only thing new today was how quickly customers are moving away from the bygone Nokia.
International Data Corp. analyst Al Gillen says NetWare 5.1 might be just the thing to keep NetWare customers from moving to NT or Linux.
They spent good money engineering "features" into these devices that kept their customers from freely moving their music back and forth between their devices.
In fact, we want to provide services to customers that are moving a portion of their infrastructure to the cloud and provide them with an integrated view, whether from the cloud or from their data center.
Some customers will want a private cloud implementation to maintain greater control of the end to end experience, other customers are already moving data and applications to the Windows Azure cloud to take advantage of the reduced management and hardware costs the public cloud offers.
Esplex, which supplies new and used computer parts to customers worldwide, is moving its spare parts operation from Plymouth to Poland.
Mobile internet usage in Africa is increasing rapidly as Orange continues to deploy 3G networks and make more low-cost smartphones available, customers have been steadily moving from basic feature phones towards more low-cost Android smartphones.
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Some of their potential customers are going to be moving to the tablet.
We are now moving our first customers from evaluation into full production installations.
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When customers strap themselves into a moving seat and slip on 3D glasses, they perceive themselves sitting on a tatami mattress in a bedroom.
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Banks also stand to lose much of the money they currently make from moving money around for customers.
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Now common sense suggests those customers will be less uneasy about moving if the new owner is an organisation of which they've heard and which has been around for many decades, rather than a brand new outfit that's been around for a few months and currently has no presence in banking.
But at the end of the day, you know your business is moving forward when you have customers.
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Traders have said they fear moving the markets could lose them customers.
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Regulars duke it out for the top spot, moving up the menu chart if other customers order their personalized burger, earning credits for future meals as they go.
They are moving quickly to speak with their target customers across the Pandora platform, with the majority of the top 50 digital advertisers in the U.S. already having bought multiplatform advertising on Pandora.
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Put another way, most companies have recognized that moving decision-making further away from customers has a negative impact on growth, but many companies have failed to take a similar approach to managing their own talent.
By moving routine interactions to the Web and enabling customers to do some things for themselves, we've freed up our salespeople to do more meaningful things with customers.
Cypriot leaders are struggling to agree how to raise the money but the BBC's economics correspondent Andrew Walker in Brussels says they appear to be moving towards some sort of contribution from banks' customers.
As customers, they may end up boycotting the products of the corporations moving from one location to another, just to cut costs and raise profits.
"Moving forward, we will continue to give to give customers choice among a robust selection of car rental options -- including Hertz, Avis, Budget, Dollar, Thrifty, Advantage and other leading suppliers -- that will fully meet travelers' needs, " the company said in a statement.
But if the goal of a billion customers is anything more than windy rhetoric, it will need to start moving more boldly.
Apotheker, moreover, has to keep all his executives moving together, even as he inspires the troops and wins over customers.
By rethinking its playscript, the company was able to monetize its technical advantage, create new links to customers and find a profitable, future-proof niche in a fast-moving, unforgiving environment.
Motivated employees are a great way of delivering what the customer wants, be that service, fast moving consumer goods, innovation, or anything else, and happy customers make employees feel rewarded.
After scoring miserably on the LSAT exam twice and deciding to forgo law school, she spent a nightmarish three months on a moving walkway at Disney World, wearing Mickey Mouse ears and guiding customers onto an Epcot Center ride.
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Do you really need to be producing printed collateral for every product when your company is moving to more of a cross-product solutions focus, and customers are increasingly using digital media or are too busy to look at it anyway?
"If you have an established business, are happy with your name and your customers and prospective customers know where to find you, then I would not see a business case for moving, " she said.
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