The iPhone brings in customers, sells data contracts and has improved customer loyalty.
Baroudi said that while he is very happy with the iPad, he will embrace Android tablets when they start to arrive independent of expensive data contracts (as the Samsung Galaxy Tab is tied to Verizon today).
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Yet its low-cost strategy dovetails with the needs of many carriers that are looking to expand smartphone sales and the lucrative data-service contracts they bring to customers who aren't willing to pay for marquee devices such as Apple Inc.
For example, a telephony API gives you the power of the phone network without the need to purchase expensive hardware, a mapping API makes it possible for you to build customized, dynamic maps without signing contracts with data providers, and a payments API lets you accept payments without having to worry about complying with complex financial regulations, etc.
Some centers that had been awarded contracts to collect data have been discontinued, and follow-up has been handed over to outside contractors.
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The Corporate Library has built up a wealth of data on executive pay and contracts, and a database of the myriad ways in which directors are connected, rather than independent.
Thus several of years of data we collected include grants and contracts in the figure and therefore give a boost to certain bigger research oriented universities like Stanford and Duke University.
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Thinking it might be the (poor) quality of the data, we obtained a large sample of similar data from a different source: supplier contracts.
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GE's contracts with insurers stipulate that GE owns the data from workers' past health purchases.
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Trading set a record for any option making its debut, according to data provider Trade Alert, with nearly 365, 000 contracts changing hands.
The data reflects positioning as of April 16 for futures and options contracts traded on the Comex division of the New York Mercantile Exchange and on the Nymex.
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Net-long positioning in the CFTC data reflects the difference between the total number of bullish and bearish contracts.
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Net long or short positioning in the CFTC data reflect the difference between the total number of bullish and bearish contracts.
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The reason why smartphones are subsidized by carriers in return for long-term contracts is that smartphone users are widely recognized as heavy data users and bring a higher life-time value to carriers.
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Instead, the DOL proposal would require employers to publicly disclose sensitive personal and business information of current and prospective employees and clients, against federal agency recommendations on data privacy and potentially in violation of state privacy laws and private contracts.
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Ben Waber, chief executive of Sociometric Solutions, which he based on his doctoral research at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, says a handful of managers have wanted to see the data on an individual employee, but that his clients must sign contracts and consent forms prohibiting them from doing so.
That meant examining the bid data, simply what companies had bid for different business and how those contracts were ultimately awarded.
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And the data just released today suggests that the overall housing market is healthy: Contracts to buy existing homes rose 4, 5%, the strongest showing since April 2010.
After heavy selling all morning, trade data show the market began to be flooded with sell orders as large as 12 contracts at a time while buy orders were less than half that level.
Companies must uphold contracts, lenders must use discretion, accounting departments must report accurate financial data and corporate insiders must conduct business responsibly (heck, even legally would do) for credit markets to work like they are intended.
By eliminating time-consuming printing and faxing, shipping (with potentially lost contracts), rework from missing signatures, errors from re-keying data, and costs of distributing copies to each signer, companies and individuals who use eSignature benefit in a number of concrete, financially significant ways.
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The two-devicers argued that the connectivity for phone calls would come from a simple, bare-bones cellphone while all the fancy data management would occur on a Bluetooth-tethered, PDA-like device unbound from cellular contracts.
BP's contracts with the US military jumped 33% over a year in 2011, according to data from Bloomberg.
Managed-money funds held net-long positions, or wagers on rising prices, totaling 35, 159 contracts on the Comex as of Feb. 15, U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission data showed last week.
Virginia-based OPower has won many contracts with utilities, such as San Francisco-based Pacific Gas and Electric, to use personalized data, competition and even social media to prod consumers into cutting their electricity consumption.
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