For me writing an e-mail often takes quite a bit longer than a phone call because I must craft it much more carefully, people often read and reread e-mails multiple times.
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Amazon also reports that e-books now outsell hardcover books by 80%, and that it sold three times as many e-books in the last quarter as it sold in the same quarter last year.
We envision a future where spindly robotic legs shudder under the weight of our grossly obese frames -- but maybe we've seen Wall-E too many times.
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"Some people have actually been fired by e-mail, " says Charles Bermant, e-mail advice columnist for the Seattle Times.
Apparently, you'll be much more productive if you check your e-mail only a few times a day, rather than incessantly, as I do.
Surgeries in the programme share information on how to improve services, including reducing waiting times by using e-mails and telephone calls to handle patient demand.
Dozens of stories have floated around the Web about the times when an e-mail to Jobs yielded a phone call from an executive support team and an outcome that far exceeded reasonable expectations.
The purchase price--13% of E-Trade's total equity at the time--was 174 times Telebanc's earnings for the year.
And just as countries will move into e-business hyper-growth at different times, so too will whole industries.
Before you read the next sentence, ask yourself this question: How many times have I checked my e-mail today?
It added that sales of e-books so far this year were three times the number sold in the same period of 2010.
HarperCollins sells e-books to libraries at prices comparable to those it charges consumers, but each e-book can only be lent out 26 times until the library has to buy another copy.
Under the terms of the one-year project, the libraries will pay retail-level prices once a year to keep any given e-book available, no matter how many times it's virtually borrowed by residents in the boroughs.
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Google hopes that this openness will encourage the wide adoption of the Wave protocols, while also ensuring that the Wave platform does not become fossilised and unable to move with the times, as happened to e-mail.
And it's not difficult to imagine the business-to-business uses of e-scheduling, like letting distributors arrange for manufacturers' deliveries at convenient times or allowing customers to book product-training classes online, or even enabling an administrative assistant to make plans for a temp to cover his weeklong vacation.
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The video had been viewed 1.5m times and prompted 200, 000 e-mails of protest.
In the approximately five years that my company has been using Constant Contact the popular e-mail marketing service has shut me down three times.
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Ultimately, shifting between your e-mail and your work projects only a few times a day, instead of dozens, makes you more efficient and focused and minimizes brain strain.
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Besides writing the weekday advertising report as well as other news articles and features, he also writes a weekly e-mail newsletter In Advertising for the New York Times on the Web.
Friday was the biggest sales day ever for the line of Kindle e-readers and tablets, with customers buying four times as many of the devices as they did last year, Amazon said.
To sell subscriptions that bundle the Times in print, online and on mobile devices, the Times has had to develop an e-commerce platform that patches together various old and new databases and programs.
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My offer is very simple, which I will restate: I ask you to repeat the March 29, 2011 demonstration purported to show that your E-CAT unit had an output power of many times the input power through LENR (low energy nuclear reactions).
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Geoff Day, head of communications for Mercedes-Benz USA, says the SLS AMG E-Cell uses lithium-battery technology currently unequaled in any other automaker, especially in terms of charging times and resiliance.
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Segal advises staying in close touch with stateside colleagues, via e-mail and phone, and treating home visits as times to connect.
Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International, the world's busiest airport, offers "Trak-a-Line, " a service that e-mails passengers when there is a change in wait times for security screening.
The two-night package includes a cooking class, hiking, boating, yoga, fishing and a choice of any current New York Times bestseller (no, not an e-book).
The e-mail points out that Hoboken, NJ is five times larger than Montclair yet we have 129 employees in our police department while Hoboken has 168.
"The operating success of this year is based on sustainable and profitable subscriber growth, longer usage times and more revenues in advertising, e-commerce and services, " the company said in a statement.
One of the first calls Bob Longo, a former sales chief for the failed computer company Jobs founded called NeXT Computer, made after getting diagnosed with cancer was to Jobs. (They shared the same oncologist and radiologist.) The pair kept in touch, Longo recalled to the Pittsburgh Business Times, and Longo received an exuberant e-mail from Jobs after telling him the news that Longo's surgery was successful.
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