Be it the adoption of pricing model in the utilities industry in the world of IT and publishing, the car rental model giving way to vacation rental plans or the music and e-commerce industries coming together, we all have a Chicago butcher story in our lives and many are waiting for that Henry Ford moment to happen.
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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The hub brings employees from across the company together, including e-commerce, customer care, in-flight services, IT and marketing.
Sharegrove uses Facebook Connect to knit together a cross between e-mail, group chat and Facebook wall-type postings.
Indicate in an e-mail they hope you can get together soon, but offer nothing more specific than that.
In case the Brits were still wondering if we Americans finally had our act together in regard to e-voting, this should add yet another nail in the coffin.
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Microsoft says it will use the company's software, people and intellectual property to accelerate the delivery of its unified communications vision, a vision bringing together various technologies including e-mail, instant messaging, short message service, telephony, and Web conferencing.
Perhaps its coolest new trick is the ability to share your phone's screen with the person on the other end of the call (if they're also on a BlackBerry 10 device), so you can review work documents or enjoy photos together without having to e-mail or upload the files.
All this argues for a cautious response to claims that e-communications abate conflict by bringing mutually suspicious people together.
At a December 1997 meeting, Steve asked Miles Gilburne (AOL's senior vice president, corporate development) and me to see about working together and we eventually focused on e-commerce.
It can piece together customer service records, photos, e-mails and Web pages into a coherent whole.
Another possible reason people seek to share these types of experiences is that as technology disconnects people -- with social networking sites, e-mail, text and instant message replacing face time -- those with common interests look for opportunities to be together, Yarrow said.
Putting the two together Mr Tomlinson came up with the first e-mail program.
What we do know now is that people sit with intimates in great rooms and studio apartments each with their own laptop, smartphone, tablet, e-reader, game console or whatever and call it spending time together.
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Prominent universities have therefore tended to band together for support in the early stages of exploring e-learning, and they have often launched their efforts under names other than their own, even though they have some of the strongest brands in education.
Put the two facts together, and the result is that many companies accept e-mail as an almost exclusive mode of communication between employees.
Before libraries and publishers can come together and agree how to solve the problem of library e-book lending, they probably will have to understand each other.
With Sterling and WebSphere together, IBM can offer a soup-to-nuts e-commerce platform.
Put it all together and we begin to see the story of a 2010 e-reader market that extends way beyond just e-books to include newspapers and magazines augmented with audio and full-color animations, video, and imagery.
Taken together, this explains the rapid growth of online tutoring, or e-tutoring.
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To address these concerns, they worked together to enter into contracts that eliminated price competition among bookstores selling e-books, substantially increasing prices paid by consumers.
He put together this site, complete with a spreadsheet containing the names and e-mail addresses of the chief executives at firms said to advertise with the News of the World.
An e-petition has been created calling on the government to ensure that different police constabularies work together more closely when granting firearms licences.
That looks to be on the tentative mend, as the publisher and 3M have together cut deals with the Brooklyn Public Library and New York Public Library to bring Penguin's e-book catalog back as part of a test program.
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