And, it is almost needless to say, they will want everybody that does business with them to do it the e-way too.
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.
Now these personal payments are being offered by e-currency exchanges as a way to provide easy worldwide access to e-currency account balances most notably by AurumXchange.
If you know you are going to need to check an e-mail on the way home from the office, find a parking lot half way to your destination, answer the e-mail, and then get back on the road.
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For book publishing companies, e-readers present another way to sell their products and a way to get things to print faster, as an e-book can be distributed faster than a paper copy.
In my opinion, smartphones are driving retailers to create omni-channel experiences in a way that e-commerce alone could not.
They're ignoring the fact that decisions are being made that will affect the way e-commerce will be done.
But the engine powers a generator that creates electricity that turns the wheels, so it's an e-car in its way.
"Ffos Las is only signposted when you're nearby and there were no signs saying: 'Kidwell-e Festival this way', " she said.
With real-time data by the Web and e-commerce on the way, he can offer, he says, many more ways for companies to get smarter.
Eventually, e-books point the way towards a cleavage of content from platform, threatening publishing with the wholesale change that has hit the music industry.
One thing all of these readers have in common: E Ink displays -- way better for reading out in the summertime sun than their LCD counterparts.
Apart from fending off interlopers from the Internet, Japanese publishers see e-books as a way of slashing the costs of production and distribution, which currently account for more than 75% of the total.
E-mail changed the way we communicate.
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For Coates, the hope now is that the sales data from these arrangements will in time be enough to convince the big publishers that lending e-books is a way to grow and that they should work with libraries and not cut them off.
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We have also developed COSAC-AWB (Air Way Bill) and COSAC-Customs, to facilitate the industry adoption of digital air way bills and eventually e-freight.
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But, e-commerce businesses have no way to identify what products are popular off of their domain.
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He gives the example of e-mail: in a way, it is much the same as regular mail but faster.
The executives had brought with them the prototype for a new device, a two-way pager that could send and receive e-mail wirelessly.
When enough computers are equipped to do business this way, e-speak becomes a dynamic web of interactions: In the trip to Paris a travel agency might be at the center of the transaction.
Back in 2008, Deane created her first e-commerce site the same way entrepreneurs around the world do every day: She used a free online template and linked her site immediately to PayPal for online payments.
Today's consumers use the Internet in their own particular way for e-mail, web-surfing and so on, but, the bulls argue, tomorrow's will think of it more as a form of interactive television, with many people watching the same material.
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From the 1980s, when computer-based education started to be delivered through CD-ROMs, e-learning has boomed, paving the way for several private players and government agencies which create and deliver e-learning systems today.
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Or perhaps they want to retain the right of plausible I-never-got-it deniability as a way of not responding to an e-mail message.
Just as important as the 200 lines of code that made up the e-mail software was Mr Tomlinson's elegant way of organising the addresses of people and the computers that held their e-mail account.
E-READERS HAVE come a long way since the first Kindle hit the market six years ago.
Word of his death first reached this newspaper by way of an e-mail from Armenia.
E-mail has become a false way of addressing conflict, and the costs in terms of time and trust are dramatic.
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Oyster wants to be the Spotify for e-books, offering a new way for readers to buy books (and for publishers to sell and market them).
But almost all of the experience gained from constructing and operating the VLT for more than a decade has found its way into the E-ELT, says E-ELT project scientist Spyromilio.
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