What that meant for them was everything from making sense of the early chaos online to knocking on the door of a survivor who was struck (and is coming to CSU to play football) to waiting for the names of those who did not survive on Saturday morning.
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The piece went online early last week, and many people sent it my way.
For years, software was swapped for free via Internet Relay Chat, an early form of online information exchange.
It was not the most adept early adopter of online ticketing, self-service airport kiosks or in-flight technology and entertainment.
Getting Mars back online early was a triumph for Shell--and a rare piece of good news for the world's third-largest oil and gas company.
Ms. Lu's name began circulating online early Wednesday after social-media users connected the announcements with a post from her roommate that she was missing.
Whether the same can be said of his company and some of the other early leaders in online retailing, however, is a different question altogether.
Kanter, trained in college to be a concert flutist, is pretty much of a geek with a long history on early adoption of online conversational tools.
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He put his program online early Wednesday but plans to release a speedier version in the next day or two that, he said, will do the job in less than five minutes.
The report, published next week in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Online Early Edition, studied how volunteers responded to real-life stories chosen to stimulate admiration for virtue or skill, or compassion for physical or social pain. iReport.com : Growing pains for Twitter, Facebook?
But the diminishment of the Times-Picayune is also flavored with deep irony in an this era of digital disintermediation and newspaper defeat: the New Orleans daily heroically and effectively moved to the Internet to tell the story of Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath, providing an early model for online excellence.
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Debuting in early 2012, the online channel will introduce new TV-quality content around gaming to YouTube.
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It was already a highly successful catalogue company before it went online as early as 1995.
She said the company is still in the early stages of monetizing online gaming.
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It is, of course, still early, and many online content providers are just getting started in mobile.
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These are early days for such online courses, but their ripples are already making other educators consider possible consequences.
TheLadders has been around for eight years, making it one of the early entrants to the online job search world.
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This year, Wal-Mart is getting an early start by promoting online deals under the Cyber Monday moniker beginning Saturday, Nov. 24.
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Each has sold at least once since going online in early 2004.
After countless leaks and even an early August availability from online retailers, Samsung's ready to make its S-Pen slate, the Galaxy Note 10.1, official for the U.S. market.
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The new stations, including Camden Town, Clapham Common Notting Hill Gate and Russell Square, bring the total number of WiFi enabled stations to 92 with a further 28 stations due to come online in early 20131.
The business schools of Columbia, in New York, the University of Chicago, the London School of Economics, Stanford in California and Carnegie Mellon in Pittsburgh, for example, have teamed up behind Cardean University, an early effort at an online institution for tertiary education.
Blanton said she was bracing for the worst, given the dramatic footage posted online from the early news coverage.
The collectible card game genre has been popular online since the early days of Pokemon and Magic: The Gathering.
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However, unlike those early days of television, online video is truly becoming a critical and increasingly growing communication medium for both consumers and businesses.
Financial officials in several countries say it became clear early this year that these online banks might pose a systemic threat across the region.
In France, for instance, Minitel, the telephone-based interactive system, allowed customers to bank online from the early 1980s, a decade before the first American pioneers.
Online coupons, early-bird specials, loyalty card pricing and more frequent than average marketing efforts are being implemented to remind consumers to shop, spend and return for additional purchases.
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