And a growing number of so-called cheater apps are looking to bring similar functions to smartphones.
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By moving computing functions to the network, OnLive is defining the next generation of cloud computing.
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The company may be using social functions to establish a legal line between full-time and contract employees.
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Executive secretaries and administrative assistants perform general office functions to keep the higher-ups of the group organized.
It needed to outsource more customer service functions to save money and figured other companies did too.
More veterinary auxiliaries to carry out administrative functions to allow fully trained vets to carry out clinical tasks.
You will be able to unshackle yourself from the business by delegating repetitive or low value functions to others.
Their game.com handheld, as the name suggests, attempted to bring Internet access and PDA functions to a gaming handheld.
The role of HR is to partner with other business functions to acquire, develop, and source human capital optimally.
The APIs can work in both directions, serving the content and triggering callback functions to report on user activity.
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Tools like Salesforce Chatter offer a great way to leapfrog from transactional functions to a more modern, strategic role.
More specifically, Washington will unveil plans to close some of these bases and shift functions to mainland Japan or elsewhere.
At the same time, the very basis for identification systems are changing from improving government functions to enabling citizen services.
Medsphere has added additional functions to VistA, by developing, for instance, ob-gyn and pediatric programs, as well as interface engines.
Using a finance-driven business model, BP outsourced many of its corporate functions to contractors and eliminated many of its own engineers.
Even when subjects aren't ready for their close-up, the MV900F has a range of functions to easily create professional beauty shots.
Enterprises, in fact, are expressing high levels of interest in outsourcing their CRM, HR, and email functions to SaaS providers, says Jones.
During his unsuccessful 2004 presidential campaign, candidate John Kerry denigrated Benedict Arnold companies that outsourced production and service functions to places like India.
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Otellini's people have scoffed at the super-cheap laptop as a toy, lacking too many real-world functions to actually help poor kids learn computer skills.
Chunkifying large applications is not only less wasteful, but it lets companies selectively deploy only the right functions to the right employees, says Jow.
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"CODA has released approximately 50 employees or 15% of our workforce across all functions to streamline our operations and right-size the Company, " Beanum said.
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The range of functions to which he put them is so great that any exhibition can only hope to provide a window into his aims.
The Secretary of the Treasury may redelegate any of these functions to other officers and agencies of the United States Government consistent with applicable law.
Marketing is one of the last business functions to integrate its data, processes and systems, and that has created tremendous fragmentation and complexity in proving ROI.
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For this reason we must strive for a holistic view of the relationship of these three functions to the overall control of risk to our information.
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We have automated certain positions away, walked away from contracts that were not economic at higher wage rates, and had to outsource certain functions to outsiders.
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Deciding which of these functions to use, abstract or ignore exposes you (as a developer) to all sorts of reach, performance and support complexity challenges and tradeoffs.
The firm recently launched an initiative called Project 60, a 60-day-long blitzkrieg to bring free E-mail, search, forums and other basic portal functions to its Netcenter site.
The flexible design of BMW Apps allows unprecedented integration of smartphone functions, taking the in-car integration of iPhone, entertainment and online functions to a whole new level.
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"It's difficult, as you'd imagine, if you've got one agency or one entity doing all of your back-office functions to suddenly not use that entity, " she said.
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