"When you are the first one to get hold of a new gadget, it's important that people around you already know a little bit about the product and can recognize it, " said Toshiyuki Ueno, an engineer and technology consultant, who got an iPad last month in the U.S. and has a reservation to buy a 3G version in Japan.
The reservation currently has about 14, 000 residents on both the U.S. and Canadian sides.
Joe Biden, has gone off the reservation as well, most recently by telling donors at a fundraiser that America's enemies will try to "test" Obama.
Ever since this magazine was founded 85 years ago by a Scottish immigrant, it has stood, without reservation, for the notion that national borders should be wide open to the flow of goods, capital and ideas.
Although archaeoseismology (the study of ancient earthquakes through indicators left in the archaeological record) has a lineage that extends back to the pioneering excavations of Schliemann at Troy, Evans at Knossos and Schaeffer at Ugarit in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, it is essentially a young and burgeoning discipline that has met with much reservation from some earthquake scientists.
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"Let's say some executive has his assistant make a reservation at Park Avenue Winter, " the manager said.
As the biggest player in the online restaurant reservation industry in North America, OpenTable has a significant competitive advantage with more than 13, 000 of the estimated 30, 000 reservation-taking full-service restaurants in North America as its customers.
PricewaterhouseCoopers has long had a desk-reservation policy, allowing employees who visit other offices to use vacant cubicles and desks.
San Manuel Fire at the direction of the Tribe has routinely answered calls beyond the reservation during times of community and nationwide emergency.
The Wyoming Department of Revenue, along with other states and many cities, has taken on the on-line reservation companies over how those taxes are computed.
In other news, an anonymous Apple Store employee has done some homework and tallied up average reservation numbers at other US stores -- he estimates about 800 people on average are on the reservation list per Apple Store (ranging from a couple hundred to well over a thousand), which amounts to about 200, 000 reservations as of now, a number he believes could double before launch.
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For example, Mixpanel customer Airbnb has users who stop during their booking of a reservation.
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Vlassopulos: La Quinta has an app that allows you to make a reservation with just your phone number (without filling out a bunch of information).
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As frequent fliers know all too well, the salvation for most airlines has been to stick passengers with fees, and lots of them: reservation changes, bags, food, movies, headsets, you name it.
One biotech firms has created a range of these apps, for everything from sophisticated project management to remote reservation of a conference room.
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