But they also have exclusive in-house amenities, such as a private lobby desk and concierge staff, with escorted in-room iPad registration, one of the best upgrades you can get in a city where main lobby registration, even at top hotels, often resembles the economy class check-in line at JFK. The 24-hour room service features the first-ever in-room dining menu designed by the man himself, culinary legend Nobu Matsuhisa.
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Such investment, in a region that has seen few mergers or acquisitions, may speed up the third effect of Asia's turmoil: the rapid rise of mobile telephones, where there is now more competition than in the fixed-line service.
The grand-daddy of Internet services is Minitel, the ubiquitous on-line data service created by France Telecom (an arm of the government) in 1978-82.
Over 110, 000 registered to use the on line filing service- barely on in four of them actually did so.
TaskRabbit nabbed the first-in-line spot to try to promote its online service that allows people to pay someone else to do a menial task for them.
Others complained to BBC News Online that they spent more than half an hour in a queue for the technical help line of the Genie Wap service - a premium rate call costing 50p a minute when accessed on a normal telephone landline.
In assessing the value of a senior health-service manager or council chief, for example, the line between core competence and bonus-worthy brilliance might be hard to define.
Fundraiser Peter Whalley said the centre would give those injured in the line of duty the confidence and self-esteem to get back into civilian life or restart their service career.
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South Central Ambulance Service NHS Trust said messages were being sent to all front-line vehicles in the area alerting them to the closure and advising them to follow diversions.
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With top worldwide market share in PCs and tight relationships with on-line service providers like AOL, Compaq can claim to control most of the pieces of the Internet pipeline.
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