He added that Tesco should have an advantage over its traditional rivals with its lower fixed-cost base, benefiting from its Internet base as well as its ability to set up shop at Tesco hypermarkets.
Scott says she believes the conflict arises from the "old-media" Lucas clashing with a savvy, post-Internet fan base.
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In addition to this, internet giants such as Google and Facebook have vast amount of information and influence over their internet user base to allow them to create viable recruitment portals that can pose a serious threat to LinkedIn.
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Sealand, now run by Michael Bates, is used as a base for internet servers and other business ventures.
That is a good fit for China's growing base on Internet users, many of whom still have limited disposable income.
They're also used widely in cellular base stations, Internet routers and high-performance data-networking switches.
Yet with all of that year-over-year growth, which started from a small initial base, the Internet still accounts for just 7% of overall retail sales.
Although subscription pricing and profit margins are both higher in the TV and Internet segments, the subscriber base is very low compared to the mobile market, which results in lower gross profits.
Declining handset prices and the ease-of-use and convenience of using mobile Internet are helping expand the subscriber base.
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Sharing infrastructure with the user base who want only Internet access spreads the capital cost and the economics obviously improve.
By 2009 he was selling a stand-alone system that delivered wireless Internet access complete with antennas, base stations and other gear, all running on proprietary software.
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These two things would really help in increasing the base of people using the Internet.
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But building a successful consumer Internet company requires attracting a massive user base.
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To make the product more appealing to them, O'Reilly will soon launch cheap software to connect home personal computers to the web through the Internet, thus building up the advertising base.
Even as sites like Google-owned YouTube have emerged as viable entertainment options, the move is a nod to a basic truth of leisure time: The estimated 4 billion television users worldwide is still a much bigger customer base than those using the internet.
All its computers now include a built-in antenna which, in conjunction with a networking card, can exchange data with a small base station plugged into a broadband Internet connection up to 45 metres (150 feet) away.
Simply hook up an inexpensive Wi-Fi base station to a high-speed Internet connection.
AOL's flair for understanding the needs of the mass market and the size of its subscriber base will combine with Netscape's Internet browser and electronic-commerce software.
Many of its entrepreneurs are rapidly gaining their wealth by building the manufacturing base and service industries, including those that are Internet-related.
The twittersphere still has a limited impact outside big cities: according to Mitofsky, a pollster, only 9% of Mexicans will base their vote on what they read on the internet, versus 39% who say they will be swayed by television or radio.
Google, like other internet players, has had a difficult time monetizing its mobile user base.
Until recently the majority of internet coverage had been provided from marco-cells - large electrical base stations, made up of tall lattice towers laden with transmitters and receivers.
While the Republican Party has long had direct mail backed up by a database of voter information, Rasiej points out that Obama's list, when combined with the Internet, offers Democrats an easy way to communicate efficiently with their base -- something they have not had on terms comparable with the GOP.
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First, our global brand is a tremendous base from which to build leadership as the starting point for Internet use.
Ericsson's Screen Phone, which runs the open-source Linux operating system, combines both Internet access and a speaker phone, and will communicate with a home base station using the emerging Bluetooth technology for wireless personal area networking.
Jason Philbrook, founder of Midcoast Internet Solutions, provides Internet access for roughly 3, 000 residents of midcoastal Maine from his home base in Rockland.
O3b, by contrast, intends to offer bandwidth on a wholesale basis to internet-service providers, and transmission services to telecom operators, to link remote base stations to their core networks.
However, Google has the majority market share in internet searches and its foray into the travel space might lead to its dedicated user base switching over from competing sites such as Kayak.
And competition between Google, Facebook, Yahoo, fixed and mobile operators to seize control of the data opportunities of a global and very large customer base in mobile (at least 4 times the size of the fixed line internet population) is impacting on other sectors.
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One of the things that upset the user base most was how broad the changed Terms of Service were, and so giving the Internet a clearer idea of its plans could help settle fears.
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