The more callers who surf the Internet before phoning, the fewer live agents needed to answer calls.
Evenings without homework duties provide the opportunity to catch up on work, read a book or browse the Internet before bed.
More than a third of respondents had never used the internet before.
"I had done a lot of research about the treatment and the hospital on the internet before I agreed to the operation, " he said.
In the race to exploit the Internet before it ravages his media empire, Murdoch and his lieutenant, Chief Operating Officer Peter Chernin, have moved faster than their competitors--which also makes it easy to stumble.
And it is an elegy for a time before the internet, before everyone instantly knew everything about everyone, when the world was still full of mystery and surprise.
Images of clothes are all over the Internet months before the actual pieces can be bought in stores.
One Los Angeles-based company has quietly seen steady and astronomical success in this sector, as they attempted web-only approaches to the Internet long before the notion became popular.
It was Ed Krol's Whole Internet User's Guide and Catalog which O'Reilly published in 1992 just before Internet fever reached mass hysteria levels.
I. (Before Internet), Rock told a reporter that the great period of growth was over.
At year's end, we're connected to each other and to the Internet like never before.
"He envisioned the prevalence of the Internet many years before it became a crucial part of our lives, " she says.
But he claims to have found documents that prove certain technologies enabling VoIP s interface between traditional phones and the Internet existed months before Verizon s patent filing in 1996.
Seeing as how the clip has hit the internet mere days before the premiere, we doubt it will have a negative effect on box office sales come Friday -- unless, of course, those first 36 minutes are irrevocably horrible.
Nearly a decade before internet-sensation Groupon gave consumers everywhere an opportunity to leverage the power of group purchasing, a small outfit in Texas provided a massively-scaled up version of this power to many of the largest electric utilities in North America.
There was no shortage of warning before the internet and electronic devices came for books, having already done a number on the music and film industries before it.
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Dead Addict, a lanky 34-year-old dressed in all black and a bowler hat, points out that he began using the Internet in the early '90s, even before the advent of Internet service providers.
The Imp uses WiFi and a cloud service to make it easier than ever before for vendors to internet-enable their products, bringing the power of the internet to places and devices it could never reach before.
Long before the internet reached the heartland, there was the DTN terminal, a modern-day Farmer's Almanac.
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Not long before the Internet search giant's 2004 IPO the technorati likewise pooh-poohed Google's potential.
In the following 48 hours I have reacquainted myself with life before the Internet.
Before the Internet, securities analysis and industrial research at current detailed levels would have been unthinkable.
Instead, working life will start to resemble its old self before the internet was invented.
Before the internet, it is hard to imagine the debate that raged around the hapless Ms Zhang.
Since the contract was written before the Internet, it is silent on the question of Internet rights.
And those artists who never stood a chance before the internet will be in for an even greater challenge.
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So what did people do before the Internet when they spilled wine on the carpet or needed to replace a window?
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Woodstock happened in August 1969, long before the Internet and mobile phones made it possible to instantly communicate with anyone, anywhere.
About 20, 000 records on current and past employees were made accessible via the Internet for nine weeks before the problem was identified.
There were "local area networks" and "online services" available before the Internet, but none that made individuals free to network on their own.
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