But for these T1-like services, businesses still pay much less than they would for an actual T1 line.
The cell phone is important because it can offer bank-like services without the need for expensive branch offices.
For condo buildings, developers say hotel-like services can help attract buyers from overseas.
Existing owners can now license their slices of the spectrum to companies that will use it to provide cellular-like services.
It also hits head-on any real or potential competitive challenges by other cloud-like services to consumers, namely from Google, Facebook and Amazon.
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It not only offered such desktop-computer-like services as e-mail, but allowed a driver to use them without looking away from the road.
Increasing earnings in innovation and other tradeable sectors raises spending in non-tradeables sectors like services, and thus increases jobs and wages there.
Startups offering discounts at restaurants are popping up every day, so a new company in this space will inevitably draw comparisons to Groupon-like services.
This will boost revenues of other divisions, like services and software.
Data warehouses and the ability to pinpoint customers are especially important for those businesses selling commodity-like services in recently deregulated markets such as airlines, telecom and financial services.
We could build Internet-like services on education, commerce, travel, shopping.
Other Web 2.0 travel companies aim to offer concierge-like services.
Use of these white spaces will allow devices to transmit and receive wireless signals for applications such as broadband access for rural communities, Wi-Fi-like services or new 'machine-to-machine' networks.
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And those changes were felt particularly in suburban communities because some of the hardest hit industries in the Great Recession were these more suburbanized types of jobs, like construction, like services, like manufacturing.
Sina shares are trading sharply lower Friday morning after the Beijing city government issued new rules requiring users of its microblogging service Weibo and other Twitter-like services to register with their real names.
In cancelling this group of social media-like services, it is clear that Google is not in tune with the market needs and does not have a product roadmap and clear vision for productivity for their business customers.
While we don't really agree with Toeman's assertion that "SlingPlayer Mobile is a complementary product" to the carriers' proprietary video offerings, he convincingly argues that Sling- and Orb-like services, combined with Windows Mobile's newfound push-email functionality, could help lure RIM-devotees away from their precious Crackberries.
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In the 6 percent inflation case, although tradable goods prices, like soybeans and corn, are projected to rise to the 4.5 percent inflation target set by the Central Bank, non-tradable prices like services will go as high as 9 percent and pull the IPCA higher as a result.
Yelp generates revenue mainly from local business advertising, display advertising and from additional services like Yelp deals, and deals with reservation services like OpenTable.
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The concept is like share economy services like Airbnb or Getaround, except users are sharing their data plans.
America's export boom is likely to be led by firms that are already global in scale and by sectors in which America has a clear competitive advantage: sophisticated, knowledge-intensive capital goods like microprocessors, and high-end services like engineering, oil-production services and even (witness KPF) architecture.
Much like other open Internet services like eBay or Craigslist, in some cases these technologies are used for purposes that they were not designed for.
Whatever investors Carl Ichan and SK Telecom, both among the bidders in the bankruptcy proceedings, may have had planned for Blockbuster, its merger with Dish will provide some notable competition to entertainment providers like Netflix and cable services like Time Warner and Comcast.
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However it becomes much more complicated when you are operating in regulated environments like financial services.
As a result, companies like financial services firms may find their applications are underperforming.
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Like many services, Evernote stores data on remote servers instead of the user's computer.
In addition, official departments like Water Services and the Post Office could be privatized too.
In particular, the hiring outlook is anticipated to remain bleak in areas like financial services, real estate and manufacturing.
Their software and hardware architecture may take advantage of patterns like redundant services, failover services, or retry attempts after failures.
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