Hong Kong Telecom plans to bring the world's first commercial video-on-demand service to the territory this year, the first step toward full-scale interactive television.
The Spanish parliament rejected, by one vote, a bill that would have made available abortion on demand during the first 12 weeks of pregnancy.
Expect the mod cons -- fully flat seats in biz and first, video on demand, power plugs and iDevice ports and new features such as sound-insulating curtains and cool automatic window shades in first class.
The first is that expectations for on-demand products and services in the consumer world are spilling over into other sectors, including government.
In fact, we're surprised to hear nobody has done this yet, but Toyota is claiming its new Map on Demand service is a world first, and who are we to argue?
This represents the first time that a cable operator will make its entire video on demand (VOD) library available via a retail DVR and TiVo Premiere will become the first retail product to fully integrate a cable VOD service, along with linear television and broadband content accessible through TiVo's user interface and intuitive search capabilities.
Within the world of consumer electronics, a smart marketing campaign can be relied upon to generate advance sales on the first batch of retail unit sales without relying on reviews or user feedback to drive demand.
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The prices of metals like copper, gold and silver have rebounded this week after slumping for the first three months of the year on waning demand.
The VIZIO Co-Star is the first stream player to offer video games on demand.
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This gives the other video-on-demand companies the chance of grabbing some first-mover advantage.
On the economic front, U.S. factory orders rose for the first time in three months in November on stronger demand for aircraft and other goods.
Indeed, the pace of data bandwidth expansion at altitude has been significantly motivated not by governments, but by demand for connectivity from passengers, first on business jets and now on airlines where in-flight wi-fi is increasingly considered standard.
Whether that reduction continues depends first on oil prices and second on the pattern of global demand.
' new release and catalog films this summer through the first national Pay-Per-View and Video On Demand platform in China.
Less to its credit, this is not the first time SAP has taken a stab at the on demand market, previous efforts that sank into ignominy.
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The HTC EVO 3D will be the first 3D handset pre-loaded with the Blockbuster On Demand mobile application that has access to one of the largest catalogs of movies, including 3D titles.
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That said, follow-on demand remained solid despite the concentration of supply in the first half of the month.
The report said this demand was up year-on-year over the first three quarters, with the second quarter even hitting an all-time high.
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Traditionally, that has meant a movie hits theaters first, followed several months later by DVDs, video-on-demand, subscription-cable channels, and so on.
Pioneer's two new in-dash navigation models are the first to conveniently connect drivers to the world around them with on-demand, interactive, personalized radio.
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This is the first time SAS has supported a massive online course using SAS On Demand, its free offering, said Jerry Oglesby, senior director for global academic and certification programs at the company.
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First, the platforms and pipes needed to deliver high quality, on-demand content took a long time to develop.
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Mr Gray issued the demand when he clashed with Mr Salmond at first ministers questions on 20 January 2010.
Joint managing director Ian Thurgood said last year the business put on triple shifts for the first time, operating around the clock, to meet demand.
Handsets such as the Galaxy Mini 2 are needed to meet the growing demand for more affordable devices for customers on the lookout for their first smartphone.
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And she said there was no such thing as "abortion on demand" in Britain, as all women seeking abortion had to first go through their options with two medical practitioners.
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Alcoa kicked off the first quarter earnings season delivering a bottom-line beat on the back of solid demand from the aerospace and auto markets.
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New Regional Partners: Now, for the first time Xbox LIVE members in the UK and Ireland can watch live or on-demand TV with BSkyB on Xbox.
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For many people, Netflix was the first glimpse of a kind of content holy grail: limitless choice, all on demand, and available on any Internet-connected device.
Aluminum-maker Alcoa, the first of the 30 Dow Jones industrial average components to report first-quarter earnings, recorded sharply higher profits from a year ago on growing global demand for its products in material in commercial construction and aerospace.
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