All of this might seem to fundamentally undermine traditional schooling, when the most worthwhile interactions appear only to happen online.
Anyone who is still wondering what all the hype is about eSports needs only to log online and watch the streams from the inaugural Red Bull Battlegrounds StarCraft II Tournament in Austin over Memorial Day weekend.
"It seems that if these regulations will only apply to online outfits it would be a burden to show that they are not discriminatory as well as a means of protecting the old ways of doing business, " Roche added.
It blends remote control and consistent access not only to various online streaming services, but also to TiVo DVRs via the GamePad, lessening the pain of having its relatively large footprint on one's coffee table along with second-screen programming for sports and other movies.
The merchants range from those who sell only online to brick-and-mortar stores starting to move online, to those who do both.
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Bechtel engineers who meet with the Southern Iraq Electricity Co. in Basra each Sunday left a meeting thinking one substation was ready to go fully online, only to return a week later to find it had been completely stripped.
For many people, long queues or long journeys means it is only practical to do this online.
Douzet explains that only buys clients access to online listings and recruiters.
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In late 2011, the Justice Department flip-flopped on one of its most important online gambling positions, claiming the Wire Act only applied to sports betting and not online poker.
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While 77 of the top 100 movies at the box office in 2012 were available on DVD at the beginning of January 2013, you could only rent up to 46 online.
Backed by billionaire Wilbur Ross, Assured Guaranty had been the only online monoline to continue to issue new policies as it had been the only one to keep its credit rating.
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That it was a subscription-based MMO in an age of free-to-play online games only made matters worse, and EA moved the game to a F2P model in 2012.
On-the-horizon technologies like "tele-immersion" promise to make someone you've only met online appear as real as the person sitting right next to you.
Now for the twist: Kutcher, a multi-million fan-generating force of the social media world, has decided to not only list the for sale property online, but open the doors to money-making masses, via e-commerce site Gilt.com.
The software improves on an earlier version that only delivered static online information to your mobile phone.
The company said that, at the time, the cheapest tariffs were only available to those signing up online.
GameStop CEO Paul Raines said his company expects a transition to online-only consoles to happen at some point.
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Borders Group, one of the two main brick-and-mortar bookstore competitors to online-only retailer Amazon , recently filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
Now analysts say consumers visit the store to look at new tablets, phones and other gadgets, only to buy them more cheaply online.
However, only about one in eight (13%) shipped products internationally from orders placed online, while 23% sold online but only to the UK market.
To date, the company has helped over 300, 000 people in their job searches and is the only job site to receive an Online Trust Award for Excellence in Consumer Trust.
More and more customers use its big box stores as showrooms to look at goods, only to then use a smartphone to find a better price online at e-retailers like eBay and Amazon.com.
That audience is attractive to e-learning companies -- from correspondence programs that have hopped online to Net-only operations peddling curricula by the month or by the course.
We have come a long way from when the Internet was first launched, to where we are now, not only in regards to how much information is available online, but how much information people willingly share online.
Just over 20% of non-users say they know enough about technology to start going online if they wanted to, and only 10% said they're interested in using the internet or e-mail in the future.
The entrepreneur Amit Gupta, who was diagnosed in 2011 with Leukemia, was able to find a donor only after waging an online campaign encouraging more South Asians in the U.S. and abroad to join donor registries.
It may not take weeks or months like a full-fledged MMO review might take, but to review Diablo III fairly you need to review its accessibility and the impact the online only nature of the game has on gameplay even down to the ability of gamers to log into their accounts.
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But I know, vaguely (online only, just to be clear) one of the authors.
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This seems largely to exempt online-only retailers such as Amazon from tax collection.
All of my databases were backed up not only by an online service but to a local external hard drive.
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