Any professional service that does not require physical interaction (or pay for very high touch service), and which is complex enough to benefit from more than a phone call, is a good candidate.
They're intended for network connectivity and to service as physical licence keys for software.
This is the one area where Amazon has to spend just as much on staff and overheads as its physical counterparts: customer service.
Lawson said the pre-arranged financing and a focus on customer service (Ygrene opened a physical storefront at 2600 Capitol Avenue to offer one-stop service for property owners and contractors) are intended to speed completion of energy efficiency, renewable energy, and water efficiency projects undertaken by qualifying property owners.
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Almost by definition, ERP focuses almost entirely on the manufacturing, inventory and service of the physical product.
Over the past few years, record companies have been trying to halt the march of Apple's iTunes digital music service by making physical CDs a more interesting purchase.
With the proliferation of computer-based communication, one might have thought that the amount of physical paper sent through the postal service would decline, but it seems to have increased, at least from my perspective.
Even more than makers of physical goods, Europe's service providers are hindered by all sorts of petty bureaucratic rules, often justified on dubious health, safety or consumer-protection grounds, which discourage them from entering new markets.
Like startups such as Womply, consumers do not need a physical card or app to use the service.
Hiya is designed to go beyond typical address books, however, by making physical addresses an integral part of the service.
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MasterCard says the service will also be available in physical stores.
PayPal this morning announced deals with offline payment systems operators Verifone and Equinox Payments that will make the eBay-owned service a more viable alternative for physical world payments.
Some copyright owners in Europe and the US are using IP addresses gathered by monitoring firms to apply for court orders obliging internet service providers to hand over the physical addresses associated with them.
Facebook has recently been building out its gifting service, in which users can send physical products to friends on Facebook.
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Other factors, such as having the physical and managerial arrangements to support a big transplant service, were also important in determining the number of organs available for transplant.
The model that Nick and I sketched out said that service platforms (often allied to physical product) and external ecosystems, were vastly different from enterprises that tried to collate all their resources internally.
Instead, most are gravitating to self-service, whether on the Internet or at physical locations such as airport kiosks and ATM machines.
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These men are also struggling with mental and physical illnesses, addictions and other issues related to combat, service and life.
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The service includes features for doctors to record and review physical exams, medical history, visual images such as X-rays, and the like.
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The race for marketshare is on, as mobile phones bring banking to places that never had a physical infrastructure for it just as they did earlier for phone service itself.
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The amendment would give mental illness equal status with physical illness in the government's promotion of a comprehensive health service.
However, despite numerous potential uses, there seems to be no killer service or incentive to excite consumers to throw away their physical wallet.
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"As one of the world's largest retailers of physical video discs and digital copyrighted content, our new NOOK Video service will give our customers another way to be entertained with a vast and growing digital video collection, as part of our expansive NOOK Store, " said William J.
She told ABC she's doing physical therapy, yoga, and speech therapy, and working with a service dog.
Baljit Ubhey, of the Crown Prosecution Service, said there was evidence that Collins subjected Larke to "physical, psychological and verbal abuse".
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In a matter of moments total strangers connect with each other, people around the world reach out with physical or financial support, and red tape falls by the wayside in the service of getting things done creatively and quickly.
Mr. Trusov says companies "would need to make sure the customer service level is much higher" than that on a website or in a physical store.
"The use of geology and physical evidence really began with Sherlock Holmes, " geoforensic expert Dr Ray Murray told BBC World Service's Discovery programme.
It features a simple interface and the physical key requirement provides an additional layer of security that avoids using a vendor's redirection service such as those offered by Cloud Engines for PogoPlug or Axentra for Netgear's Stora.
Students with severe mental and physical disabilities often can't simply hop on a subway and can't take a car service alone.
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