The "let" was also quickly introduced, giving the player a second chance when his delivery hits the net cord and falls into the correct service box.
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In putting together the list, our nominating process, so to speak, was to look at all films released in calendar year 2008 culled from box-office reporting service Box Office Mojo.
That was followed by his showing me the enormous Motorola service box that was to be installed in my apartment to handle the service (3x the size of what was in my previous apartment for the exact same service ) and his suggestion that it go on the living room wall!
The second-best alternative is to use a commercial hosting service like Box.net or Dropbox.
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Five million people already use a startup service called Box.net.
J's showing off the new dashboard system, and talking up Xbox Live Silver, their free level of out-of-box service.
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Ten years ago it started out as a drop box service - where delivery companies could leave customers' products that had been ordered from online retailers.
This is a longer way of saying I think it would be hard to put just anybody in a box, for two years of service, in one neat box so quickly.
In the late 1960s Chuck Dolan started a hotel-room video service that became Home Box Office.
Or, more likely, it will eat the cost in the noble service of entertainment and box office receipts.
Shearer says she was overcharged for the Matrix box and service.
Love With Food is a subscription service that sends you a box of unique new food products every month.
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The US Postal Service has added a PO Box for those who wish to send letters of condolence to the residents of Newtown.
Dragon TV is Nuance's unique voice and natural language understanding platform designed specifically for smart TV, device and set-top box OEMs and service operators.
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Sky's On Demand service also includes access to box sets such as Mad Men, An Idiot Abroad and Mad Dogs available at no extra charge to Sky customers.
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Birchbox, for the uninitiated, is the NYC-based business of Beauchamp and fellow Harvard alum Haley Barna, is a subscription-based service that delivers a monthly box of beauty samples to your door.
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The story provides some other specs on the new console: Edge reports that there will be new version of the Xbox Live online service, and that the box will ship with an updated version of the Kinect gesture control device.
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Box already has a service that enables companies to manage and store information in the cloud.
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Apparently, the promised etch-a-sketch has finally arrived, been taken out of its box and placed into service.
Just about anyone who buys the box can get the service for free.
In the past it has dismissed claims that it is working on a console-like device that would put its Steam online gaming service into a stand-alone box.
Vudu general manager Edward Lichty joined the company from TiVo just before the box launched and helped shift the strategy, abandoning the box and getting the service embedded into Internet-connected TVs and DVD players.
TiVo ( TIVO - news - people ) just before the box launched and helped shift the strategy, abandoning the box and getting the service embedded into Internet-connected TVs and DVD players.
They adapted Wingfield's original version to play on a rectangular court and over the next few years made further changes to lower the net, reducing the size of the box into which the service could be hit and allowing overarm serving.
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He also predicted Apple will add movie rentals to its iTunes service and update its Apple TV set top box offering.
We tick the box unthinkingly because we want the service or product.
Norvergence promised customers its Matrix box would deliver unlimited broadband and cell phone service with no per-minute charges.
We have launched our set-top box business as TalkTalk has introduced its TV service, and our Ascend Y 201 and G 330 smartphones debut with its new TalkTalk Mobile proposition.
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While this may be a logical extension for the big box stores who want to improve their customer service, it presents a potentially dangerous environment to small business service providers who do not traditionally compete with them.
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