Customer service is without doubt a huge arrow in the marketing quiver, and a smart customer service representative is worth his or her weight in gold.
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Sprint has no way to really properly service the smart phones it is presently selling in abundance without the Clearwire network.
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Also debuting: a Pandora-like user-programmable Internet radio service called Smart DJ, which includes unlimited skips and a view of the full recommended music stream.
Despite universal lip service to smart defence, scepticism abounds.
The funding is integral to a smart grid initiative and broadband service based on an open-connectivity fiber optic backbone network.
The service includes a smart application that operates in the background of your computer managing the upload and day-to-day syncing of your music library.
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The update to Google's search application for the iPhone, which Apple will release through its App Store software distribution service for the smart phone, will allow users to ask a question and get an answer from the Mountain View, Calif.
Deezer's expansion has been faster than any other digital music service - it's now available in more than 180 countries and in every continent in the world - and these partnerships make Deezer the new dominant digital music service provider via smart TVs.
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"It's our dream to make all the world's music available instantly to everyone, everywhere, and bringing our service to Samsung Smart TVs is taking us another step closer to turning this dream into reality, " said Pascal de Mul, Global Head of Hardware partnerships, Spotify.
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Another possible draw: the introduction of a service called Sea Smart, a one-button emergency gizmo, comparable to OnStar for luxury autos, with a panic button that sends a signal via satellite every ten seconds and offers real-time tracking of the distressed vessel on a 3-D color map back at Sea Tow's headquarters.
Dates for cloud gaming service coverage for LG Smart TVs are not available at this time.
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American Express is providing its Smart Offers API to enable the service.
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Besides the Avis acquisition of Zipcar, Mercedes-owner Daimler is rapidly expanding its car2go service that rents its Smart Fortwo cars by the minute.
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To be fair, these dangers are present with every cloud based service, and a smart user will always ensure they have a way to pull their data out and move on with a readable data archive.
"By bringing the technologically advanced Verizon FiOS TV service to the LG Smart TV, we are providing the best in entertainment in extraordinary new ways, further breaking down old technology boundaries, " said Eric Bruno, vice president of consumer and mass business product management for Verizon.
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Unlicensed National Information Infrastructure (U-NII) devices today operate in 555 megahertz of spectrum in the 5 GHz band, and are used for short range, high speed wireless connections including Wi-Fi enabled local area networks and fixed outdoor broadband transceivers used by wireless Internet service providers to connect smart phones, tablets and laptops to the broadband network.
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"She was everything a foreign service officer should be: smart, capable, eager to serve, and deeply committed to our country and the difference she was making for the Afghan people, " he said.
The service will be built in to Smart TVs, Blu-Ray players and WiFi tablets from both Samsung and Vizio.
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Merchants and service providers have to sign up for smart tech before consumers follow.
Verizon customers who subscribe to both FiOS TV and Internet service can access the application via the Smart World section on LG's Smart TV interface.
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The bank has closed a dozen full-service branches, replacing them with the smart branches, and expects to have 30 more by the end of this year.
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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Field professionals can go from the warehouse to the job site and provide better, faster service because of the enhanced communication capability of the smart device.
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Additionally, the Smart Ecosystem is architected to integrate with automotive infotainment and mobile network service platforms.
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The consultants had, after all, worked with the postal service on electronic tracking and with electric utilities on using smart meters.
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There are hundreds of millions of PCs in service today that are going away and being replaced with smart phones and tablets.
One smart step is to learn to tap the connections they made in the service to uncover opportunities, says Nierenberg.
Mobile wireless telecommunications services play a critical role in the way Americans live and work, with more than 300 million feature phones, smart phones, data cards, tablets and other mobile wireless devices in service today.
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The Internet of Things is about smart products that communicate with you, with other products, and with the service technician.
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