Apple has been relying on selling third-party products related to home control in Apple Stores.
Others have ceded control to third-party service providers and business managers who now make their own technology decisions.
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ECoS is an open software platform that can host a range of third-party applications that provide intelligent distributed control services to utilities and their customers.
Many factors are at play here dealing with individual or third-party data retention policies sometimes beyond your control as well as continued usage of the same private encryption key and password.
If used, your offering will have a reliance on the security and stability of third-party base code which is out of your control.
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However, there are third-party email marketing providers that offer companies more control over their data, and I would expect them to get more attention in light of recent events.
One last thing: Over the long run the only way to tame health care costs in the U.S. is to wrest control of medical dollars from third-party insurers such as employers and government--and hand it to individuals.
The fact is that even after multiple third-party data breaches, many brands have still not moved to take control of email programs by bringing them in-house.
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And it can get started through nefarious third-party apps, or when people download malware outside Facebook or Twitter that gives hackers control of their computers.
As I argue elsewhere, an example of this is the manner in which legal departments control the tripartite relationship between client, law firm, and third-party legal service outsourcing providers.
Davies Murphy Group's Chris Green said companies would worry about their lack of control over the new process even though it did not rely on a third-party's data centre to update what might be sensitive files.
Selling Worldwide could mean the BBC losing control of its prime assets - its brands and its programmes - to a third party which would not be in the interests of licence payers.
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