Utility companies use the tech to warn customers about imminent shutoffs.
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She serves them through the telecom and utility companies that use credit scoring for lower income clients.
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That's what he sees the utility and the use of those statements for.
Utility companies could also use this kind of information to ensure efficiency.
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It turned out to be more of a utility than anything else, a utility that people can use to build products on top of and use to form social groups and it changes it every time they use it.
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The teens did not have permission to use the sport utility vehicle, Holt said.
PopOff: For-profit Web sites will hate you, but if you use this free utility it will shut down pop-up advertisement windows before they get in your way.
Canadian company KSR provided a similar device to General Motors for use in its sport utility vehicles.
Canadian company KSR provided a similar device to General Motors (nyse: GM - news - people ) for use in its sport utility vehicles.
Collaboration with Microsoft resulted in a feature that lets Focus owners punch in their zip code and see if their local utility offers lower rates for electricity use when demand is low.
Their planning application seeks permission for the change of use of the land for British Romany Gypsy families for 13 permanent pitches for mobile homes, 13 touring caravans for nomadic use only and 13 utility day rooms, the council added.
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The council said the planning application sought permission for the change of use of the land for British Romany Gypsy families for 13 permanent pitches for mobile homes, 13 touring caravans for nomadic use only and 13 utility day rooms.
To create that personalized report for each residential customer in the East Bay utility district, WaterSmart will not only use historical records of water use but also real estate, demographic and weather data.
Company officials note that thanks to Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter, the world has been taught how to use the new social media utility, but unlike the others, Cancer.im is more than a social network.
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It's slick, as fast as everything else on this speedster of a phone, and it adds real utility to your day-to-day use.
While the first mainframes were utilities for technologists, the Internet quickly became a utility for the masses as people started to use computers to search, watch movies, create Powerpoint presentations and communicate with friends.
People will take a university or corporate campus and use the price signal of a specific utility to optimize generation internally.
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Personal energy use is no longer reflected solely in utility bills.
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Customers (in this case the school district) pay no money up-front, paying only for the solar energy they use and typically seeing reductions on their utility bills as soon as the system is connected to the grid.
As of now, most residential and commercial customers still pay their electric utility a flat rate multiplied by the kilowatt hours they use.
All that information would also make it easier for companies to participate in utility demand-response programs, in which they agree to use less electricity when needed to avoid a power outage in exchange for lower electricity rates, he added.
Even the much-maligned figure of rational economic man, maximising his utility, is less an article of faith than an excuse to use calculus.
Rogers has dusted off an idea from the 1970s that would allow a utility to earn money off the megawatts its customers don't use.
This is where the importance of utility comes into play, as any TLD without a clear and valuable use will, I assure you, ultimately fail.
They paid a Chinese engineer and a translator to spend three months teaching them how to use the contraption, which is the size of a sport utility vehicle.
The two biggest U.S. auto makers have agreed to jointly develop a nine-speed and a 10-speed automatic transmission for use in their portfolios of cars, crossovers, sport-utility vehicles and pickup trucks.
Utility customers only save money when smart meters help them to cut their energy use.
To offset the energy-gobbling building boom, the electric utility this month asked Sochi's 343, 000 residents to halt daytime use of air conditioners, teapots, irons and washing machines.
The new mission for the power and utility companies is to help clients manage their energy flow so they save on their energy use, increase their productivity and improve their margins.
Earlier this month, Debbie Dooley, another co-founder of the Atlanta Tea Party, urged the state's elected utility regulators on the Public Service Commission, all Republicans, to force Georgia Power to use more solar energy.
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