In Europe operators are increasingly renting their networks out to virtual service providers and are sharing capacity.
They are devotees of TRIZ, which teaches you that in most instances hardware dissolves it a virtual service.
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Better technology would also give the virtual service economy a boost, in particular by making it easier to select the best bid.
CloudTV is available on more than 10 million devices in the United States and abroad with Cablevision Systems, Ziggo, Oceanic Time Warner Cable and other operators, as well as on Philips-brand NetTVs, and is powering advanced user experiences for Net2TV, a virtual service provider.
The update also lays the groundwork for the imminent launch of the Wii U Virtual Console service.
Kenya will be added to the Portico virtual assistant service later this year.
While the virtual calling service has nothing to do with search, it's easy to see how Google could give the idea a boost.
But OnStar's virtual diagnostic service provides immediate data that can give engineers a jump on potential quality issues before customers even notice a problem.
Smart IT leaders cope with this shortage of generalists by moving to hybrid IT departments that manage cloud computing as well as more traditional IT functions, and that essentially run as virtual internal service providers, drawing on a menu of external managed services as demand requires.
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Already, it boasts mashups from Microsoft's Virtual Earth map service on Marriot's Web site.
If you are looking for a virtual phone number service and system, eVoice is worth a look.
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Nina is significant because it is the first virtual assistant customer service app to incorporate both speech recognition and voice biometrics into a single integrated solution.
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That's why we were intrigued to take a look at Nutrino, an iOS app that promises a "virtual nutritionist" service to help slice away the adipose from our stomach.
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Pre-CES rumors suggested Intel would announce a "virtual cable" service (before being stamped out) but the partnership with Comcast it actually revealed turned out to be far more conventional.
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Rumors have been circulating since at least December that the chip giant is working on its own set-top box and hopes to pair it with a "virtual cable" service that offers unbundled channels.
Give people tools to work at home and on the road: instant messenger, mobile phones, internet service, virtual meeting tools, webcams.
People can interact with Nina, the virtual assistant for customer service apps, and carry on a complex set of instructions within the same conversation flow.
Other high-paying anywhere jobs include technical writers , virtual tax preparers and customer service representatives .
Instead, criminals are often using virtual currencies like the Russian service Web Money and, until its founder was indicted last year, E-Gold.
Some funeral-industry professionals believe these online memorials and virtual grave sites provide a valuable service.
Gross margin, however, will likely remain higher because this increase will pull subscribers away from low incremental margin DVD plans to the virtual 100% incremental margin streaming service.
If you travel to Canada and want cellular service for more than emergency use, then plan on purchasing a local SIM card and perhaps using Telestial or another International virtual GSM network provider for inbound service.
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It has been suggested that virtual goods may be regarded as a service provided by game operators to players.
The service is free but includes paid virtual goods, additional avatars and song hooks from top artists.
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Three possibilities proposed by Cox: a "peer-to-peer" social network, a cluster of "virtual individual servers" running on a cloud service such as Amazon Elastic Computer Cloud, and "hybrid decentralization, " a mix of the two approaches.
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In the Pilot Texas Cloud Offering (PTCO), a small group of agencies were allowed to choose a virtual private cloud-based infrastructure as a service from a marketplace of service providers made available by a cloud broker.
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But for now, if a company hands its information technology infrastructure to a vendor like Amazon, it's largely locked in Amazon's proprietary cloud, with no easy way to move its virtual IT infrastructure to another company's service or back into its data center.
Our business might be virtual, but the employees and consumers using the service are not.
Singers, teachers, or other people using the service can earn money on YY via virtual goods.
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Matwyshyn said virtual property should be thought of like a "service" instead of something that's actually owned.
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