Sentences with phrase «because phone companies»

We got a competitive market for dial - up Internet in the 1990s because phone companies were required to allow other service providers to operate using their infrastructure.

People know that «pen registers» and similar devices exist, or at least the technology to trace a call exists, because the phone company can track down people who make harassing calls.

The phone companies know what number is dialed, and people know that because the phone company's equipment has to know where to route you.

You might assume that, because the phone company theoretically knows where the phone call is coming from, they can show you an accurate number.

Not exact matches

But because it was the first smartphone Samsung launched after discontinuing its Galaxy Note 7 — some of which were found to have a battery defect that could cause it to explode or catch on fire — the company delayed the launch to implement a new safety - testing protocol to ensure the phones» batteries were safe, it said.

If someone tried to break in, an alarm would sound and the company would try to reach you by phone, but would not automatically dispatch the police, because they had no way to know if the alarm was triggered by accident, which was often the case.

Because of increasingly precise location tracking, your phone can collect records of where you go, and the services you use can apply that data to help companies target you with ads.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the speculation never made sense to him because he believes a company - produced phone might only end up in the hands of 10 million to 20 million people.

I started TaxiGuy, which is a national network of 400 cab companies that was really cool 15 years ago because they were linked together through a toll - free phone number and now it's moved to an app system.

«Callback was one of the major catalysts for deregulation in other countries, because the state - run phone companies couldn't compete with us,» he says.

What other company whose primary source of income is a printed phone book would take the time in 2012 to bother to warn investors that its revenue is in free fall because people don't use its product anymore.

«Don't you know how many phone companies have gone out of business because of hot cuts that ended up taking days?»

«I told them they should be selling to me at a lot less than they sell to big phone companies, because we're exporting the capacity — we don't compete with them in their home market,» he says.

«Jeff Bezos whiffed with the Fire phone last year and he realized he has to keep Wall Street happy because he pays people with stock,» Wedbush Securities analyst Michael Pachter said of the company's improved financial results in a Bloomberg report.

As the New York Times reported in late August, it may be easier for Apple to go after phone makers in lawsuits, because damages can be determined by the number of phones a company sold that were made using infringed patents.

Tech columnist John Gruber of the web site Daringfireball.net, says it's fitting for Apple (aapl) to add a deluxe «Pro» model to the iPhone line as it has done with iPads and Mac computers, especially because the company probably can't source enough of the OLED screens this year to include them on every phone.

«We've deliberately looked for people who are builders, who've been there with growth companies, who are best in class at what they do, and we really don't care where they're located, because at this small size we can do everything on the phone, and we use GoTo Meeting and Skype,» she says.

The South Korean company said that it sold 10m of the new phones after 28 days - and 20m after two months - but soon afterwards financial analysts marked down its stock because they felt the sales were slow, and indicated that the top end of the smartphone business, which the S4 targets, was tapped out.

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During my business travels to other countries, whenever I have needed a temporary sim card for my mobile phone and asked a local where I could get one, many times they would express shock when they would tell me to go to the store of one of their largest telecommunication companies and I would ask them to repeat the name of the company again because I had never heard of it.

Because a depressingly signficant number of people were freaked out by the idea that a phone app might not be pro-choice, the CEO of one of history's greatest tech companies felt the need to issue a mea culpa.

The pure evil gay - to - straight website / company I used in the story that Jan Brewer speaks about... well I guess they got FLOODED with phone calls and emails because they put this up at the very top of their homepage: http://i.imgur.com/Z51jaLe.png

«I was there because particularly we are one of the first Ghanaian - American companies to be launching a smart phone».

Mr Murdoch will be keen to argue that he was unaware of information suggesting phone - hacking was systemic before this time because it would contradict the company's long - held line that that it was the work of a rogue reporter.

Actress Rose McGowan's Twitter account was temporarily suspended because one of her tweets regarding the Harvey Weinstein scandal included a private phone number, according to the social - media company.

He is perennially re-elected, despite complaints that he doesn't return phone calls and conflicts of interest between his legislative duties and his private work for an outdoor advertising company, because he gets state funds for his 1st Senate District.

Hillis: I think there's another flaw in it, which is the robustness that it was designed for, is because at the time that it got designed, nobody trusted the phone companies to keep the lines up.

Because of the nature of the job, you are often provided with a company car, mobile phone and laptop.

Many companies already choose phone numbers precisely because they spell out a company - related word, but Topolinski says the number - word association occurs subconsciously, offering companies an opportunity for less explicit manipulation.

And because my work (both for the blog and my marketing company) is highly focused on the digital space, and I'm taking non-stop photos of the kids and their latest cute thing (everything), I make the excuse that I've always got to have my phone with me.

Having no real desire to take the initiative and get a shrink, Barry has a notion to call a phone sex company because they offer confidentiality and anonymity.

or a used car and asked to get the final price over phone because they were 40 minutes drive from my place, the girl who answered was from the new cars department and she said its a company's policy not discuss or disclose any price over the phone and if I come there they will be happy to negotiate and see what we can agree on, after driving for 40 min I had one of their salesmen jumping to offer and work with me on the car, I told him I need to buy the car and am looking to get more discount on the price.

BYD started as a cell phone manufacturing company, notable because several car manufacturers have stated that the hardest part of creating an electric vehicle marketable to the general public is perfecting the battery technology.

«SYNC puts Ford in a sweet spot in terms of vehicle connectivity because it allows us to take the cockpit of a vehicle and open it up to our customers» personal devices, especially the mobile phone — which is considered by many as an extension of oneself,» said Joseph Berry, a member of Ford's newly formed Consumer Service Organization and a lead architect of the company's emerging off - board services system.

Huawei chose to partner with Porsche Design because it understands that while it can design phones itself, there are other companies out there that can do it even better.

You would figure that RIM, being a Canadian company would have their finger on the market of what people want and it is sad that they haven't had their share of the market innovation as so many people like their blackberry name and function, but they are losing their following to other smart - phone providers just because of the same old story over and over released with a different model number stamped on the handset.

This might be a game changer because the Redmond company is adopting the «One Windows» strategy, which will unite phones, tablets, and PCs under a single operating system.

These companies have obviously dropped the ball and because of it windows phone will suffer severely among perspective buyers.

The more advanced cell phones get the more electronic companies or devices will parish like the e-reader because everyone want's everything on one device.

Part of the reason why RIM continues to plummet is because of its outdated technology and the fact that many corporate companies are switching to Google and Apple as their phones of choice.

In another sign of how grim things are looking for the PC, The Korea Times reported Monday that officials of Samsung Electronics, the South Korean manufacturer that is the biggest phone maker in the world, said the company would because demand was low and the devices were unprofitable, and would instead focus on tablets and laptops.

This step by step guide can be completed for both Xperia Arc and Arc S model number LT15i / LT18i because they are very similar phones; don't follow the same tutorial for other smartphones released by Sony, or by other companies as you can damage the system, or even wreck it.

I did get a phone call from KC Normans, out of the blue, probably because I had been on - line searching for a self - publishing Company.

As you might expect from a willfully ignorant leader like Chen, he believes that the company's first Android phone, the Priv, didn't sell as well as he'd hoped because it was too expensive.

Sure, companies are doing it in the phone market but that's mostly because they're so frightened of pissing off Microsoft.

Personally, I have always been a bigger fan of Samsung's Note series than its Galaxy S one; the company seems to always do more cool stuff with its Note phones and, because they come slightly later in the year, they're usually better equipped phones than their Galaxy S counterparts.

Cell companies do not like rim devices because rim updates all their phones and does nt make you purchase the next generation.

Since Kindle is both a device and a platform, Amazon can see when a customer owns both a Kindle and a tablet, or other handheld, because the company wisely built a Kindle app for multiple platforms: PC, Mac (s aapl), BlackBerry (s rimm), Android (s goog) and iOS, while a version for Windows Phone 7 (s msft) is coming soon.

How many business travelers have to stick with their BB because American companies still seem to think they only need phones that work in one nation alone.

When the connection is severed - perhaps because the user walks away with the phone - no sensitive data like company e-mails are left on the tablet.