Sentences with phrase «phone companies as»

You should know that your credit score can impact decisions made by insurance companies, landlords, employers, utility and cell phone companies as well.

It is sadly common to see crowns attempt to tender a generic «security director» at a phone company as an expert on this subject, when in fact they haven't the foggiest clue how the data is generated or what it means.

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Companies that want to stay ahead of the curve should take note, as those messaging applications are now the preferred communication method instead of phone calls, text messages and emails.

Hearing - aid companies themselves are innovating, adding smartphone apps that let people use their phone as an extra microphone in a noisy place.

Discovery, like many traditional media companies, is working to get more of its content online as viewers increasingly go to their phones or other mobile devices to view programs.

Besides, companies are quickly learning that gopher - bopping unwanted phones as they're detected might not be the best way to go.

Start with something as simple as letting employees know that with the exception of attending to major deadlines such as a new - product release, the company refrains from phone calls or emails one hour each day — and that you're directly requesting all employees to observe it.

Wheeler's «split the baby» approach to the contentious net neutrality debate, reported on over the weekend by the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times, would effectively reclassify Internet service providers as public utilities akin to the phone companies under Title II of the Telecommunications Act, but only in dealing with large content providers such as Netflix and Google's Youtube.

Each company has multiple unlimited use plans (great for business people who are on the phone all day, such as Realtors), as well as roaming agreements that let users roam in major markets.

Each of these seven companies has a large stake in the phone industry, and following the end of the second quarter, it's a good a time as any to see how 2011 is shaping up for them.

Airbnb, for its part, figured out early on that «really bad» photos of its listings in New York City were keeping guests away, as co-founder Joe Gebbia recalled to Fast Company in 2012: «People were using camera phones and taking Craigslist - quality pictures.

As a CEO of a sales technology company, I can't help but think of some of the most notorious sales movies that showcase not only the effectiveness of phone - based selling, but also remind us that managing to a proven standard of selling activity hasn't changed.

The company covers computers and other home - office equipment, including monitors and stands, as well as employees» phone and internet services.

The company's shares sank for years as the BlackBerry lost ground to the iPhone and phones running Google Inc.'s Android system.

The company should be able to negotiate better group rates on phone and internet plans as it grows.

Companies such as Signal360 and Swirl offer powerful platforms to take advantage of smart phones» ample location - based data.

Hamilton's portfolio includes Text Engine, a startup that allows users with «dumb phones» to pull information from the internet; Radial, a music - streaming app focused on the soca, a Caribbean - based drum - heavy dance offshoot of calypso; and Tinsel, a hardware company that makes fashionable necklaces that double as headphones.

This month, Bloomberg reported Microsoft wouldn't be putting out new models, and an official statement said the company was focused on developing Zune software to run on other devices, such as the new Windows Phone 7.

As even more employees download work - related information and data onto their personal phones, these three factors are conspiring to make company data a potential casualty of biometric technology's legal protection problem, Bond says.

They told Moorhead that as part of the company's big reorg announced on April 19, Intel was killing some versions of its Atom line of processors, the multi-billion-dollar-losing line of system - on - a-chip (SoC) wafers aimed at competing with ARM - based chips in the least expensive tablets and phones.

The company promises merchants everything they need to promote their program in - store and online, as well as tools for sending offers directly to consumers» phones or for posting deals to Facebook and Twitter.

Consumers have been willing to let technology companies keep tabs on where they surf and where they take their phones, but when you're physically inside your computer as it hurtles down the highway, the stakes are higher.

The company largely relied on other gadget makers to build smartwatches running its software, but as it did with phones, may have to step in and make its own products.

The availability of dear old Dad has been an issue since September, when the 47 - year - old quit his former gig as head of Microsoft's business division in Redmond, Wash., and moved to snowy Espoo, near the Finnish capital of Helsinki, where he is currently trying to save the world's largest mobile phone company from itself.

One board member at an energy company carries around a wooden phone — as a joke mocking his colleagues» smartphone dependency.

In the future, companies will have to pay you for the data they get for free today such as name, email address, phone numbers, and social media profiles.

I think that design process will become a lot more common for companies as tablet and phone usage come to dominate people's uses for products.

«Particularly with oil prices hitting lows at some point in the first quarter... lots of sub investment - grade firms could be under a lot of stress, and for those with stronger balance sheets, those companies could take this as an opportunity to buy and acquire assets,» Deshpande said in a phone interview.

«I look at the move as a challenge and an opportunity,» says Augusta Scott, 61, who started answering phones in the Zappos call center in 2007 and now serves as the company's in - house life coach.

As Microsoft's phone sales plunge, Surface tablets are giving some life to the company's devices business.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg pitched the new headset as the «sweet spot» between the company's $ 400 Rift headset and the mobile phone - powered Gear VR headset that Facebook sells in partnership with Samsung.

When Apple announced the fix for the battery issues, the company didn't exactly spell out how the phones would be slowed down automatically as part of the solution, and it didn't give users a way to adjust those settings or even disable the option (and live with the unexpected shutdowns).

Countries such as India and the Philippines became popular destinations for companies looking for cheap phone labour.

Armed with a new phone and a new name, the company formerly known as RIM is making a comeback.

Intellifusion, a Shenzhen - based AI firm that provides technology to the city's police to display the faces of jaywalkers on large LED screens at intersections, is now talking with local mobile phone carriers and social media platforms such as WeChat and Sina Weibo to develop a system where offenders will receive personal text messages as soon as they violate the rules, according to Wang Jun, the company's director of marketing solutions.

Meanwhile, the iPhone 6 is well - made, but the company's Apple Pay payment system, which works via a chip inside the phone, could see the same fate as Google Wallet if enough retailers don't sign - on.

However, over the weekend it was also hit by fresh outrage over the fact that — as people discovered when they downloaded their Facebook data — the company was for years quietly harvesting users» call logs on Android phones.

RadioShack's bankruptcy, which has been expected for months, follows 11 consecutive unprofitable quarters as the company has failed to transform itself into a destination for mobile phone buyers.

To see which company is in better position to take over as the clear - cut No. 1 smartphone maker, we asked the next generation of smartphone users which they prefer: the Apple iPhone or Samsung Galaxy phones.

Most large companies, such as Google, Apple and Dropbox, offer 2FA with a mobile phone number or email account, and apps such as Authy and Google Authenticator can help you implement it with other apps and services.

«So even as innovation is producing wonderful things for consumers — you know, mobile phones instead of pay phones, email instead of snail mail, taxis at the press of a button — what you also see is that companies now have much higher odds of dying and dying suddenly,» says Vedantam.

While the country's two largest long - distance phone companies offer a variety of services that any business can sign up for, the third - and fourth - largest phone companies have taken aim at the low end — small companies with phone bills as slight as $ 100 a month.

In October 2012, Ballmer announced Microsoft would shift away from software and become a «devices and services company,» doubling down on phones, tablets (the Surface) and other hardware such as Xbox (one of the biggest successes of the Ballmer era), along with cloud computing.

OnePlus isn't making any concrete promises about its new facial recognition, however, as the company said it's designed more for convenience when unlocking the phone rather than security - intensive tasks like making mobile payments with Android Pay.

As a result of using the new service, the company has cut its international phone bill in half.

WallStEquities.com turns investors» attention to the Wireless Telecommunications Services industry, which consists of companies that are engaged in providing wireless communication services, such as paging, cell phone, and other satellite telecommunication services.

It seems to be the new norm for OnePlus phone releases, as the company made a similar move in 2016 by releasing its OnePlus 3T smartphone just six months after it released the OnePlus 3 in 2016.

He went off to the library and scoured the U.S. Department of Commerce database of foreign companies for multinationals that had anything to do with phone systems and sent them each a letter soliciting them as customers and, more important, as agents for that country.

Clicking any entry produced a screen bearing the company's address and phone number at the top, with icons for relevant info or tasks such as initiating a phone call, displaying a map, or even making a purchase.

Would Apple still be charging as much as it does for its phones, and would the company be posting eye - popping financial results?