Sentences with phrase «phone company before»

Cell phones Your credit score will be checked by the cell phone company before they choose to grant you a plan.

If you're like me and would prefer water - boarding to trying to decipher one of those microscopic font Agreements, phone the company before applying for its card and ask whether it retains Universal Default rights.

All the swipe - based interactions have been tried by other phone companies before, with varying degrees of success.

Not exact matches

Cloud - based phone services are allowing companies to manage customer phone calls with more flexibility than ever before.

Dao points to the hypothetical example of a company that wants to improve customer service ratings, but which has an extensive automated phone tree before customers can talk to an actual person.

So Vanguard has beefed up «engagement» efforts — holding 817 meetings, phone calls, and videochats with companies in the past year compared with 685 the year before.

The company just unleashed a slew of new smartphones at an event in San Francsico, from a massive, 6.4 - inch phablet that brings augmented reality to the phone like never before, to a watch - like phone that beeeends... and snaps!

Once Exact Transactions was able to display that data on TV monitors throughout the company and to employee mobile phones, decision makers were able to detect patterns that hadn't been obvious before their ability to see it visualized over time.

Claure, a successful entrepreneur who sold his phone trading company Brightstar to SoftBank for $ 1.3 billion before taking the top job at Sprint, adds his considerable business acumen to Tidal's strong artistic lineup.

Before opening its first New York — area store, the company took out full - page ads in major papers, including The New York Times, that showed only the Bullseye logo and a phone number.

When I reach him by phone, he tells me that SolarCity is in a «place now where a strong operator can take over without much impact,» and that he plans to take a break before starting another company that might have «another large impact on humanity.»

Known now as the world's largest cell phone maker, Nokia started off as a pulp - and - paper company in the mid-1800s before expanding into power generation around 1900.

When I went inside to call my insurance company for roadside assistance I realized my phone was completely dead and I had to charge it before I could even make the call.

Scam alert: Residents are warned to hang up the phone and never provide credit card or banking information over the phone when receiving a call from a person claiming to work for Microsoft, Geek Squad or some other nationally recognized tech company and requesting information before eliminating a virus found on a computer.

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.

This was two days before Brooks, along with Rupert and James Murdoch, was due to appear before the Commons culture, media and sport select committee to be quizzed about the phone - hacking scandal and governance at the company.

Les Hinton, Rupert Murdoch «s lifelong lieutenant and closest adviser, faces questions over whether he saw a 2007 internal News International report, which found evidence that phone hacking was more widespread than admitted by the company, before he testified to a parliamentary committee that the practice was limited to a single reporter.

Hinton, who after 52 years at the company is seen as a key Murdoch henchman, faces tough questions over whether he saw the report before he testified to a parliamentary committee that the phone hacking scandal was carried out by a «single rogue reporter».

Nokia had been working on a gesture - based phone interface long before Microsoft bought the company's devices and services business this year.

Japanese phone company NTT is developing technology that will let you smell before you buy over the internet.

She reached a pleasant, well - spoken woman on the phone and got a text message with an ETA from the responding local service company before she'd even hung up.

«Microsoft will be this year the first company on the planet to have a consistent UI from the smart phone to the tablet to the slate, to the reader to the rich client and to the TV with our Metro UI,» said Turner, before also adding, «We know the power of getting that consistent user experience is something our whole product portfolio will benefit from.»

Having said that, the company has also decided to share some of the phone's main selling points before the device becomes available.

Earlier in the week, Samsung and Nvidia formally confirmed that the two «companies are also partnering to bring a new Android - based super phone with a dual - core CPU to consumers, for never - before - seen experiences.»

Qt was Nokia's preferred developer framework before the company switched to Windows Phone, and there's a population of disgruntled Symbian developers with Qt skills watching their potential market decline as Nokia switches over to Windows.

Even more concerning is that while RIM waits for new LTE chips before it can launch any BlackBerry 10 phones — apparently the vendor is only working on 4G smartphones right now, despite the fact that many of its biggest markets have not even begun to deploy LTE networks — the company also continues to have huge development issues that grow more daunting each day.

The details are muddy, but apparently RIM turned down Amazon before talks could get too heated, and has turned down other offers as well, with the board preferring to use existing internal assets, like BBM, and perhaps some restructuring (and of course, new phones) to turn the company around.

It's also possible one or both companies will cut prices again before Christmas sales ramp up, which could help sell more phones.

Unfortunately, it looks like there's going to be quite a wait ahead, as most of the company's phones still have a long way to go before they get updated: only the Xoom Family Edition, Atrix 2, Atrix 4G, Photon 4G, Xoom 2, Xoom 2 Media Edition, and the international variants of the RAZR, Xyboard 8.2 and Xyboard 10.1 have estimated release dates, and all of the updates are slated for Q3 of this year (other than the Xoom Family Edition and the RAZR, which are given a Q2 estimate).

Thinking back, I'm pretty sure I was a BlackBerry user for well over a year before I even knew that the company making the phone was called Research In Motion.

The Amazon Appstore already has Facebook, Twitter, and Spotify; but even better, the company is promising it'll have Instagram, WhatsApp, and Uber available on the Fire Phone before long.

Speaking during a press briefing Tuesday morning at Google's annual developer conference, Android headman Andy Rubin said — as he has said before — that Google used a «shortcut» to get Honeycomb to market and that the company did not release it to open source because it was not suited for use on phones.

The total number of Gingerbread devices (phone and tablet) make up 38.7 percent of the distribution, or approximately 73.5 million — and that number is sure to rise given the Gingerbread - powered Amazon Kindle Fire and the hundreds of Gingerbread phones due out before every company gets a row at the yet - to - be-unveiled Ice Cream Sandwich update.

Representatives from Polaroid have also confirmed during CES that the company intends to sell the phone for $ 299.99 beginning in April and the release window hinges upon completion of final development work before then.

The company's latest smartphone, the Galaxy S III, had an enormous around of hype surrounding it before the phone was even announced.

Of course, we all had a sneaking suspicion the company's Fire phone would flop long before it was ever >>

The FTC's Telemarketing Sales Rule prohibits companies that sell debt settlement and other debt relief services on the phone from charging a fee before they settle or reduce your debt.

In a roundabout way, cell phone companies extend credit to customers by providing minutes before payment is required.

Before you agree to do anything, ask for the company name, phone number, and address of the company.

Telecom companies may check your rating before they give you a phone, as will other businesses that want to know if you have good credit before they enter into an agreement with you.

Feth knows what he's talking about because he failed at two small businesses of his own before making a success of a third one — a small radio communications business that he eventually sold for a healthy profit to cell phone company Clearnet Communications.

For instance, cell phone and TV service companies often need to determine how credit worthy you are before they invest a great deal of upfront cost in you.

Each insurance company will require you to submit several pieces of personal information before they can provide you with a quote, and you may receive phone calls from sales representatives, but this process can help you find the insurance you need.

Before you pick up the phone to call your credit card company you're better off doing a bit of research first.

The change is that companies offering debt relief services over the phone can not collect advance fees from you before settling or reducing your debt, before having an agreement for debt management or other services in place, or until you've made at least one payment to a creditor as a result of a plan negotiated by the debt relief provider.

The Telemarketing Sales Rule, enforced by the Federal Trade Commission, requires companies that sell debt relief services to explain their fees and tell you about any conditions on their services before you sign up; it also prohibits companies that sell debt relief services by phone from charging a fee before they settle or reduce your debt.

When she answers a phone call from MoneySense, it doesn't take long before she turns the conversation to the mining company Teck, and China's appetite for resources.

Your utility or phone company will do a soft credit inquiry before making a decision if you have to make a downpayment or not.

Lastly, it pays to use airline partners such as rental car companies, mobile phone service providers, and real estate agents to earn those precious points, and before you know it that holiday to the Maldives won't be such a pipe dream after all.

We know a lot about what certain retail companies might want and what their expectations are around tenancy terms, so we've created teams that know the tenant and we understand before we've even picked up the phone to the solicitor acting for the tenant precisely what the points are going to be and we can clear those with the client.