Sentences with phrase «phone out of the company»

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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.

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).

When was the last time you sat on the phone with a customer service rep or stood in the middle of a store, hoping someone would help you out, knowing full well if no one responded gracefully, you'd be done with that company — for good?

The company also made sure to have more product available during the holiday season to avoid out of stocks and was well positioned to take advantage of heightened consumer interest in products like mobile phones and video games.

The company said it is seeing «strong shipments» of Moto Mods and the Moto Z phones they work with, singling out sales in Brazil and India in particular, and it introduced new Mods just this week.

Facebook has a special lab stocked with low - end Android phones, old flip phones and weak networking to help the company figure out what computing conditions are like in parts of the world with limited internet connection.

Huawei is a Chinese electronics company, relatively unknown on this side of the Pacific but turning out an increasingly impressive line of products, including the latest generation of Google Nexus phones.

Beyond the work the company has done to keep the wrong people out of the phone, Apple claims that Face ID will let the right person in even in the dark, while wearing glasses or a hat, and after growing a beard.

It will even take accurate measurements through augmented reality, which means that you can go from mapping out your room to browsing a filtered selection of Lowe's products without having to put down your phone to wrestle with a tape measure,» according to Fast Company.

As Fortune recently reported, this is a company that wants to develop an ecosystem ranging from phones to rice cookers, so getting some laptops out there makes a degree of sense.

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

James Murdoch, the son of billionaire media mogul Rupert, is to return as the chairman of the U.K.'s biggest pay - TV company Sky Plc (skyay), four years after a phone - hacking scandal forced him out, regaining his grip on a group that now spans five European countries and is growing strongly.

The bold thinkers at the core of these companies are able to work as they see fit — they can stand for phone calls, sprawl out on a couch to decompress, hold meetings outside or close all the doors for focused work when they're really motivated by a new idea.

Address these stressors, then, by setting company - wide standards for communication and encouraging brief, face - to - face meetings and phone calls instead of drawn - out email discussions.

Then he laid out his publishing company's process: Rusk would spend between 10 and 12 hours being interviewed over the phone by an Advantage editor, and those interviews would then be transcribed and molded into a series of chapters.

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.

Tired of working at a job with little prospect of advancement, he formed his own company — Tuchman Sports Enterprises — out of a corner of his apartment with one phone and a fax machine.

Twitter today is taking another step to build up its machine learning muscle, and also potentially to improve how it delivers photos and videos across its apps: the company is acquiring Magic Pony Technology, a company based out of London that has developed techniques of using neural networks (systems that essentially are designed to think like human brains) and machine learning to provide expanded data for images — used, for example, to enhance a picture or video taken on a mobile phone; or to help develop graphics for virtual reality or augmented reality applications.

Meanwhile, the power company said its own customer service center was out of service and asked people to go online or use the phone.

These words were common among the 20,000 messages received when CNN and mobile technology company Jana.com carried out a mobile phone survey in 11 countries asking Africans: What would be the impact of an African pope on the continent, or you?

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 telephone company reported that 1,700,000 more phone calls were made that day into and out of the Los Angeles basin than on a normal Tuesday.

The company arranged a couple of phone interviews with small, out - of - state schools, but they were expensive options with minimal scholarship offers.

Hundreds of journalists at the News of the World, the vast majority of whom have never hacked a phone in their life, are out of work (although sources suggest they were drinking pints of champagne on the company card Thursday night).

Also, a person would have to be dumb not realize that smart phones and apps are a way for phone companies to squeeze A LOT more money out of the cell phone market — which was pretty much saturated until smart phones came along.

Still, from the phone records in the FBI affidavit, parts of which are up on the Smoking Gun, it didn't seem like it was a woman - friendly workplace, from the male founder who said that a would - be call girl «looks like a butcher in my opinion» to the conversation about the «baggage» a worker with kids has to the outraged indignation of an applicant who was «shock and confuse» that the company expected its employees to have sex with men who don't even take them out to dinner.

Liberal Democrat Home Affairs Spokesman, Tom Brake MP, who sits on the House of Commons Home Affairs Select Committee, says: «Clearly people will be shocked to find out that # 8.5 has been spent by police forces around the country to obtain data they need from the mobile phone companies.

As phone - makers, retailers and credit card companies work out the feasibility of NFC as a gateway to facilitating commerce, others see the technology as opening doors — literally.

Initial trials of consumer products involving graphene - based touch screens and batteries for mobile phones and composite materials for sports goods are being carried out by major multinational companies.

I remember many year back I worked for a Taiwanese company, and the owner told me if I ever wanted to have kids, to keep my cell phone out of my pocket.

Telephone dating companies you would pay them for the opportunity log into their own separate phone system (for women it was free of course) and check out profiles.

According to a recent study conducted by Bandwidth, a communications technology company, 58 percent of online daters surveyed regretted giving out their phone number to someone on an online dating site.

PRNewswire — Jan 19 — Webdate announced today at the Internet Dating Conference in Miami that Webdate Mobile (TM), the company's go - anywhere, flirt - anytime mobile dating service has been expanded to support 19 phones with another 45 to be rolled out through March of this year, representing 80 % of all data - capable U.S. mobile phones.

Calling all single men and single women, we all understand how aggravating it can be when you want to go out on a Friday night with the intention of meeting someone whose company you enjoy, only to come home without anyone or, worse yet, no phone numbers.

Prior to hanging out with them, it might be a good idea to build with a few weeks or months of phone calls, subsequently you would know if you are very likely to have fun with each other's company.

His semi-estranged son, Max (Jack Kilmer) drops in unannounced after dropping out of college, wanting neither money nor a helpful phone call to a record company on behalf of his band, but something much more problematical: his father's time.

Adam is working for a floundering cell phone company run by Nicolas Wyatt (Gary Oldman), a once powerful man in the industry who, Adam tells him during a presentation that could get he and his friends out of their entry - level jobs, has started to lose touch with his customers.

As the market is overloaded with diverse models of smart phones such as tablets and iPhones, companies will have to shell out a lot of money to create and maintain different types of websites that will go well with each of such devices and the same is not viable.

The growing use of telematic systems by car companies will permit critical marketing and repair information to flow wirelessly using cell phone technology to the dealer, leaving the independents out of the loop.

The studio, along with BlackBerry parent company and project partner Research in Motion (RIM), today announced the Porsche Design P» 9981 BlackBerry smart phone, the first ever smart phone to come out of the studio, which first opened its doors in 1972.

Blackberry CEO John Chen has stated that this phone is make it or break it and that the company would be out of the handset business in a year if it can't make a profit from it.

Microsoft might be out of the smartphone - making business for the time being, but the company has been rumored to be working on a high - end Surface Phone.

Nokia's C2 - 03 is the third dual SIM phone the company has brought out of late, for use with two SIM cards — one for business and a second for personal use, or one for local calls and another for international calling.

Voice over IP company Vonage came out with a mobile phone application towards the end of the week, which allows for free voice calls to Facebook friends over both 3G and WIFI.

A mid-range Android phone like this would have been an interesting choice for consumers priced out of the premium market, and in turn, helped the company's sagging hardware division.

These variable custom - made tariffs were once only offered by go - betweens, such as Carphone Warehouse, Phones 4U and similar companies where now it appears that mobile phone networks are cutting out the middle man with these types of deals.

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.

This fledgling phone company is asking you to forsake a lot of great smartphones out there to try its weird hybrid.

Instead the company has licensed out its brand to TCL who has been making BlackBerry phones for the past couple of years.

The bad news was that the company had technical issues taking the order, so it took a few phone calls and a week of waiting for them to come out.