It uses a Cisco network that constantly tracks retail sales patterns and an Internet customer center that routes calls to agents based on the languages they speak and their areas of expertise.
Each complaint will prompt a customer's Internet provider to notify the customer that their Internet address has been detected sharing files illegally.
It suddenly finds itself trying to sell its gear to a new, less Internet-savvy customer.
Cisco Systems was a pioneer in fabless electronic gear, taking advantage of the internet to connect customer orders directly to the shipping docks of its contract manufacturers.
Playboy's multimedia strategy includes TV network, Internet and wireless customer connections, which have been growing 15% a year and are now 60% of the business (publishing is half that).
The discrimination prohibition would require Internet providers to charge every customer the same price regardless of the customer's usage, and it prevents an ISP from prioritizing Internet traffic in any way, regardless of the time-sensitive nature of the traffic.
To play games at one of the Internet cafes, a customer gets a prepaid card and then goes to a computer.
In a world moving at Internet speed, a customer's objectives are constantly being revised, so programmers have to be able to hit a moving target.
Ellison knew when he acquired Sun that the explosion of the global Internet economy, the customer-engagement economy, the real-time-and-always-on economy, the Big Data economy, or the whatever-you-want-to-call-it economy, would trigger analytical and transactional workloads for Oracle customers that would crush traditional, non-optimized hardware and software combinations.
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This means going to small-to-medium sized brick-and-mortar businesses and using the Internet to help them with customer access and retention.
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Customer resistance to Internet-only banking has slowed revenue growth.
He said 36 percent of AOL broadband customers have more than one device on the network, and when the Internet goes down, the customer usually calls the ISP, even though the problem is usually on the HAN.
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The conversations were marked by phrases like "Internet time" and "customer-centric, " but fascinating as they were, no single peril emerged as the next Y2K. Instead, the experts veered from wild blue-sky prophecies to practical predictions of a more granular nature.
The 52-page decision by U.S. District Judge Alison Nathan dashes the hopes of ABC, NBC and other broadcasters that they could quickly shut down Aereo, which uses tiny individual antennas to capture TV signals that it streams to each customer over the Internet.
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Originally, the IETF thought ISPs would want to move to IPv6 to meet customer demand for new Internet addresses.
We also continue to see strong customer demand for FiOS Internet and TV, and for cloud and other strategic services.
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Internet shopping will mushroom, and customer satisfaction will improve.
The latest results of the American Customer Satisfaction Index for retail and e-commerce show Amazon with a solid lead in customer satisfaction in both Internet retailing and across the entire department, discount and specialty retailer chain categories.
In the fourth quarter of 2011, the increase in the number of customers using smartphones, along with T-Mobile USA's continued upgrade of its 3G and 4G networks helped drive Internet access revenue growth through the increased customer adoption of mobile broadband data plans.
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Telecommunications carriers and Internet firms do not just hand over sensitive customer information to law enforcement officers.
That's because court orders under the 1986 law are almost always sealed, and the Internet provider is generally prohibited from notifying the customer whose data is searched.
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But the deal between AOL and Unilever, the world's largest advertiser, will build on traditional ad arrangements by including clauses on sharing internet know-how, and knowledge on customer feedback and marketing, the firms said.
Even as sites like Google-owned YouTube have emerged as viable entertainment options, the move is a nod to a basic truth of leisure time: The estimated 4 billion television users worldwide is still a much bigger customer base than those using the internet.
Kameo was exporting that information over the Internet, giving hackers credit-card numbers, customer names and other details.
Apple took notice and repurposed the messages to be used as data points for internal use, evidenced by a graph charting customer complaints about the ill-fated Internet service, MobileMe.
These "smart" technologies can help business too, of course, as they help cement a community of four or five billion people who will be connected to each other via the internet, each and every one of them a potential customer.
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Internet sales are more difficult for German retailers, since the customer only has to pay for merchandise she bought at the end of the month.
If the customer hits the button on a client's Internet site, Harte-Hanks also answers that, for another 75 cents a pop, sending out canned or, in some cases, human-written responses and saving clients from tying up their own people and computer systems.
If the customer hits the button on a client's Internet site, Harte-Hanks also answers that, for another 75 cents a pop, sending out canned or, in some cases, personalized written responses and saving clients from tying up their own people and computer systems.
The structure of the charges can vary depending on payment method (by direct debit, pre-payment meter, or credit transfer such as cheque), on whether it is an internet-only tariff, which part of the country the customer lives in, if the deal involves a fixed price, when the deal was launched, how long it lasts, and so on.
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