Capital One Financial announced settlements with two bank regulators on Wednesday over deceptive marketing practices related to add-on products sold to credit card customers.
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In 1982 Jabil went into high-tech with a contract to make add-on boards for the IBM Personal Computer unit in Boca Raton, Fla.
The third-party call centers it had hired used high-pressure sales tactics to sell consumers add-on features to their credit cards but misled them about the benefits.
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This is an inexpensive, easy-to-install, and add-on product designed to improve the user experience on desktop and laptop PCs running Windows 8.
Richard Egan, an early Andy Grove protg at Intel, and former college buddy Roger Marino set up EMC in 1979 to build add-on memory for minicomputers.
Ben connects Josh's wheelchair to the add-on motor assembly by leveraging the weight of the chair itself and the front tine that sits on the footrest, completing the perfect mobile accessory for the dad-to-be.
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Premiering at Photokina this week, the souped-up G700SE is a modified version of the G700 that appeared last month, with this guy able to accept add-on modules that can boost functionality by a good bit.
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In the meantime, most of the 11.1 million boxes deployed by the major cable companies have puny, 33-megahertz processors too slow for the code-heavy TV Guide Interactive to easily add video-on-demand and the like.
If this is really just going to be an add-on for Comcast customers, then they have less reason to worry.
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Instead, they will focus on their latest respective motion-sensing add-on systems to the current-generation consoles, Kinect and PlayStation Move.
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Employers, who have in the past pushed schools to add more hands-on training and global coursework, could successfully agitate for more ethics instruction.
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One expects the margins on EarPods to be strong, and sales to be robust as a nice add-on accessory for those not yet ready to upgrade.
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Apparently some of the best leadership ideas can be wrung from stand-up comedians--that is if you believe Roger Edward Jones, a management coach who has dabbled in stand-up and subsequently become inspired to add to the ever-growing mountain of books on management self-help.
The timing of the increase makes sense for Microsoft because it is about to launch Kinect, its new motion-sensing add-on to the Xbox 360 console.
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The reason is that if this analysis is internally consistent then we ought to be able to add layer-by-layer on to it until we get to the complete analysis.
Before Zynga acquired the game, OMGPOP also added the ability for the company to add new words to the game on-the-fly, allowing it to add terms related to pop culture and news events.
Shari Redstone, National Amusements' president, originally planned to use the concert space as an add-on theater to its next-door Cinema de Lux, one of National's top theaters, but the daughter of the company's billionaire owner Sumner Redstone gambled on a different model.
Moreover, it can reportedly "reprogram the steering ratio and amplify the intensity and quickness of the steering response" to keep motorists safe, but there's no word on whether or not a retinal scanner add-on will be available to automatically adjust user preferences depending on which driver hops in the seat.
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Still, as streaming services from Netflix, Hulu, Pandora and others began to proliferate across lots of different add-on boxes, it made sense to add them onto Xbox Live (even if the programming wasn't) as well as the PlayStation Network.
On a related note, if you weren't yet sold on Google TV, a breath of fresh AIR might help -- Adobe told us it's presently pondering the correct time to add the cross-platform runtimes on Google's video streaming boxes as well.
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An airplane adapter and a specially designed hard carrying case add to their on-the-go convenience.
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Those revenues are particularly important to cellular carriers, who are relying more on data services and add-on charges to buoy their bottom lines.
Senior guard Mike Black, the tournament's most outstanding player, led Albany with 14 points, while Luke Devlin came off the bench to add 12 on 6-for-6 shooting.
You may need to check the settings on your browser add-ons to ensure they aren't blocking the player or Flash.
The big add-on is a sixth strand to add to those of skills, government support for business, infrastructure and spreading growth fairly around the country and between income groups.
Mr Ryan chairs the budget committee in the Republican-controlled House of Representatives, and is seen as likely to add electoral firepower on what are expected to be the key election issues - jobs, the economy and the budget deficit.
In addition to his many papers exploring the basic science of the renin-angiotensin system, Matsubara was the chief investigator of the KYOTO HEART Study, a randomized, open-labeled trial studying the add-on effect of valsartan to conventional therapy in high-risk hypertension.
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Ms. Anoussi says she sees it as a possible add-on to a trip to Costa Rica.
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"Sport isn't an add-on to society, it's an integral part of it, " he said.
Aimster is an add-on to the software that lets users swap files with the people in their buddy lists.
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