Unwired View (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
As T-Mobile released its quarterly earnings and numbers today, it became much more apparent that there is a divide ever-expanding between the top 2 US carriers and the next 2. As AT&T and Verizon continue to grow its subscriber base from year to year, Sprint and T-Mobile are both losing customers. For Q3, T-Mobile lost 77,000 [...]
New York Times (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
South Africa cancelled a multibillion-dollar order for the Airbus A400M troop transport plane, dealing a painful blow to the program.
KnowHR Blog (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
... possible consequences and give you options for treatment. You should treat your business, and your customers, the same way. They have a right to know what exactly will be affected, and how. The complaint: No new knowledge “The big thing that I would like to know now is how frequently the trains are coming and how long my expected wait time is,” said Kelly, a banker, who had already been...
Hctor.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
... certain area stores special permission to sell the game early, in order to stem the tide of lost customers picking their copies up early from local mom and pop stores
Kotaku (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
... certain area stores special permission to sell the game early, in order to stem the tide of lost customers picking their copies up early from local mom and pop stores.Update: Activision says this was not the case. Activision contacted Kotaku today with an official statement regarding the situation in Bowling Green and surrounding areas: "Activision has not given any retailer permission...
Hctor.com (Free subscription) | 13 hours ago
... certain area stores special permission to sell the game early, in order to stem the tide of lost customers picking their copies up early from local mom and pop stores. Update: Activision says this was not the case. Activision contacted Kotaku today with an official statement regarding the situation in Bowling Green and surrounding areas: “Activision has not given any retailer permission...
fredzimny ccccc blog (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Found at http://www.crmbuyer.com/rsstory/68572.html By John K. Higgins CRM Buyer 11/06/09 4:00 AM PT Financial services firms have spent heavily on customer relationship management in the last 10 years, often adopting it with a defensive attitude: If our firm doesn’t invest in CRM, then we may lose customers to our competitors. Getting customer accounts was...
Kotaku (Free subscription) | yesterday
... certain area stores special permission to sell the game early, in order to stem the tide of lost customers picking their copies up early from local mom and pop stores.The employee actually greeted me with "Thank you for calling GameStop, where you can pick up Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2." Calls to my local GameStop stores were greeted with claims of jealousy and invitations to...
MyDD (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
... tailor founded in 1818. It runs every time that there's a funeral, Brooks Brothers loses another customer. The same might be said for conservatism. Here's how the New York Times describes the angrier-than-thou Bachmann insurgents that have descended upon the Capitol by the thousands to make a "House Call" as she put it. A series of spot interviews suggests that the protesters have...
Collecting my Thoughts (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
... insurers, to make Citizens the insurer of last resort. Nevertheless, Citizens found plenty of customers. After two bad hurricane seasons in 2004 and 2005 property insurance rates in Florida rose, and in his campaign for the office, current Governor Charlie Crist promised voters that if elected he would see that their property insurance bills “dropped like a rock.” One tactic...
Law Blog - WSJ.com (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
MetroPCS and Leap Wireless both saw customer growth slide in the third quarter amid intensifying competitive pressure on the prepaid end of the wireless industry.
Reason Magazine - Hit & Run (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
... insurers, to make Citizens the insurer of last resort. Nevertheless, Citizens found plenty of customers. After two bad hurricane seasons in 2004 and 2005 property insurance rates in Florida rose, and in his campaign for the office, current Governor Charlie Crist promised voters that if elected he would see that their property insurance bills “dropped like a rock.” One tactic...
Moco News (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
... said: “T-Mobile confirms it has fully restored voice and text/picture messaging services for customers affected by intermittent service disruptions on Tuesday. About five percent of our customers across various geographies were affected for much of Tuesday evening, and by late Tuesday PST their service was restored. Our sole focus has been restoring full services...
Law Blog - WSJ.com (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
The cable industry has managed to keep posting strong earnings despite the recession and competition from the Internet. Comcast on Wednesday reported a higher profit as it continued to show revenue growth despite losing customers overall and posting reduced gains in digital phone ...
i4U (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
T-Mobile has been going through some hard times lately. Profits have been down for months, a slow but steady flood of customers have fled the carrier, and the Sidekick Data Disaster certainly didn't help anything. The word on the street is that Deutsche Te...
