Before the invention of electronic amplifiers, mechanically coupled carbon microphones were also used as amplifiers in telephone repeaters for long distance service.

It is the first comprehensive electronic commerce service.

The program also includes " the introduction of the eCounsellor network – a service through which professionals provide assistance for citizens in the effective usage of electronic information, services and knowledge ".

* EU Data Retention laws requires Internet service providers and phone companies to keep data on every electronic message sent and phone call made for between six months and two years.

For this service, he won the 2003 " Friend of EPIC " award for service to the electronic publishing community.

Modern day Purple Heart presentations are recorded in both hardcopy and electronic service records.

Because the electronic process requires compatible software that works with Companies House eFiling service, companies are usually formed through a Company Formation Agent.

* 1979 – Compu-Serve launches the first consumer internet service, which features the first public electronic mail service.

* Transcription ( service ), a business which converts speech into a written or electronic text document

As well as a website, Stars and Stripes publishes four daily print editions for the military service members serving overseas ; these European, Mideast, Japan, and Korea editions are also available as free downloads in electronic format, and there are also seven digital editions.

Food service chains partner with food equipment manufacturers to design highly specialized restaurant equipment, often incorporating heat sensors, timers, and other electronic controls into the design.

Smart-card-based " electronic purse " systems store funds on the card so that readers do not need network connectivity and entered service throughout Europe in the mid-1990s, most notably in Germany ( Geldkarte ), Austria ( Quick Wertkarte ), Belgium ( Proton ), France ( Mon € o ), the Netherlands ( Chipknip and Chipper ( decommissioned in 2001 )), Switzerland (" Cash "), Norway (" Mondex "), Sweden (" Cash ", decommissioned in 2004 ), Finland (" Avant "), UK (" Mondex "), Denmark (" Danmønt ") and Portugal (" Porta-moedas Multibanco ").

CompuServe began offering electronic mail capabilities and technical support to commercial customers in 1978 under the name Infoplex, and was also a pioneer in the real-time chat market with its CB Simulator service introduced in 1980.

Beginning in January 2010, Dish Network charges $ 6. 00 as a DVR service fee, which covers cost of licensing EPG ( electronic program guide ) from TV Guide.

A Web service is a method of communication between two electronic devices over the World Wide Web.

It was one of the last remaining mechanical ' flapper ' display boards at a British railway station and certainly the largest, but was removed from service in September 2007 and replaced by electronic boards.

The collection is now available on CD-ROM at some research libraries and an electronic version is online as a subscriber service in addition to which the series has been made available through Google Books and archive. org.

Intermediate sanctions include sentences to a halfway house or community service program, home confinement, and electronic monitoring, but also financial sanctions like fines, forfeiture, and restitution ; these are sometimes applied in combination.

* Dial-a-truck, or DAT-the first electronic freight posting / searching load board service

After the sale of assets to DirecTV, ReplayTV's only ongoing activity was maintenance of the electronic program guide service by D & M Holdings, which was to be discontinued on July 31, 2011.

It still provides electronic program guide service to existing customers, using content from Tribune Media Services.

On June 15, 2011, D & M Holdings announced it was permanently discontinuing the ReplayTV electronic program guide service:

In light of this response, ReplayTV and its parent company Digital Networks North America, Inc. have decided to continue the electronic programming guide service pursuant to the terms of your service activation agreement.

Most of this information is now collected, processed and stored on electronic computers and transmitted across networks to other computers.

Digweed, as well as Sasha, established a monthly residency at the now defunct New York club Twilo, which proved a key location for the American electronic music scene.

WordNet " is a type of an online electronic lexical database organized on relational principles, which now comprises nearly 100, 000 concepts " as Dirk Geeraerts states it.

Their original " gadget " is now in the Smithsonian's collection of early electronic devices.

the vast majority of transistors now are produced in integrated circuits ( often shortened to IC, microchips or simply chips ), along with diodes, resistors, capacitors and other electronic components, to produce complete electronic circuits.

Several A-Class tournaments, however, are now trialing electronic scoring equipment contained within competitors ' body protectors.

The overhead for custom design is now reaching a tipping point, with many design houses opting to switch to electronic design automation ( EDA ) tools to automate their design process.

Many journals now publish the final papers in their electronic version as soon as they are ready, without waiting for the assembly of a complete issue, as is necessary with paper.

Seats now include monitors for the electronic libretto system provided by radio marconi, an Italian company, allowing audiences to follow opera libretti in English and Italian in addition to the original language.

Recent advances in the stability of electronic oscillators also now permit interferometry to be carried out by independent recording of the signals at the various antennas, and then later correlating the recordings at some central processing facility.

Marketed as a premium product for the fans who absolutely positively have to read it now, they are priced at full $ 15 per single title and can in fact differ from the final text ( as they are in fact electronic proofs ).

The Paris Bourse, now part of Euronext, is an order-driven, electronic stock exchange.

From the early days of a studio full of tape reels and electronic oscillators, the Workshop now found itself in possession of various synthesisers including the EMS VCS 3 and the EMS Synthi 100 nicknamed the " Delaware " by the members of the Workshop.

The electronic color code was developed in the early 1920s by the Radio Manufacturers Association ( now part of Electronic Industries Alliance ( EIA )), and was published as EIA-RS-279.

Sydney is famous for its alternative rock scene, boasting such names as The Celibate Rifles, indie rockers The Clouds, The Vines and The Crystal Set, to electronic music pioneers Severed Heads, Single Gun Theory, The Lab, Itch-E and Scratch-E and local favourites Sneaky Sound System. and is the original home of the now national alternative rock festival the Big Day Out, which began in Sydney in 1992 featuring local bands such as You Am I and The Clouds and international groups like Nirvana.

Although the term is now most commonly used in reference to modern electronic devices such as a monome, the piano and guitar may also be said to be early examples of music technology.

In the computer age however, the ontological range of music technology has greatly increased, and it may now be mechanical, electronic, software-based or indeed even purely conceptual.

It was traditionally a purely mechanical device but, in most modern vehicles, it is now electronic.

It is more common now for payments may be made in cash, by credit card, by pre-paid card, or by an electronic toll collection system.

Breadboards have evolved over time, with the term now being used for all kinds of prototype electronic devices.

Daisy wheel technology is now found only in some electronic typewriters.

Although per capita employment growth in the sector has been in decline in Arizona since 2000, semiconductor and other electronic component manufacturing was largely unaffected ; a series of customized grants for the training of net new employees, incorporating the Phoenix urbanized area ( twenty-seven thousand workers now commute to work in other communities ), resulted in a larger market share of ( Californian ) industry.

Their primary goal, as stated by BantheCams. org, is to, “ educate and equip local citizens with a way to combat the abuse of power now being exercised by local and state governments with the regards to the use of electronic surveillance devices .”