The addition of Vine could be a step toward convincing higher profile apps to join the Windows Phone 8 roster.
Tournament organizers and summer basketball coaches have long charged significant fees for packets of information about potential Division I recruits — player rosters, phone numbers and e-mail addresses — that are the lifeblood of the billion-dollar college basketball business.
On the phone they had read a roster of names of the men in his battalion.
"We have a lot of need," Robert Greenblatt, NBC's top entertainment executive, said in an interview by phone, but he called the roster of new shows "an embarrassment of riches".
The company, which has seen slowing growth in sales of its iPhone in recent quarters as the premium end of the smartphone market becomes saturated, is reckoned to be working on new products to add to its roster alongside its phone, iPad tablet and computers.
It can even change while she is on a shift: on the day that I trailed her she was expecting a six-hour shift in the morning but saw an appointment disappear from the roster on her phone while she was at another house.
Providing mobile access to information helps drive better service delivery because it means staff can be constantly kept informed, says Gittins. "Our research shows that if you want to change a roster using the phone, it takes 12 minutes to get through to your team, and leave voicemails, which may or may not be received," Gittins says.
Bad reporters find experts by calling up university press relations officials or brokerage research departments and saying, in effect, "Gimme an expert"; some academic publicity machines send out rosters, complete with phone numbers, e-mail addresses and areas of expertise, so that the lazy journalist doesn't even have to make that first call.
Today Palm held its conference call for its Q1 FY 2010 results, during which it outlined the performance of its roster of smart phones.
She also asks for fire and police phone numbers, as well as a roster of neighbors or family members who are allowed on the property.
