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...embossing and lots of big loopy writing. They look like Ivy League diplomas but the President's signature is unmistakable from across the room. Now, many of those totems still lean against office walls, un-hung. New mementos are now being collected by people like Chief of Staff Andy Card, who has laminated copies of every major paper from September 12th, the day after the attack...
FINANCIAL MANAGER A database that monitors credit-card receipts, purchase orders, cash transactions and checks to track equipment, machinery and materials that could be used in making...
...wand's not magic. It's just a plastic doodad smaller than a lipstick, embedded with a tiny electronic chip that is scanned by a reader in the vending machine. The reader taps Mason's credit account over the Internet and works much like a credit card--something most vending machines won't accept, along with crumpled dollar bills. Mason's wand from FreedomPay, based in Wayne, Pa., lets him eat not just from the machines at work but also at any of Boise's 31 McDonald's restaurants. Says Mason: "Now I don't starve...
...next natural evolution in cashless payments, after credit cards and debit cards," says Robert Pons, co-founder of FreedomPay. "Consumers want to make cashless payments at fast-food restaurants, car washes, coffee shops, convenience stores and video stores--places where you typically cannot use a card." Merchants looking to speed up service and cut down on employee theft are salivating--as are credit-card companies, which have had a difficult time grabbing a share of $10-and-under purchases...
...commerce chips, when scanned by a reader, transmit a unique code, your ID, which zips down the Internet to an account sitting in a computer at a transaction-processing company. No credit-card information is transmitted between the reader and the tag, so that information cannot be hijacked. 2Scoot bills your credit card of choice, while FreedomPay uses a debit system that deducts money from an "electronic purse" set up in advance using either cash or a credit card...