Word: mason
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Playing college hockey south of the Mason-Dixon line, Alabama-Huntsville doesn’t often experience venues like the raucous Lynah Rink...
Stone said that, from conversations9 with Michigan State men’s hockey coach Ron Mason, she knows that the Spartans would like to have a women’s hockey program, but it would be a logistical nightmare...
Junior Sarah Ahlquist will steady the defense in the net. In front of her at the blueline, seniors Wanda Mason and Aviva Grumet-Morris will work to stop the opposing offensive line...
...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...
More than 25 million Americans carry simple m-commerce devices like the one Mason uses to buy lunch, according to analyst David Krebs at Venture Development Corp. Most are motorists who whiz through tollbooths daily, paying their way with electronic passes attached behind their windshields. In North America, 6 million now use m-commerce to pay for gas and fast food, and their numbers are growing at 70% to 80% a year. Since 1997, 5 million ExxonMobil customers have paid for gas with just a wave from little Speedpass wands on their key rings. Phillips 66 and Shell announced their...