Word: snappingly
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...dimensional bar code commonly found on the front of magazines, which can bounce readers to a website, a competition or discount coupons. Last October in Tokyo, Northwest Airlines blew up QR codes to as large as 10 m in height and put them on billboards for passersby to snap, decode and win air miles in an online contest. Television execs are not about to give up the game, but on one selling point the outdoor industry is improving: its metrics. How many people see an outdoor ad and when they see it can be tracked much more accurately than ever...
...send a custom-made postcard, simply snap a picture with your mobile and send it to British-based firm Mobycards, tel: (44-7921) 505050, or as an e-mail from your phone to postcard@mobycards.com if you're signed up with a non-British mobile provider. In the text part of the message, type "Mobycards" followed by the recipient's address and your greeting. Mobycards will then print your picture and message in old-fashioned postcard form and pop it in the mail the same day, as long as you contact Mobycards before 3 p.m. GMT. The service is available...
...France has a plethora of long-term, short-term, temporary and limited work contracts that are at the heart of the current dispute. Russia in theory has a civil code that lays down workers' rights, but in practice you get hired the same way you get fired, at the snap of a finger. Précarité, the word that brings millions of young French people out into the streets, is the norm there. Forget about a pension big enough to retire on-you have 40 years to figure that out. Health care is more problematic, since getting sick puts...
...January his critics, centered around Bangkok and the insurgent-plagued southern part of the country, have used the $1.9 billion tax-free sale of his family-owned firm to foreign investors as a rallying cry for demonstrations demanding change. Their noisy campaign prompted Thaksin to dissolve parliament and call snap elections, confident that his party machine would deliver the necessary votes on Apr 2. It did - over 50% of Thai voters kept the faith with the ruling Thai Rak Thai party, especially in the poor countryside where Thaksin's healthcare and housing subsidies have been very popular. But the opposition...
...Indeed, outside the ministry headquarters, banners proclaiming solidarity with Imam Hussein, one of Shi'ites' holiest figures, snap in the spring breeze alongside - and sometimes instead of - Iraqi flags. Most of the guards' beards are invariably cut in the close-cropped Iranian style, making them stand out in Baghdad, where beards are less common...