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...little RFID (short for radio-frequency identification) wands are proving far more popular and practical than the much promoted use of cell phones to shop on the Net. Only 6% of all mobile-phone owners use theirs to purchase stock, transmit payments, make travel arrangements or buy small items, according to the Personal Communications Industry Association. More Americans may soon be able to use their cell phones in conjunction with the RFID tags. The key, says Nokia m-commerce expert Tom Zalewski, will be enabling retailers to reach out to phone users with short messages when they are within...
...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...
...vaccinate 30-50 percent, the group that doesn’t get vaccinated is protected by the group that gets vaccinated,” Coley said, explaining that if more students are vaccinated, there are fewer students who can transmit the flu to others...
...Adviser Condoleezza Rice requested that television news executives consider the appropriateness of airing uncensored versions of videos released by Osama bin Laden’s al Queda organization. Rice argued that the propaganda effects of the videos might incite further violence against the United States, and that they might transmit coded messages to al Queda operatives still in this country...
...surroundings into his work, using automobile paint to accentuate his sculptures. In 1980 he fled to the peace and quiet of Curitiba, a smaller city in the interior of the country. There he continues to pursue his lifelong quest to merge his birth culture with his ancestral one. "I transmit the calmness and order of my Asian upbringing," he says. But he also keeps faith with his South American side: "Art must transmit joy and energy...