Getting big banks to come on board and consumers to turn the service into a mainstay sums up the broader challenge faced by Saunders and Visa: find ways to make the best payment options work around the world and dominate the future of electronic payments, or leave the dominating to rivals.
Day-long programs in the conference rooms will feature speeches, interviews and panel discussions about the present and future of the electronic market.
The very talented author of these articles (full disclosure, a friend) is also on this Web-stored NPR show, hinting at his future pieces concerning electronic life and the development of the prefrontal cortex.
Gracenote President Stephen White told me about how its fingerprinting technology allows the rights to the underlying tracks in these remixes to be parsed out and paid royalties, which is a huge advance for the future viability of electronic dance music.
There is the techno version of the future, filled with personal electronic implants, space travel and laser weapons.
Planned for future availability is SAP Mobile Electronic Medical Record (EMR) by Samsung (pictured above), which enables doctors and nurses in hospitals to easily access and update patient records.
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To reposition itself for the future, in quick succession, Electronic Arts acquired Playfish, a social-games developer, Chillingo, a mobile-games publisher, and Firemint, a mobile-games studio.
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"There is a huge amount of potential for this work, not only in finding out where cancer is present but also in the development of an electronic nose in the future, " said Dr Guest.
Electronic health is the future of healthcare.
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The ongoing role of the floor traders and specialists is still a matter of debate, but the planned Archipelago transaction has boosted optimism that at least the NYSE is heading into the future with a more competitive, electronic-oriented business model.
It says a clear national strategy is needed before electronic counting is used in future.
With the arrival of the new automated National Stock Exchange (NSE) in 1994, he could see that electronic trading would be the future.
One thing's for sure -- monochrome electronic ink displays are not the future of e-readers.
Companies are now vying to design the basic electronic architecture and operating systems that future network vehicles will use.
With the future of reading heading squarely in the direction of electronic devices, what to do with the old timey book form?
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But in an era where the government can access all manner of electronic signals, and store them for future use, people are no longer secure in their movements.
With his own cross-promotional opportunities providing additional motivation, Jay-Z assembled a diverse, multigenerational list of musical acts from genres including hip-hop (Odd Future, Drake, Run-DMC) to electronic (Afrojack, Calvin Harris, Skrillex) to rock (Pearl Jam, X, The Hives).
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Trip Hawkins, the former Apple strategy executive who went on to make a name for himself as a gaming industry pioneer by founding Electronic Arts and 3DO, has seen the future and believes a big part of it will center on 3-D gesturing.
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And the Treasury Department has discretion to stop sending paper checks in the future, so check recipients will want to look into the electronic options.
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Just as all electronic hardware devices are becoming networked, so the future of CES is probably online, in the very networked world which is empowering our increasingly mobile gadgets.
Major publishers like Conde Nast have already moved their titles including Vogue, Wired and Glamour, onto the iPad, but not everyone thinks that the future for both news publications and periodicals looks more efficient and electronic.
In addition, in the digital health future many technologies will be deployed behind the scenes, utilizing data from electronic medical records, passive sensors and other tools to deliver information, education and improve health across populations and across economic classes.
And if you want your money refunded (instead of spending it on future travel), you need to physically mail a printout of the supposedly electronic voucher to Philadelphia.
An entire trading floor crammed into a suitcase-size computer: That's the future of exchanges, and Nasdaq was there first, having been all-electronic--floorless, that is--since its inception in 1971.
Perhaps to remind himself how tough the future world will be, Son practices his golf game at home, in an electronic range that reproduces the most difficult competitive conditions, including wind and rain.
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Looking to the future, Mr Fischer assumes that the pace of language extinction will accelerate, driven by electronic technology.
In addition, to show how local TV broadcasters can now offer more than just linear TV channels, LG Electronics is showing its first Android-enabled smartphone prototype equipped with Mobile Digital TV (MDTV) reception, which offers conditional access functionality for future subscription broadcasts and the capability of receiving "non-real time" data such as electronic coupons.
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It sounds absurd, but the adoption of electronic health records and Health Information Exchanges, could enable this level of access in the future.
At the E-G8 meeting, the E meaning electronic, French president Nicolas Sarkozy called on internet CEOs to give some advice on the future of the web.
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Looking into the future in terms of the greening of Hollywood, the use of petroleum specifically plastics for electronic devices, for example is going to be an issue.
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