For example, imagine all the point of sale terminals at all the 8, 500 Wal-Mart Stores (WMT) around the world as they process customers who are waiting to pay for their goods.
But, tomorrow there will be mobile payment wristbands you can wave across vendor terminals to buy all sorts of things, maybe even a get-out-of-jail-free card.
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"Tim Hortons invested in new payment terminals for nearly all of our Canadian restaurants to allow contactless and mobile payments, " said David Clanachan, Chief Operating Officer, Tim Hortons.
"Effective October 7, American will operate all JFK flights from the AA terminals with AA airplanes, " said Chairman Bob Baker in a statement to TWA employees.
Beginning with 250 stores in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, this summer 7-Eleven will offer bill payment, payroll check cashing, money wiring and ticket purchasing for entertainment events and travel--all on the souped-up terminals.
But Web terminals and tablets, like almost all of the models ViewSonic is bringing to market, will be little more than 7% of all those units.
At their own terminals, teachers can monitor the work of all the students, or select a particular work-in-progress for high-definition video projection onto a large screen.
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Isis probably realized all of the headaches involved with managing financial transactions and getting terminals installed in stores, said Woo, from MasterCard.
The failure to complete that work meant the Italian central bank ordered Deutsche Bank Italia, which handles all bank card payments on Vatican territory, to deactivate its terminals on 1 January.
In Hong Kong, the city's government Friday said it would increase body temperature checks of all arriving passengers at immigration control checkpoints, including those at airport and ferry terminals, as a precautionary measure against the spread of H7N9.
And still, the evacuation operation is going on, and at the scene right there in front of the terminal now, police have blocked all entrances and trying to keep people away from the scene, and also from the passenger terminals.
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