You type in a name of a person or a business, and it pulls up their Facebook page.

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If you have forgotten your phone you will type in your phone number and a secret code (or simply speak your name) and carry on shopping.

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Here users can type in the name of a Japanese site they want to access and Shodouka's software will fetch the pages and reformat them so that the script can be read.

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Ten million was a whole lot of money in 1919 and when it attracted attention, Ponzi soon found himself with a five-year jail term and the dubious honor of adding his name to the English language for a type of fraud he hadn't even invented.

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This is thanks in part to the climate and in part to the soil, a mixture of limestone and clay and thousands of fossilized oyster shells (a wine snob could probably even name the type of oyster).

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They weren't sophisticated tie-ins, but they did provide an easy way to process a transaction over the web, including secure payment and rudimentary information about the name and type of vendor involved.

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"What we saw in this operation was a new type of cybercrime problem, called ransomware, which involves in particular the cybercriminals hijacking the name and logo of a national police, " said Rob Wainwright, director of Europol.

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