The killers are the high-speed back-end connection and the back-end system that validates users and provides for billing.

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Batter notes that Technicolor developed the back-end system used by LoveFilm, a European video service which is now owned by Amazon.com.

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Bling Nation is looking to change that with its service, which pairs RFID-enabled stickers with a back-end system that charges purchases to credit cards (via PayPal) and sends text-message receipts to cellphones.

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It turned out that the programmer who had built the link between the front-end sales system and the back-end inventory system had somehow managed to duplicate a line of code.

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And then VJ paints a picture of a whole back-end, cloud-based system that supports his vision of the coming role imaging and printing will play.

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He yanked 5, 000 Transmedia processing machines out of restaurants and combined Dining's classier front-end product with Transmedia's superior back-office system that credited savings on monthly charge-card accounts.

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We got back every dime we used to rescue the financial system, but we also passed a historic law to end taxpayer-funded Wall Street bailouts for good.

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