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.
The Post reported that a malfunction in Mir's attitude-control system also occurred in March, causing it to list until an alternate back-up system was activated.
We can't afford -- no pun intended and for whatever many reasons -- to go back to a regulatory system that we had in place that led to the type of financial collapse that required the taxpayers to become involved.
And yet it is a miracle that Voyager 2 managed to send anything back at all, for its main radio system failed soon after launch, and its back-up system proved to be faulty.
The Department for Work and Pensions has insisted that the changes are required to bring "fairness back to the system - when in Scotland there are many thousands on housing waiting lists or living in overcrowded homes".
However, a spokeswoman for the Department for Work and Pensions insisted that changes were required to bring "fairness back to the system - when in Scotland there are many thousands on housing waiting lists or living in overcrowded homes".
Italy won back-to-back World Cups in the 1930s with a 2-3-2-3 system that emphasized defensive solidity, while the 4-2-4 alignment helped Brazil conquer the sport in the 1960s by accentuating individual skill and fitness.
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With App Remote, it is no longer necessary to go back-and-forth between the car audio system and smartphone to access a favorite tune.
Nobody thinks it will be possible to scrap managed care and go back to total reliance on the old fee-for-service system.
Having good middleware layers so you do not tightly couple your mobile app to a particular OS or to a particular back-office application and financial system, this is very critical.
Eaton will be able to attach its sensors and connect all the wiring back to a flat-panel display running the Windows CE operating system in the cab.
In an analog system, all cameras need to be wired directly back to a central recording system using analog cable (typically RG-59 or RG-6 coaxial).
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But putting a measure of stability back into our financial system -- building on what Mark said, if we want to go back to the type of bailouts that Congress approved in October of 2008, then let's keep the rules of the road the same.
At the second half of 2010, the state-owned banking system cut back on loans to developers, and tightened loans to buy second homes.
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He said it would have been wrong to go back the old dual exam system - and set out what he hoped would be gained from the revised GCSEs.
Firstly, Team Gove originally briefed the Daily Mail that they wanted to bring back O-levels causing apoplexy in their coalition partners who fought against a return to a "two tier" system.
Unfortunately, physics, economics and entrepreneurship take a back seat to our legalistic, third-party payment system.
Experts say that it is possible for this system and its back-up computers to be disabled by lightning.
This failure should lead us back to the drawing board to re-design the international monetary system, reversing the trend that prevailed during the 20th century.
Migrant workers in the Gulf states and elsewhere use this trust-based system to send billions of dollars back home, winning on both efficiency and cost.
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"Really, the safe thing to do was to tow the vessel back into port rather than re-energize the power system that was damaged by fire, " he said.
The disc was too fragile to play using a needle so the museum, along with researchers at the US Library of Congress and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, developed an alternative play-back system that used light and a 3D camera to turn its bumps and grooves into sounds.
Although the system is designed to failover to a back-up switch, the failover did not function as previously tested.
Getting back to the Mercedes-Benz S400, look beyond the hybrid propulsion system and it remains an S-Class to the core.
Under Yang, Lenovo fine-tuned a feedback system that shot detailed sales data back to Lenovo executives in Beijing almost daily.
Harare, Zimbabwe (CNN) -- Zimbabwe's education system is beginning to battle back from years of neglect and an exodus of teachers.
It was forced to wipe its entire files, and painstakingly replace them from its back-up system, after technical staff the scale of the problem.
But whether any government or mainstream politician is really prepared to step back, and let the system "heal itself" - whatever the short-term consequences - is another matter.
With Mr Palocci at his elbow, Lula might have scaled back the ruinously expensive pension system, brought sanity to labour-market regulation and simplified a fiendishly complex tax code.
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