For example, I checked-in to a local pub during my last trip to Boston.
This can be people who have checked-in there using Facebook Places or live there or went to college there.
People can also ask for a friend to write a review if they see that a friend has checked-in to a restaurant.
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But frequent business travelers always try to hold on to their travel gear for a simple reason -- the inexcusably long time it takes for checked-in luggage to make it to baggage-claim carousels.
People will not have to actively whip out their phones and scroll the app to find the place they want to check-in, but could passively find a business, through the app knowing that you checked-in there before, for example.
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The idea is that when someone is looking at Ness for a restaurant and chooses one, they can see which of their friends have been checked-in there or rated that business and send a message asking what to order there.
Recently, when I checked-in at a New York City hotel, the manager was at the reception desk and I told him (I already knew his name through my Web explorations) the reason why I had made reservations was based on several previous hotel guests positive comments on the Traveladvisor Internet site.
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Even Jennifer Lawrence, who won an Oscar for Best Actress for her turn in "Silver Linings Playbook" and was name-checked in the boob song, found the humor in it.
When a print or pattern overwhelms even the most famous of faces (take Kristen Stewart's recent appearance in a large-checked Louis Vuitton jumpsuit, or Kirsten Dunst in a checkered floor-length gown), it should give you pause.
Trump has even made false statements that could've been fact-checked in less than a minute on Google.
Strummer, who name-checked Granada in The Clash's London Calling album track Spanish Bombs, died in 2002.
When it comes to production, any material that comes in, as soon as it is made or arrives, is verified or checked in-house.
This is because their promises and the figures they bandy about are fact-checked in real time , by journalists and experts, ensuring a simultaneous and enlightened subtitle service that underlines the politicians' rolling spiel.
Instead, the tech mafia name-checked In Re: Facebook Privacy Litigation, a class action lawsuit filed by Facebook users alleging that the social network had violated a federal privacy law by leaking information about users to advertisers ( ultimately dismissed).
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Through Partners in Health, this approach successfully checked multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis in Peru.
He used a self check-in kiosk to board the flight at Heathrow and was allowed through when the document was checked in the bag-drop area.
The Knicks were down 13-3 and in the midst of a 1-for-13 shooting start when Stoudemire checked in.
He said he had bought the London home in 1991, before becoming an MP and had his tax declaration checked when he sold it in 2006 - he said HMRC had confirmed there was no liability for CGT.
While the International Air Transport Administration also considers compressed gas cylinders hazardous in general, the body approves of the avalanche-specific canisters for either checked or carry-on luggage, thereby making the US the only country in the world to prohibit them. (Passengers outside the US are, however, required to inform the airline before their flight that they will be transporting the system).
The March consumer confidence reading, meanwhile, checked in at a four-month low, while the housing market continues to slump.
Under TSA rules, guns are allowed in checked baggage in locked, hard-sided containers.
CNN: Airport screeners discover more than 1,500 guns in 2012
Maybe you watched a movie, logged on to in-flight wi-fi and cleaned up your email box, checked in on Facebook or updated your blog.
An e-mail could alert a consumer who didn't apply for a new card that Sears Roebuck (nyse: S - news - people ) or Citigroup (nyse: C - news - people ) checked his credit in connection with a new card application, a possible sign of identity theft.
And they performed a "WIGGLE" test. (I know you will find this hard to believe, but that is NOT an acronym for Wire Integration Gross Gyration Looseness Exam -- it's just a plain old wiggle test.) In any case, the wires all checked out -- and on went the flow toward a January 19 launch.
But the tourists were checked to 101-8 following some sharp work in the field by the home side.
Earlier this month, Ms Tenemeri, wrapped in a traditional red-checked blanket known as a shuka, joined 1, 000 people, mostly women, under thorny acacia trees at Olorien village to protest at the plans.
He dropped in on a broadcast booth to pepper producers with questions about which countries would be receiving the night's pay-per-view event, and then checked in with the commentator, Joe Rogan of NBC's Fear Factor, to learn more about the matchups.
The luggage locator system delivers city-specific information on the whereabouts of checked baggage in real time.
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According the company, the luggage locator system delivers city-specific information on the whereabouts of checked baggage in real time.
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