Attire is the most common wild card in same-sex weddings, so it's important to find out what they're wearing, she said.
Perhaps not so surprising is that credit card fraud is more common than debit card fraud in most of the 17 countries.
"Buying products over the Internet with a credit card has become a common occurrence, but viewing the credit card bill itself and submitting a payment to settle it electronically is still considered a novelty, " Albert Pang, research manager for IDC's eCommerce Software program, said in a statement.
The card isn't the same as a modern-day baseball card, which became common in the 1880s.
One of the most common marketing ploys of the credit card industry is to offer 0% interest on balance transfers.
Under the lottery program, visas are made available to applicants from countries with low rates of immigration to the U.S. Lottery winners have a chance at moving to the U.S. without a family member or an employer as a sponsor, the most common routes to obtaining a green card.
In the past we've seen a tongue-based computer interface or two, the BrainPort sight-via-papillae solution, and this week, at the American Chemical Society's annual meeting, researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign introduced a sensor about the size of a business card that detects and identifies fourteen common sweeteners -- including Splenda, Sugar in the Raw, and Sweet'n'Low.
ENGADGET: Electronic tongue tastes, identifies sweeteners so you don't have to
One of the most common styles of attack on small businesses targets credit-card information that a hacker can sell or use to make fraudulent purchases.
But most card issuers agree that Internet fraud is far more common than fraud in the physical world.
This is the most common design, but we still test some applications that encrypt the card number on the mobile device.
The most common type of counterfeiting is called skimming, where the data on a card's magnetic stripe is electronically copied and used to make an illegal copy of a genuine card.
As the card-carrying centrist in the group, I try to find common ground.
From child labor laws to the Clean Air Act to our most recent strictures against hidden fees and penalties by credit card companies, we have, from time to time, embraced common sense rules of the road that strengthen our country without unduly interfering with the pursuit of progress and the growth of our economy.
This PIN-pad scheme is in some ways just a variation on fairly common ATM skimming hardware techniques, which attach to the machines and invisibly siphon off credit card data.
Testing the cards on an Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6700-powered machine with 2GB of RAM, the single R600 card bested the solo 8800 GTX in basically every benchmark they tried, with common applications seeing minimal gains, but games saw between ten-percent (Half-Life 2: Lost Coast) and 42-percent (1701 A.D.) hikes.
ENGADGET: ATI R600 graphics card benchmarked, cruises by NVIDIA's GeForce 8800 GTX
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