VeriFone would roll out more so-called contact-less devices, or readers that enable consumers to pay with a wave or tap of a credit or debit card.
Visa and several large banks are testing mobile-payment programs that allow consumers to make contact-less payments with an existing smartphone equipped with a special chip card and antenna.
While most of the financial activity that now takes place on smartphones involves people engaging in transactions with their bank, the credit-card industry has spent millions of dollars to issue new plastic with the contact-less chip that speeds the check-out process.
"Because it's contact-less there's a perception people can grab it from thin air, but it's actually a more sophisticated technology than credit cards with a magnetic stripe, making it more difficult to steal a consumer's payment information, " said Nick Holland, a mobile-transactions analyst at Yankee Group.
And those players, he said, would be directed to other sports with less contact and fewer collisions.
What I learned from this is that during those difficult times, I absolutely had less contact with her.
And then for the last two years, we were consolidating these bases into much larger ones and actually had less and less contact with the people.
"In the presence of a mobile device, there is less eye contact, " lead author Shalini Misra observed.
It increases with more contact with nature and less introspection, according to Nancy Etcoff , an evolutionary psychologist at Harvard.
If the contact takes place with less than five minutes to play in the quarter, the offender is benched for the following quarter as well.
The Leicestershire study also found that, as nursing has become more high-tech, there is less physical contact with patients, so nurses are using massage to compensate and to demonstrate care for patients.
Compared to men, women are equally likely to see entrepreneurship as attractive, yet they lack positive attitudes about their own personal capacities or inclinations for starting businesses, and they have less personal contact with entrepreneurs.
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Absorption through the skin would be even less concerning, and contact from the powdery subtance on the skin would likely lead to much less damage overall.
These services like Constant Contact and MailChimp cost much less.
They also spend much less time making eye contact, at least when a person without power is talking.
Nasa ground controllers have re-established contact with the International Space Station less than three hours after a computer failure briefly interrupted communication.
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Some thought that this was especially a problem for younger children, who were less able to maintain contact for themselves and had to rely more on what was arranged for them by carers and social workers.
For instance, a slowdown in the auto sector presumably means less silver demand for electrical contact points.
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He must be quick: flies usually bite within 10 seconds of skin contact and despite their tiny size - less than a millimetre - they are ferocious.
Dr. James Steinberg, medical director at Emory University's Crawford Long Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia, said that environment plays a role in the spread of MRSA but that it's less a factor than coming into contact with a person's skin.
So the capacity for misunderstanding is amplified when nationalities that are less familiar with each other come into contact.
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In reality, though, living a successful and fulfilling retirement may be less about money and more about keeping in contact with friends, staying healthy, and mentally sharp.
If the drama of first contact was denied the late-arriving Pilgrims, it is even less available to travelers today.
That means you're probably less socially isolated, and more likely to come into contact with a lot of people, than someone randomly selected.
Fields cookies is like saying: A study published in the New England Journal of Medicine has shown that people who limit their athletic activities to curling and badminton are less likely to require knee operations than people who play contact sports.
Or it can rely on existing evidence and reclassify the devices to a less restrictive category that includes ultrasound machines, motorized wheelchairs, and contact-lens solution.
The closing minutes might have been less straightforward for Spurs had substitute Conor Sammon not failed to make contact with a Ronnie Stam cross from the right when in front of goal inside the six-yard box.
Finally, contact information was only available when readily findable and scrapeable from the blog or website, which seemed to be less than half the time.
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