That's when he came up with the idea of selling stylish digital cards.
The digital cards include envelope liners, glossy envelope seals and even stamps, allowing for customization while reflecting the characteristics of traditional stationery.
One-third of American adults plan on sending an e-card this Valentine's Day, according to a recent study by the mobile testing company SOASTA. Digital cards are most popular with men between 35 and 44, and spouses were the most common recipients.
Digital movie cards are one of many ways VUDU is introducing Walmart customers to digital content.
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Games will be made available on Secure Digital memory cards, and the Zodiac will have two SD slots.
Some pose as YouTube links others claim to be looking for testers of software packages or digital greetings cards.
It will have two slots for Secure Digital memory cards, which will let you really max out storage capacity, or use cards with content.
We noted in May the availability of Panasonic 's SV-AV10--a small and sleek MP3 player and camcorder in one which stores data on tiny Secure Digital memory cards that certainly don't hold as much as a 20-gigabyte hard drive.
Study cards, a digital version of the 3-by-5 index cards you used to spend hours making by hand, are a huge timesaver.
Schmidt became a fan of CardMunch, a two-year-old iPhone app that turns photos of business cards into digital contacts.
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He also uses Google 's Picasa2 and Microsoft 's Picture It to design his own greeting cards from digital photos.
Scads of companies are using postage stamp-sized flash memory cards in digital cameras, camcorders, MP3 audio players and cell phones.
Citibank customers with MasterCards will be able to hook a digital version of their cards to the Google Wallet app.
MasterPass brings together all of the ways consumers pay for things, from traditional plastic cards to digital wallets, and gives them the ability to make a payment from wherever they are with one simple experience.
He also uses Google 's (nasdaq: GOOG - news - people ) Picasa2 and Microsoft 's (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) Picture It to design his own greeting cards from digital photos.
You'll be able to pick up gift credit for the likes of Jamba Juice, Olive Garden, Sephora and Target, plucking what you'd like from the "gift cards and digital" category inside the existing Gifts tab, and stating an amount and the name of the lucky gift-getter.
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The super-compact and ultra-lightweight PENTAX Q10, barely larger than a deck of cards, offers digital-SLR-quality photography for photographers of all levels.
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While Sherlock Holmes followed footprints, Jonathan Grave uses mobile phone technology, GPS, and the digital trails left by credit cards to track his targets.
There was no live-streaming of events, no flurry of Twitter chatter back-channeling every quotable remark, and the exchange of physical business cards, not digital ones, reigned supreme.
Among the cool new features, iPhone 5 will come with a new Maps app with Siri-powered turn-by-turn directions and a Passport app that will store digital versions of your affinity cards, boarding passes, tickets, coupons and, eventually credit and debit cards, so you can get on a plane or into a stadium or pay for a Starbucks coffee by flashing a bar code on the phone.
MP3 digital music players hadn't yet hit the market to any real extent, and removable flash memory cards were limited to use in digital cameras.
Its flash cards are ubiquitous in digital cameras and its memory chips are found in notebook and netbook computers, smartphones and digital music players.
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Search warrants issued at the defendants' addresses uncovered evidence from mobile telephones and SIM cards, computers and digital media, travel documentation, passports and quantities of cash, the court heard.
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To the public, NAND-type flash memory is most familiar in the form of memory cards or sticks used in digital cameras or portable music players.
Before the introduction of magnetic tape, digital storage for early computers used punched cards, paper tape as well as more exotic technologies such as mercury delay lines and the phosphors on cathode ray tubes.
While the Palm does not have any slots for media cards, the Clie supports MemoryStick which initially provides a convenient way to expand memory and will, in the future, also act as a connector for a range of yet-to-be-released hardware cards, such as a digital still camera model.
In its upcoming Vista operating system consumers can create "information cards" that serve as encrypted digital identifiers.
Applications include contactless transactions such as payment and transit ticketing, keys, data transfers including electronic business cards, and access to online digital content.
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That security could one day make SD cards as common a medium for distributing digital content as the compact disc is today.
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