Perhaps because 2013 is shaping up to be a brutal one for anyone introducing a new mobile operating system.

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To help with this, the government is introducing a new Public Nursing Insurance system, scheduled to go into effect in two years' time, to train more home helpers and provide other services.

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He assured peers the government was introducing the new system on a gradual basis, which he said was in itself a form of trial.

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Square fundamentally changed its still-new model of transactions by introducing a mobile payments system that centers on the consumer-merchant relationship rather than the payment itself.

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But that also means introducing real rewards (see also Level Up, a new transaction system where consumer cash bonuses are integral to shopping).

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As previously mentioned, developers will be welcomed to the fold this year with APIs and a HTML5 SDK in the works for introducing new apps for the system.

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