He had a credit card machine in his dorm room.
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Of the 25 million small businesses in the United States, only a small percentage are in retail with a brick-and-mortar presence and therefore equipped with a cash register and credit-card machine.
The credit card payment machine maker's overall revenue was helped by a 19% rise in its systems solutions group.
Walking in I pass a dour-looking lady, clipped to the machine by her affinity card, mesmerized by the spinning wheels.
Dorsey has an artist friend, a glassblower, whose business was too small to justify the monthly fees and confusing rules and rates of a traditional credit card swipe machine.
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By creating that space for wireless connectivity, it leaves the machine's other PCI card expansion slots available for other things.
After passing the card through the machine a second time, she apologized.
Probably the most useful feature is the ability for a passenger to swipe their credit card on the machine to pay for the fare: that's right, no more fumbling in your pocket for change.
Our model also came with a 52X CD-ROM drive, a 19-inch monitor, and the same outstanding Diamond graphics card as the Dell machine.
Let your smart card and the pop machine duke it out. n Only the best of breed will cut it in the age of infinite and zero.
"Nowadays you come to town, you stick your little card in the slot machine next to some blue-haired lady smoking away and try to figure out how many points you need for a buffet, " says Poster.
There is a mad race today to equip our credit cards and our cell phones to act as credit devices, allowing us to merely wave our credit or debit card or smart phone at a vending machine to have it deduct the price of the object from our bank account or add it to our credit card account.
Votes are stored in duplicate, in a removable card locked inside the voting machine and in built-in semiconductor memory.
At the ticket machine, I slid in my debit card, punched up the route and chose a day return.
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But if you're a 3D-game fan, this machine's Diamond Viper V7770 graphics card will probably be the major draw: It delivered smooth motion and solid performance in our tests using Redline Racer and Incoming.
The card was removed and, soon afterwards, a member of the public had his card "swallowed" by the machine.
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When a card was inserted into the tabulating machine, the counters would be updated accordingly, and the appropriate drawer in the sorting machine would open.
The victim's card is apparently kept by the machine and the thief steps in and offers to help but asks the person to type in their Personal Identification Number (PIN).
And to add another layer to the festivities, Chanel brought in a vending machine from which guests could insert a gift card and choose a single product, including nail polish, lipstick and eye shadow.
But Uni-Creation has taken the reverse approach here by stuffing a tabulation machine on top of a multi-format memory card reader.
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Later that morning, Williams and Calloway used the second victim's debit card to buy snacks from a vending machine, police said.
All that the user needs to do is swipe the card at the existing check-out machine and enter a four digit PIN.
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We wondered if that was because the PowerMac G3 machine there was running a Farallon Skyline wireless PC card and Mac OS9, which the card demands, while the rest of the Macs on the network run OS X.
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.
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The driver, who hasn't been identified, eventually escaped from the brothers after letting them use his bank card to withdraw money from an automated teller machine, authorities said.
One Romanian was seen placing a grey object on the cashpoint, then taking a card from his wallet, putting it into the machine and operating the buttons.
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Okay, last month I discover that someone had hacked into an ATM machine there, got my pin number from my Santander debit card and stole a few hundred bucks from my account.
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This Windows Media Center 2005-powered machine delivers that crystal clear HD video via the ATI X1600 graphics card, and AMEX even throws in a "multi-function" remote to control the action from your oh-so-comfy loveseat.
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Craig Pinckney, 34, a shipping manager at a Connecticut environmental laboratory, seriously considered trading in his Alienware Area 51 tower (complete with a cyborg-green paint job) for the new Doom 3 machine, but decided he could just upgrade his processor and video card instead.
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