When users enlarged content on previous mobile terminals, the display needed to be scrolled to see the content fully.
"Toggle DDR provides a faster interface than conventional NAND using an asynchronous design, delivering the benefits of high-speed data transfer to a wider market, such as for solid state drive (SSD) applications including enterprise storage, mobile phones, multimedia terminals and consumer products, " said Masaki Momodomi, Technical Executive, Memory product, Toshiba Corporation.
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Fitted with a card reader, tablets can serve as mobile point-of-sale terminals.
For a bank, those channels could include automated teller machines (ATMs), bank teller terminals, Web pages, mobile apps, point-of-sale machines in retail, human-staffed call centers, and automated call systems.
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But, tomorrow there will be mobile payment wristbands you can wave across vendor terminals to buy all sorts of things, maybe even a get-out-of-jail-free card.
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Air Canada used mobile to replace silos of information with a single source that looks the same, and provides the same information, across its gate agent terminals, kiosks, Web site and mobile devices.
Mr Kusnetzky predicted that sales of information appliances - from stripped down terminals used primarily to access to the internet, to smart mobile phones and handheld computers such as the Palm Pilot - would outpace PC sales by 2004.
"Tim Hortons invested in new payment terminals for nearly all of our Canadian restaurants to allow contactless and mobile payments, " said David Clanachan, Chief Operating Officer, Tim Hortons.
Today's announcement extends this functionality to iPhone and has the potential to accelerate the adoption of mobile contactless payments globally, especially in geographies where merchants have already upgraded payment terminals to accept contactless transactions.
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We are looking for ways to expand mobile phone banking and to use local merchants to accept deposits through point-of-sale terminals.
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The chips also let phones talk directly to card-swipe terminals in stores, which has set off a race to organize and control the new world of mobile payments.
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