Sempra Energy is building new liquefied natural gas terminals in Louisiana and off the coast of Baja, Calif.

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Both of these are aiming for true mobility, retaining the hand-off circuitry and trying to make terminals as small as possible. (They are currently about the size of a videotape, but both firms claim that cards which can fit inside a laptop are coming soon.) In the process, however, they have sacrificed telephony and focused solely on data-only systems.

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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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