But if American firms are in difficulty, their imitators in Europe, where many patients get medicines free at the point of service and strict regulations govern drug sales and advertising, will struggle even more.
In March, the company launched Square Register, an iPad-based point of sale service for accepting payments and tracking inventory.
Google Wallet is built to work with the fast growing MasterCard PayPass network-a merchant point of sale service that enables consumers to tap to pay.
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Some of these nimbler airlines specialize in point-to-point service, instead of the hub-and-spoke system used by the legacy carriers.
The study, which looked at 385 metropolitan statistical areas, said nearly two in five metropolitan areas had one insurance company with a combined market share of 50 percent or more among health maintenance organization (HMO), point-of-service (POS) and preferred provider organization (PPO) plans.
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He also criticised the BBC for coming at every question from a pro-public service point of view, and not doing enough to stand up for the interests of taxpayers.
From our point of view, it's more of a service than just a game.
The OITG provides a single point of contact for assistance and service.
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Start an email campaign, make a point of stopping by the customer service desk after check out, and get your friends and neighbors to do the same.
Other offline retailers are following suit, implementing mobile point of sale devices to improve customer service.
An hour spent in service of your point will feel highly valuable to you.
It is exciting to see more CEOs promoting world class customer service as a point of differentiation for their businesses.
Getting to that point means providing very high levels of customer service so that existing customers will tell their colleagues about the service.
The health minister said the primary duty in the bill was to promote a comprehensive health service free at the point of use and warned peers against detracting from that.
Well we want to reassure people that we are not and never have wanted to privatise the NHS. We believe in the NHS as a public service free at the point of use.
"BAA provides a free service up to the point of check-in when the airlines take over and they provide assistance from the check-in to the aircraft", a BAA spokeswoman told BBC News Online.
So what's the point of this report if not to get those service chiefs on board?
Mr Wahid has already made a point of removing other politically inclined generals from active service.
From our point of view, Internet security is a fundamental service that every user must have, just like searching, e-mailing, instant-messaging, etc.
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What we have come to expect from a national health service, free at the point of delivery, he argued, just can't be delivered.
Plaid Health Spokesperson Elin Jones used her contribution to point to the fact that the programme of hospital service reconfiguration was not clearly outlined in the Welsh Labour party's manifesto.
Ministers said the health service must remain free at the point of use.
The Ohio native does speak Russian, having focused most of his military service (from West Point graduation in 1973 until 1993) on the Soviet Union.
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"All signs point to this being the same type of denial of service problem that's being experienced by other sites, " according to Martha Papalia, spokeswoman for Ziff-Davis.
But they also point out that some of the biggest problems with the service are beyond their control, like the placement of cellular towers and the fact that so many users are all vying for the same service.
But take 1963, the year that marked the end of national service and the rise of the Beatles, and you have an interesting cut-off point for comparison.
But consumers can opt in or out of the service, and this anyway misses the point.
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Hurricane Irene severed electrical service to most of coastal Connecticut at some point early Sunday morning.
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