He worked with the Nevada State Athletic Commission to get UFC sanctioned in Nevada after adopting some rules: There would be weight classes, judges, point systems and a limited number of rounds.
Google is working with VeriFone, Hypercom, Ingenico, VIVOTech and others to develop these next generation point of sale systems.
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Google is also working with point of sale systems companies and top retail brands to create a new SingleTap shopping experience.
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We may be reaching a point where the systems behind an identity card are becoming more important than the token itself.
The Stand is designed to take on older point of sale systems, which Dorsey said are prone to breaking and also are, well, ugly.
If retailers like Target operated without regard to interoperability and focused on one enabling technology, they would only have implemented point of sale systems that were proprietary to each individual store.
At the event, Google, Citi, MasterCard, First Data and Sprint introduced Google Wallet and invited additional issuing banks, payment networks, mobile carriers, handset manufacturers, point of sale systems companies and merchants to join the initiative.
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Although manufacturers and experts are careful to point out that these systems can't undo every fool-hearty driving maneuver, they can, at least, prevent a slight misjudgement from becoming an automatic disaster.
That involves lots of data from different systems, which is where a point solution fails because it requires that you build duplicate systems or undertake a massive integration project.
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The pilot program will help test the efficacy of the Groupon model with large retailers, for whom multistore environments and easy integration with existing point-of-sale systems are big issues.
The entire point of seniority-based systems like the ones that many teachers unions have negotiated is to protect long-serving teachers from losing their jobs when the budget gets tight.
Otellini has outlined plans to put slimmed-down versions of Intel's x86 processor into everything from cheap, Web-friendly gizmos to point-of-sale systems and flat-screen televisions (see "Intel Vows To Rise Again").
The X PRIZE Foundation and Qualcomm seeks to achieve this by combining advancements in expert systems and medical point of care data such as wireless sensors, advancements in medical imaging and microfluidics.
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"Restoring farmers' confidence will depend on the agency's improving its business processes and IT systems to the point where it can process claims efficiently and promptly and tell farmers when they are likely to be paid, " he said.
It is not uncommon for a retailer to have a set of systems for retail point-of-sale, another for e-commerce and yet another for the call center, with information entered and stored differently and in different formats in each case.
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They might point out that email-compatible systems like PGP provide a much better proof of identity than an IM handle.
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Case in point: today, Christie Digital Systems introduced two new 4K projectors capable of 60 fps -- a "world's first, " according to the manufacturer.
This Framework takes national knowledge of general education systems as a starting point and brings in international knowledge to enrich local knowledge as necessary.
This co-produced knowledge that derives from synergies between both systems of knowledge may point the way forward to promising and productive ways to address the complexities of climate change adaptation.
The notion that free code should beget more free code is central to the open-source movement, but it's a sticky point to companies, like Cisco Systems, that make a living off of intellectual property.
With embedded mobeam technology, the Galaxy S4 will be able to engage in mobile commerce at millions of locations without requiring retailers to make changes to their existing point of sale (POS) systems or technologies.
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Like the 1986 NASA disaster, investigations of the BP spill are starting to point toward complex and sophisticated technical systems that failed because of overlooked problems, which, in turn, exacerbated the situation in unanticipated ways.
"The complexity of IT systems is growing at a tremendous rate, to a point where it's becoming very difficult for administrators to manage their systems, " says Jeff Kephart , autonomic computing manager at IBM Research.
Through this ability to exit we then get competition between tax systems and this was the point of it all along.
But scientists point to other technology developed from military systems, such as GPS satellite navigation, which has come down in price and is now increasingly popular.
In contrast to UPS, Landstar integrates a network of third party freight movers and systems to get parcels from point A to point B more quickly and hopefully cheaper than its competitors.
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This last point is the critical difference between the two systems.
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