The Veterans Affairs Department, perhaps the largest federal agency to make a big push for mobile devices, has settled on security at the application layer, a course that the largest potential federal buyer, the Defense Department, is unlikely to copy.

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There is clearly a possible application here for SMEs, especially as economies of scale push the price down as more cards are ordered.

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Until then, his team are offering a hybrid application so that Chorus can also be downloaded natively onto iOS and Android and offer push notifcations.

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Jewish people in Bury have submitted a planning application to create an "eruv" zone that will permit them to carry and push on the Sabbath.

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