Later, the Ryabushinskys would import machinery from Manchester, send their sons to study abroad, enter the mortgage-banking business.

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But high-profile victims are often targeted by phishing, where hackers send deceptive e-mails that encourage victims to enter personal information.

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Rather than visiting a kiosk to rent a bike, you'll be able to use a smartphone app to locate some available wheels, with position information broadcast by a built-in GPS. Once you find a bike you want to rent, the system will send an unlock code to your handset, which you'll enter into a handlebar-mounted PIN pad.

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For starters, if you search for a restaurant on your phone, you can send it to your navigator so that you don't have to enter the address manually (and we all know how annoying that is).

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These spammers send e-mails directing users to a particular search engine where they are told to enter specific key words.

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Users send an invite by email or text message, and the invitee taps a button to enter a browser chat, which opens a browser-based chat room on their phone.

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They can then enter the recipient or recipients, compose a short message, adjust security settings and send the file.

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Enter universal preschool: it would offer American working parents a high-quality, affordable place to send their children when they head to work.

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