But the opportunity to identify fraud reaches far beyond this virtual point of sale.
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Trainees see and hear the virtual world from their own point of view, whether peering out from behind a wall or approaching the scene in a helicopter.
Tesco had its share of trials and tribulations as it built up its web fulfillment operations to the point where the virtual store idea could actually be made to work.
In the last few years our private lives have been inundated with junk mail and our mailboxes real and virtual are filled to the tipping point with brand magazines and offers.
The ambition was to develop centres to become a 'virtual Wales' offering, a focal point for international trade, inward investment and tourism.
While Apple maintained the top spot for the ninth time in a row through US customers' happiness with the hardware design and ease of use, most of its major competitors made big strides in reliability, speed and camera quality in the past half-year -- to the point where there was a virtual dead heat for second place between HTC, Motorola, Nokia and Samsung.
The result: a virtual supercomputer capable of crunching 6 trillion floating point operations per second, or 6 teraflops, equivalent to one of the ten most powerful computers in the world.
It's inevitable at this point: After having experienced a variety of virtual reality -- from gaming to cinematic -- whenever I'm about to enter into a new demo, my anxiety spikes.
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This virtual parenting is fine, experts say, but just to a point.
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This lends further support to a point I wrote about earlier, that the future of virtual goods is not on Facebook, but across the Web and other online devices.
One good point of the College is that when you have a virtual popular vote tie, which we have had several times in the past, it determines a winner so the governance of the nation can go forward without undue delay.
Hirano says sales of add-on game content or in-game virtual goods will help companies to make up for the initial lower price point.
Of course, at that point you'll see one another's pictures, a virtual way of putting into practice Don Crowther's No. 1 piece of advice, that you share your photograph.
But before my neighbors and my wife call their respective lawyers, I should point out that the situation I'm describing is a slice of virtual life from the world's No. 1 PC game, The Sims, by virtuoso designer Will Wright.
Without reeling off any more facts and acquisition figures, the key point to register is that wherever you look, China is linking physical assets to virtual trades, not just to feed gas market liquidity, but to rebalance WTI and Brent for oil.
Yeah, it doesn't emulate a full surround sound system altogether that well -- the clue's in the "virtual" -- but it looks pretty good and is definitely compact, which is sort of the point with these kinds of devices.
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