Traditionally, firms pay for new software initially with large licence fees, and then spend more money and time trying to install the new applications on their computers and training employees to use the new features.

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They're intended for network connectivity and to service as physical licence keys for software.

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In addition, the Committee said the OFT had been slow to introduce postcode-matching software to improve its checking of credit licence holders.

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