The terminal's request was then sent to CrossCheck's main processing center through a dialup server.

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As a crosscheck, the economists also used the 2005 Urban Labour Survey of five big cities.

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' And I don't say anything, and she says, 'I'll be back after I've had a chance to crosscheck your serial numbers.

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And they also tried to crosscheck the information with the data that was provided in hundreds of thousands of captured Iraqi documents.

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Demonstrated by CrossCheck, a check authorization company, and Personal Solutions, the co-leaders of IrFM, the transaction occurred in mid-July at the quarterly IrDA meeting.

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The companies used an unspecified infrared-equipped Palm device and a Toshiba Libretto, which beamed requests for check authorizations to a point-of-sale terminal, in this case a VeriFone Tranz 330 that was retrofitted with an infrared device from ACTiSYS and a custom cable from CrossCheck.

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