Send a romantic e-card, for instance, and someone will try to sell you flowers.
Plus there is a chance to hear some of Anne's ultimate put-downs and send a Weakest Link e-card or download wallpaper for your PC desktop.
People were far less likely to send an e-card to their boyfriends or girlfriends, perhaps because they were too busy buying them chocolate bacon cookies and roses.
As crisp as the music sounded, the visuals occasionally felt like visions of the future from the late seventies, or early digital art you might find in an e-card from your mom.
One-third of American adults plan on sending an e-card this Valentine's Day, according to a recent study by the mobile testing company SOASTA. Digital cards are most popular with men between 35 and 44, and spouses were the most common recipients.
Ample expansion is available with two open PCI-E x1 slots for adding a sound, graphics or RAID card and an open PCI-E x16 slot for a video card.
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Mobile users can also be duped through so-called "smishing" -- a combination of the words SMS and phishing -- where a user receives a text message asking for personal information like a credit card number, e-mail address or social security number.
Powerful interests -- Microsoft, credit card concerns, banks -- are betting billions that zapping around e-cash will be as commonplace as sticking a card in an ATM.
He says that 20% of the people who get that card send him an e-mail.
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The headline financial impact from the CARD Act, Reg E, and the Durbin amendment have amounted to billions of dollars in reduced fee revenue at each of the large banks.
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In recent years, passing on sensitive data points like e-mail addresses and credit card codes to marketing partners has also been a frequent source of corporate data breaches--about 40% of all breach incidents were a result of a third party's handling of data, according to another Ponemon study, released in November 2007.
Does not apply to offences categorised as improper conduct, i.e. not punishable by a red card.
Sony Reader customers can use the company's Library Finder software and check out e-books with a valid library card.
Moreover, Ready believes that a new generation of payments companies will lead m-commerce just as PayPal and three others took over e-commerce payments from traditional credit card payment processors.
Chuck Robel, one of Silicon Valley's leading accountants, has five contact telephone numbers and an e-mail address on his business card to make sure that his clients can get hold of him.
Still, that is cold comfort for the backers of products such as the iCache Geode, a strange and ambitious iPhone contraption combining NFC and e-paper with a reprogrammable credit card that was floated last April.
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It is also confronting the grim reality that, in a world filled with e-mail and cell phones, greeting card sales are flat.
Or a signed signature card (if you have an e-book or audio-book)?
We, or rather the electronic devices we employ, are data pack rats, accumulating e-mails, Web pages, credit card swipes, phone messages, stock trades, memos, address books and radiology scans.
His two-year-old Seattle startup makes software that tracks gift-card balances in real time and blasts e-mails about looming expirations.
According to the BKM (Interbank Card Center) data, the Turkish e-commerce market reached a whopping 25 billion in 2012.
Although fast-growing, the regional e-commerce market is hampered by low credit-card use and poor postal services.
As an alternative to a biometric card, senators may move to strengthen the E-Verify system by, for example, requiring new hires to answer questions about previous addresses or other details, a person familiar with the Senate group's thinking said.
At Amazon.com, it takes eight clicks--along with entering an e-mail address, password, physical address and credit card number--to buy the latest Modest Mouse CD.
As phones and PDAs become transaction terminals and repositories for valuable information - credit card numbers, personal IDs, digital money, e-keys, bank passwords, even company secrets - much more will be at stake.
At Amazon.com (nasdaq: AMZN - news - people ), it takes eight clicks--along with entering an e-mail address, password, physical address and credit card number--to buy the latest Modest Mouse CD.
Sony continues to offer its popular and critically-acclaimed public library lending feature by offering patrons with a valid library card the ability to easily and conveniently borrow free e-books wirelessly from over 15, 000 public libraries in the US via an intuitive, simple-to-use dedicated icon on the device.
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Moments later, as she's pulling out a credit card at the register, her iPhone announces an incoming e-mail.
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