Steven Burt, G24's chief financial officer, talks of light-bulb-powered TV remote controls, smoke detectors and computer keyboards. (A non-removable internal battery would store charge for use when the lights are off.) The company already offers prototypes of bags and jackets with photosensitive panels woven in, designed to charge digital cameras and mobile phones, and a hotel in Las Vegas is using G24's products to run its electric window-blinds.
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Under such a system, for example, a store owner could give a discount to someone paying with an American Express credit card, charge extra for use of a Visa charge card and leave the price unaltered for a Visa credit card.
Moves to charge for the use of Guernsey's radio spectrum could result in customers paying more, phone companies have warned.
The feeds are also difficult to make money from, and Google never tried to place ads on Reader or charge for its use.
IR You say that the way to reduce road traffic is to charge for the use of roads according to the costs drivers impose on society.
The measure approved by the Senate Environmental Committee requires retailers to give customers a 5-cent rebate for each reusable shopping bag they use and charge them 5 cents for each single-use bag they take.
It also changes how often a company can charge the customer for use of a product.
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Connected Apple devices also charge automatically for later use when the receiver is powered on.
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Pew also noted that African-Americans and Hispanics are leading the charge for the growth use of nonvoice mobile data functions.
The white paper promised new powers to local authorities to charge motorists for the use of roads and workplace parking.
The investment company Alliance Trust is increasing its annual management charge for customers who use it to open a stocks and shares Isa.
The Northern Ireland Executive will bring forward legislation later this year to introduce a 5p charge for single-use carrier bags in April 2013.
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Delegates at the conference, partly organised by the Keep Britain Tidy group and the British Toilet Association, are debating whether authorities could charge more for the use of public conveniences.
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The white paper's approach to this dilemma is likely to involve giving local authorities the power to charge motorists for the use of roads, and to tax private parking spaces for businesses.
Charge some optional admission, like we charge for museums, and use the proceeds to pay off claimants to the orphaned works.
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But the owner of the disused quarry where it is staged wants to charge a land use fee for the first time in its 15 year history.
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Aircell can afford to charge less for mobile devices because they use less bandwidth than laptops, says Weigman.
He said the problem was a lack of competition, which meant that many state-owned airports in Europe "still think they have a God-given right to charge" high prices for airlines to use their facilities.
You could place your copyrights or patents into a company in, say, Bermuda, where there is no corporate income tax at all, then charge the company in Ireland for the use of those copyrights and or patents.
Mr Lavery said he believed there would be a cost for the use of RAF helicopters but there would be no charge for the Irish Army Air Corps aircraft.
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V, has circulated a letter agreeing with most key points of the OFR proposal such as the need for an LEI, global coverage and the ability to use LEIs without charge and points to the advantages for the industry.
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However, many retailers fiercely oppose the prospect of passing on a 20p charge to their customers for every bag they use.
Representative JOE BARTON (Republican, Texas): And if they spend billions and billions of dollars to put these networks in place, they have the right to charge an enhanced fee for people who want to use those enhanced services.
The site is free to use but will soon charge a fee for premium services, such as uploading video or a book of shared photos and memories.
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In order to encourage credit card use among the public, Visa and MasterCard did not want stores to up-charge customers who wanted to use their convenient tools for purchases.
Retailers must now charge shoppers at least five pence for each new single-use carrier bag.
Drug cartel members have posted banners saying the snack company let law enforcement agents use its trucks for surveillance, a charge Gonzalez denied.
They all charge a lot and they all use call centers with people for whom the job is a paycheck.
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