Word: using
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...read to succeed, however, media companies will need a trustworthy, easy-to-use payment platform. Common online payment methods like credit cards aren't feasible because processing fees can exceed the value of such tiny transactions. In the gaming world, the typical micropayment system allows consumers to transfer money (usually via credit or debit cards) into electronic accounts, or e-wallets, where hard cash is converted into digital currency for online purchases. There are already several companies providing micropayment services to gaming websites; Santa Clara, Calif. - based PlaySpan offers its service in 80 countries. Micropayments are also migrating to mobile...
...Picture Thank you, Joe Klein, for being the rare writer to condemn both the use of torture and the release of its images [June 1]. The response to the use of torture should be based on a factual examination, not on a visceral reaction to pictures. Images are not necessary to understand and evaluate what has happened. One can assess a story about a murder, for example - and have a complete moral response - without seeing the crime-scene photos. Nadia El-Badry, DOBBS FERRY...
...hard to read too much into the result when almost three out of five voters failed to turn up at the ballot box, and when campaigning was mostly based on distinctly local, and sometimes trivial, issues. "European election campaigns are run on national agendas, and national governments use the E.U. as a scapegoat," says European Commission Vice President Margot Wallström. "If all the failures are the fault of Brussels and all the successes are because of national government, then it becomes very difficult to mobilize voters for these elections...
...Because the formula for determining credit scores, which banks use to decide whether to give you a mortgage or any other loan, looks at something called your "utilization ratio," the total amount of credit you use vs. the amount you have available. If you have $25,000 worth of available credit and you put $5,000 on your cards every month, your utilization ratio is a healthy, hey-I'm-living-within-my-means 20%. But cut down that credit line to $10,000 and suddenly your ratio jumps to 50%, making you look pretty overextended...
Shchednov is one of a growing number of artists in Russia who have been accused of breaching censorship conventions and insulting authority. There is no specific law that explicitly forbids anti-Establishment artworks, but law-enforcement figures can easily find loopholes that they can use to detain artists. They are helped by legislation passed in 2002 that forbids the expression of extremism. The law is intended to combat far-right nationalism, but many artists have been caught in its wide...