Posted on December 15th, 2008 by moneyvsdebt
Today a majority of credit card transactions are sent electronically to merchant processing banks for authorization, capture and deposit. Various methods exist for presenting a credit card sale to “the system.” In all circumstances either the entire magnetic strip is read by a swipe through a credit card terminal/reader or the credit card information is [...]
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Posted on October 30th, 2008 by moneyvsdebt
At grocery stores across Las Vegas, voters are casting their ballots, and then shopping for bananas or hitting the slot machines a few feet away.
About 100 people have voted from the windows of their cars, A.T.M. style, in Orange County, Calif. Several busloads of voters pulled up to the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections in [...]
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Posted on October 22nd, 2008 by moneyvsdebt
Apple Rises on IPhone Surge, Jobs Reassures Investors (Update1)
Seems you just can’t keep this darn stock down. No matter how bad the market wants to beat tech an stock a day seems to be the way to pass all those woo on by.
Apple Inc. rose as much as 12 percent in German trading [...]
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Posted on October 21st, 2008 by moneyvsdebt
In computing, a JAR file (or Java ARchive) is used for aggregating many files into one. It is generally used to distribute Java classes and associated metadata.
JAR files are based on the ZIP file format. JAR files can be created and extracted using the “jar” command that comes with the JDK. It can also be [...]
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Posted on October 10th, 2008 by moneyvsdebt
As uncertainty swirled about its future, Wachovia Corp. (WB) lost billions of dollars in customer deposits – first before Citigroup Inc. (C) offered to buy its banking operations and later after Citi attempted to block a competing bid by Wells Fargo Corp. (WFC), according to court documents unsealed Friday.
In a court document filed Wednesday and [...]
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