Other companies are performing functions handled previously by banks, including credit checks, foreign currency trading and credit card and check processing.
Life is defined as any system capable of performing functions such as eating, metabolizing, excreting, breathing, moving, growing, reproducing, and responding to external stimuli.
The amendments would explicitly bring private contractors under the definition of intelligence operatives to make them subject to prosecution, and include any person "performing functions or services for the organisations in accordance with a contract, agreement or other arrangement".
The most cautious would simply be to replace the PCC with a statutory body – Ofpress – performing functions similar to those performed by Ofcom in relation to the broadcast media.
And she points out that her father's name is inscribed on the armed forces memorial near Lichfield, Staffordshire, which honours those "killed on duty while performing functions attributable to the special circumstances and requirements of the armed forces, or as a result of terrorist action, and those who died while deployed on designated operations".
Gravity, a tool that "mines your interests from Facebook and Twitter to present things from around the Web to you," is tweaking its software, he said, with the aim of performing functions like delivering improved restaurant recommendations and powering personalized news readers.
For instance, some watch faces are active and can be tapped to perform functions.
In order to perform functions from away from home, however, a high-speed Internet connection is necessary.
As the iPad becomes popular in the enterprise, business-focused apps have emerged to help perform functions like web conferencing.
This "touchscreen for your bathtub" is able to perform functions just like any other device.
The diencephalon performs functions associated with hormones and homeostasis.
