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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A digital file attached to or associated with a contract or other record and used as the legal equivalent of a written signature.
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Examples
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This spring, it announced partnerships with UPS, Skype, Salesforce. com and Silanis, an e-signature authentication maker.
Software-as-a-service gives small business powerful tools 2010
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In July, Florida defense attorney Gloria Einstein took a deposition from Bryan J. Bly, a document-signer for Citi Residential Mortgage, a unit of Citigroup Inc., who told a lawyer he signed between 2,000 and 5,000 mortgage documents a day, using an electronic "e-signature" stamp.
Foreclosure? Not So Fast Robbie Whelan 2010
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This spring, it announced partnerships with UPS, Skype, Salesforce. com and Silanis, an e-signature authentication maker.
Software-as-a-service gives small business powerful tools 2010
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This spring, it announced partnerships with UPS, Skype, Salesforce. com and Silanis, an e-signature authentication maker.
Software-as-a-service gives small business powerful tools 2010
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Users often neglect to do this (even if they have set an e-signature for their desktop account) which means a sizeable number of your messages are being sent with only your email address to identify you.
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Users often neglect to do this (even if they have set an e-signature for their desktop account) which means a sizeable number of your messages are being sent with only your email address to identify you.
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Users often neglect to do this (even if they have set an e-signature for their desktop account) which means a sizeable number of your messages are being sent with only your email address to identify you.
Writing messages for Blackberries and other PDAs « The Book Publicity Blog 2008
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Between my driver's license, credit cards, checks, e-signature pads, and whatever contracts I fill out on a yearly basis, my signature is completely different on each document.
Robert Siciliano: Handwritten Signature Is Stupid Authorization 2009
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The service, from EchoSign Inc., a Palo Alto, Calif. -based e-signature company, helped cut processing time to two days from three weeks.
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Personal privacy is another issue: an e-signature is potentially traceable to its owner.
Cyberscope 2007
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