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...look at how these devices may eventually be used, Finland offers some interesting insights. At the Helsinki airport, a Coke vending machine has a mobile number instead of a coin slot--dial up the machine and a Coke drops out, with the charge appearing on your phone bill. There's also a Helsinki car wash you can operate without leaving your car: dial...
Technology was supposed to make our lives simpler. Instead we're stuck with 40-lb. monitors, beeping cell phones and a rat's nest of cables. Now JVC and Sharp are making truly simple handheld devices for sending and receiving e-mail. Users just type a note, dial a toll-free number on any phone, then hold the device up to the mouthpiece while short, modemlike screeches indicate that messages are being transmitted. Available this fall, JVC's $100 HC-E100 and Sharp's $150 TelMail require a $10 monthly...
Other new offerings from FAS Computer Services include a Dial-Up networking installer on CD-ROM, which includes new versions of Netscape and other programs; full networking support for Windows 98; Windows NT Workstation software on Science Center labs; and 56K and ISDN-compatibility on the dialup modem pool, enabling users with these high-speed modems to access the FAS network
...Currie helped keep the relationship secret. When the President wanted to talk with Ms. Lewinsky, Ms. Currie would dial the call herself rather than go through White House operators, who keep logs of presidential calls made through the switchboard. When Ms. Lewinsky phoned and Ms. Currie put the President on the line, she did not log the call, though the standard procedure was to note all calls, personal and professional. According to Secret Service uniformed officers, Ms. Currie sometimes tried to persuade them to admit Ms. Lewinsky to the White House compound without making a record...
There were holes as well in the Administration's evidence against Sudan's el-Shifa Pharmaceutical Industries plant, which cruise missiles flattened in the Aug. 20 retaliatory attack. The White House had to dial back earlier claims that the plant produced only chemical-weapons precursors and that bin Laden had financed its operation. It turns out that el-Shifa manufactured much of the antibiotics, malaria and tuberculosis drugs sold in Sudan. And the CIA had evidence only that bin Laden had put money into Sudan's military industry, not the plant specifically...