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...know I have the right number. I used speed dial. So come on, pick...
...stores; 7-Eleven's 5,300 U.S. stores will be enabled by next year, says Rick Updyke, V.P. of business development. And perennially coinless drivers in Coral Gables, Fla., can register online with Toronto-based PayMint and pay the city's 4,600 parking meters by cell phone. Parkers dial a toll-free number, log in, enter their lot number and log out after parking. (Of the current 850 users, 10% have agreed to pay the $7-per-month service fee; the rest pay 25˘ per parking period.) Text messages inform parkers that their time is up, with the option...
...Still, the Outlook synch resulted in the only negative experience I've encountered on the phone. Since all of the numbers in my phonebook are 10 digits (that is, none of them start with 1), they all dial fine using my mobile line, but get caught up using my landline. I've pored over the instruction manual to find a remedy for this, and all I can think of is to add 1s to every number, since the mobile line is smart enough to ignore them...
DIED. Ray Milland, 79, Welsh-born actor whose intelligent, graceful and urbane professionalism distinguished both dramatic and comedic roles in more than 120 films, including Easy Living (1937), Beau Geste (1939), The Major and the Minor (1942), The Big Clock (1948), Dial M for Murder (1954) and Love Story (1970), as well as most memorably The Lost Weekend (1945), in which his searing portrait of a desperate alcoholic earned him an Oscar; of cancer; in Torrance, Calif. Once one of the best handgun and rifle marksmen in the British army, the dashing Milland stumbled into acting in minor roles, went...
...Long ago, the registrar’s system wasn’t connected to the network, it was a dial back system—you would call them and it would verify your phone number,” Steen says. “We’ve tried to simulate that same kind of protection and so before you can see anything it tries to verify who is seeking...