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...Starting March 23, users have been able to dial 4-TELL and make contact by saying "ShuttleGirl." Gargan’s voice then leads them through prompts to get their shuttle information...
...confided they slept under their beds to avoid bullets from drive-by shootings. So Douglas and her teachers and parents worked with police to clean things up. Prison inmates were bused in to sweep crack vials from the school playground. Parents cruised Southside armed with cell phones, ready to dial police at the first sign of trouble. Now when Douglas circles the neighborhood, kids bolt out of their homes as if she were the Good Humor man. "She's not afraid to walk up and down the streets like she's lived here for years," says Emily Valenzuela...
...DIAL M FOR MODEM Last week AT&T unveiled 25 Internet pay phones at airports in New York, Atlanta and Dallas. The AT&T Public Phone 2000i has a 12-in. screen, a full-size keyboard and a touch pad. Internet access comes at a reasonable 25[cents] per minute (with a 4-min. minimum), and callers can talk and surf at the same time. No, you don't get your quarter back if you don't have any e-mail...
...thought they had found the killer app: they used it to call their friends to find out whether their postcards had arrived. ("It has? Great. Bye.") In the first part of the 20th century, the Paris utility pioneered a phone-in opera service. Marcel Proust loved it. He'd dial up from home and someone would hold up a phone next to the stage and, voila, Wagner interactif...
...mails for about 10?, roughly the cost of an envelope and pencil. The service has some 60,000 users and centers can be found in post offices, fast food outlets and stand-alone stores. In South Africa, the company's initial push will ignore the highly competitive home dial-up market there and concentrate on offering e-touch services to the growing, well-educated but computerless middle class...