Word: phoned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Pearl Street resident reports that he accepted a ride from a man and a woman who drove him to the corner of Magazine and Granite Streets. The victim reports he exited the vehicle and was then struck several times in the face. The suspects stole his cell phone and wallet...
...bulletin board outside Lenny Solomon's office in Mallinckrodt Laboratory is filled with articles on "safety news." It includes emergency phone numbers, an article titled "Contact Lenses and Chemicals: an update" and a display of different types of gloves and their uses. There are pages about compressed gas cylinders, hydrofluoric acid and hazardous waste, amid a safety report about incidents, analysis and prevention...
Getting those two PCs talking to each other is already possible with RF (infrared) attachments. But analysts are betting that a home network based on connections through your phone lines will be the standard with staying power. HomePNA, a consortium of high-tech companies including Intel and Lucent, hopes to have the technology, called 1 Mbit/s, in stores early next year...
Travelers have a love-hate relationship with the gadgets they stuff into bags, pockets, briefcases and suitcases to bring on the road. They love the convenience of a cell phone, but they hate the high price of calls. They love the idea of sending e-mail to friends from Bali but hate hunting down the converter they need to plug into a foreign phone jack. Still, they keep coming back for more...
Adhering to the mantra that simpler is better, cell phones and pagers have always had one primary function, respectively, but they got even better at it in 1998. The launch of Iridium's worldwide satellite paging and cellular-phone service was the flashiest advance, but the new low-cost calling plans (of just 10[cents] to 15[cents] a minute) on regular cell phones will do much more to increase their use. The Yankee Group predicts that these lower-priced calling plans will bump up average cell-phone usage, from three to five hours a month, by 2007. Pagers...