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...Alexander Graham Bell made the first call on his invention, summoning his assistant from an office down the hall with the words "Mr. Watson, come here. I want you." Today Bell might simply look at his telephone and say, "Call Watson." A torrent of new technology is turning the plain old telephone and its push-button heirs into sophisticated electronic instruments that are part phone and part computer. They can remember frequently used numbers, block out unwanted calls and listen to voice commands. Once available only to business customers, these "smart" telephone features are now being offered to residential customers...
...they are buying equipment and services from companies as diverse as Sony, GTE and Panasonic. Today at least 60% of all telephones purchased in the U.S. have one or more sophisticated features. Says Christopher Jackson, a telephone expert at the Yankee Group, a Boston market-research firm: "The plain old black box is a relic of the past. People want their telephones to do something other than place calls and receive calls...
...torrent of technology is turning the plain old telephone and its push- + button heirs into sophisticated electronic instruments. Among other things, they block out unwanted calls and listen to voice commands. -- Fujitsu drops its bid for Fairchild. -- Wall Street' s spreading scandal fells Stock Trader Boyd Jefferies. -- Independent filmmakers steal the scene in Hollywood...
...second attack came in the stands. Plain and simple, the UND fans hammered the Crimson boosters into sub-mission...
...optimistic outlook is controversial," he said. "It was interesting in that the people who were most isolated, like those in South and East Boston, thought race relations had improved. Those who were less optimistic lived in mixed racial neighborhoods, like Mattapan or Jamaica Plain...