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This calls for creative means of effecting information transfer and making and receiving official payments by telephone.
The first Industrial Revolution was driven by coal and steam power, combined with the printing press; the second was fueled by centralized electricity and the oil-powered internal-combustion engine, together with the telephone, radio, and television.
There is an alarming pattern of press manipulation throughout the region, from Honduran authorities cutting off a national radio station’s telephone service to Argentine officials shuttering a printing press.
Musharraf was recorded by Indian intelligence boasting about the action on an open telephone line during a visit to Beijing.
Even today, most information on patient care is transmitted between clinics and hospitals, and between generalists and specialists, by fax and telephone.
Providing consumers with a way to make low-cost telephone calls over the Internet.
According to the International Telecommunications Union, when the project began less than 0.3% of Ghana's population had a telephone.
The same story is true in poor countries around the world: telephone penetration remained stubbornly stagnant in developing nations until they allowed competitive entry-primarily in the form of mobile telephony-in the 1990's.
In the workplace, algorithms can track employees’ conversations, where they eat lunch, and how much time they spend on the computer, telephone, or in meetings.
Just as the telephone did not supplant the postal system, e-mail sits alongside prior methods of communication.
The Making of SputnikMOSCOW -- On October 4, 1957, my father, Nikita Khrushchev, awaited a telephone call.
In one case, a current United Airlines employee asked for a telephone number for a person, not a machine, in the company’s human-relations department.
It's only in this way that India can hope to create a network of fiber optics and telephone lines to catapult the country into a modern information economy.
The same year, following criminal prosecutions for telephone hacking which led to the closure of Murdoch’s News of the World, then-Prime Minister David Cameron appointed Lord Justice Brian Leveson to head an inquiry into “the culture, practices and ethics of the press; their relationship with the police; the failure of the current system of regulation; the contacts made, and discussions had, between national newspapers and politicians; why previous warnings about press misconduct were not heeded; and the issue of cross-media ownership.”
Having a telephone was a rare privilege: if you were not an important government official, a doctor, or a journalist, you might languish on a long waiting list and never receive a phone.
Members of parliament had among their privileges the right to allocate 15 telephone connections to whomever they deemed worthy.
If you wanted to call another city, say, Delhi, you had to book a “trunk call,” and then sit by the telephone all day waiting for it to come through.
As late as 1984, when an MP rose to protest the frequent telephone breakdowns and the generally woeful performance by a public-sector monopoly, the then communications minister replied in a lordly manner.
In a developing country, he declared, telephones are a luxury, not a right; the government had no obligation to provide better service; and any Indian who was not satisfied with his telephone service could return his phone since there was an eight-year waiting list for telephones.
In the first edition of my book The Elephant, the Tiger and the Cellphone, I reported that, in April 2007, India set a new world record by selling seven million cellphones that month, more telephone connections than any country had ever established in one month.
India has now overtaken the US as the world’s second-largest telephone market, with 857 million SIM cards in circulation and an estimated 600 million individual users.
(Mexican telephone magnate Carlos Slim, for example, is a close competitor to Gates for the title of the world’s richest man.)
Some reasonable estimates put the cost at around $1 billion for an Africa-wide fiber-optic network that could bring Internet connectivity and telephone service across the continent’s villages and cities.
And here, the GDPR should help, because it “introduces the concept of profile portability, whereby a user can move her profile from one service provider to another, like we do when porting our telephone profile – the mobile phone number – from one operator to another.”
Infant mortality has been cut in half, more citizens than ever enjoy educational opportunities, and electric, telephone, and sanitation services have expanded to serve a greater number of people.
A recording of the telephone interview was played in court; sworn testimony was heard from the reporter who conducted the interview and from two editors who witnessed it; the official record from the telephone company was submitted as evidence of the call; and an expert witness concluded that the voice on the recording belonged to Tomy Winata.
The more hotly debated program is one in which the NSA maps the origin and destination of US citizens’ telephone traffic and stores it for possible later inspection (presumably with a court order).
To take a familiar example, we gesture even while speaking on the telephone, when others cannot see us.
Once big companies like Valle do Rio Doce, and telephone companies go up for sale the hype will be spectacular.
It is hardly the first disruptive technology to come along: the printing press, telegraph, telephone, radio, television, and cassettes all posed challenges to the existing order of their day.
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