"There's a Brazilian journalist who's now being investigated for hacking into phone voice mail, " said Botello, senior director of special projects at the center.
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Mr. Leveson's inquiry, which began hearings last autumn, came in the wake of an uproar over illegal mobile-phone voice-mail hacking and alleged bribes-for-scoops at News Corp.
The U.K. government ordered the inquiry in July amid a public outcry over a scandal at News of the World involving interception of mobile-phone voice mails of crime victims, politicians and celebrities in pursuit of scoops.
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The hack came a day before Mr. Murdoch and his son James were expected to appear before Britain's parliament on Tuesday to answer questions about a growing phone-hacking scandal, in which employees of another News Corp. newspaper are alleged to have hacked into cell phone voice mail of celebrities, politicians and in one case a murdered girl.
However, for years after that even many devoted Blackberry handset users maintained a separate cell phone for voice.
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Meyer created a communications system that works on any telephone network and can be accessed on any mobile handset, PC or landline phone using voice messages, e-mail or SMS text.
The usual stuff: phone calls, voice mail, email, Facebook, Twitter, instant messaging, Blackberries, interruptions from co-workers.
Look at the old mandates that require the firms we used to call telephone companies to maintain their copper-wire phone lines and voice-call switching infrastructure.
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To offset the cost of providing the service, most charge monthly fees or require people to make a certain amount of voice phone calls per month.
We have come a long way since the voice phone.
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To cut down on those costs, the USPS created a self-service Web site and set up a phone line with voice-recognition software, either one of which lets users reset passwords on their own.
Remember that the iPad or other tablets do not support traditional voice phone calls on any network, but that distinction is largely irrelevant if you use Skype and have an inbound phone number.
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One of their current projects is the SmartButton, a wireless Bluetooth-enabled badge that connects to your phone and that you press when you want to call someone (you use the phone's voice recognition software to actually dial).
But what if your phone could alter your voice to make you seem more attractive and persuasive?
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Some Marvell executives forgot to hang up the phone after leaving a voice mail with Jasmine and were overheard seemingly plotting to steal the technology.
But, by 1988, a U.S. District Court ruled that the phone providers could sell voice mail, as long as they did not manufacture the voice-mail products themselves.
Buttons set into the elegant metal casing allow you to adjust the volume, select music titles, take phone calls and activate voice control or personal assistant features.
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Take GPS, add Bluetooth, season to taste you've got yourself a fine car navigation system that gets friendly with your phone to provide both voice and data connectivity.
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"I don't need 900 minutes, and I certainly don't need an unlimited plan, " said the University of Michigan admissions counselor, who makes use of Internet phone applications like Google Voice.
Just to name a few: enhanced security, phone finder, Chinese voice assistant (apparently with 85 percent comprehension accuracy), more interactive themes and 5GB of cloud storage service with online client.
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When Clayton landed in Bangkok, he flipped on his phone and left a voice message to say he had arrived safely, but he didn't do it into a normal voicemail box.
Research carried out by Ofcom suggests few people know that net phone services, aka voice over IP, do not connect to 999 or 112, the European Union's universal emergency number for mobiles and fixed lines.
On Wednesday the telecom giant announced a new encryption option for its enterprise smartphone users, allowing them to insert a chip from its partner company KoolSpan into a phone and encrypt the voice traffic to prevent wiretaps.
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The application is one of a number of voice-friendly third-party applications for the iPhone that have helped close the gap between the iPhone and mobile phones that have long given users the ability to perform basic tasks, like dialing phone numbers, with voice commands.
At first I hoped Google Voice would work, but I was dismayed to find out that Google Voice did not allow multiple numbers to point to the same phone, and as we already use Google Voice on all our numbers we needed to find another solution.
This week I got messages by text, email, Twitter, Facebook, voice mail, phone, cell phone, in person and a fax!
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So it's not--you're not hearing over the phone everybody's true voice.
The cable industry has been successful so far poaching voice customers from phone companies with one-bill bundles of TV service, high-speed Internet access and cheap, all-you-can-eat VoIP.
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