PC makers Dell, Lenovo and Acer are all pushing into smartphones, which offer advanced services such as streaming video, E-mail and GPS in addition to voice calls.

个人电脑制造商戴尔，联想和宏基都在准备推出智能手机，它们会提供先进的服务，除了语音通话之外，还有流媒体，电子邮件和GPS。

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The well-connected executive can use any number of voice-over-internet services to make free calls; but the rural poor, if they have phones at all, must pay high rates.

一个掌握了便捷联系方式的执行官可以使用网上声讯服务去拨打任意数量的免费电话。但是对于贫苦的农民，即使他们有电话的话，也要付高费用。

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For the incumbent telecoms operators, however, the quadruple play is all about protecting their core business of fixed-line voice calls, which still accounts for the bulk of their revenues.

然而，对于主体运营商来说，“四重奏”着实为占据他们很大一部分营业收入的核心业务——固定电话服务提供了保护。

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This means that if you purchase a local micro-SIM card (the ones compatible with the new iPad) you can make and receive phone calls on Skype or other VoIP service for about two cents a minute, in contrast to the high cost of roaming voice calls based upon all of the U.S. carriers pricing plans.

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"The telecommunications standards arm of the UN has quietly endorsed the standardisation of technologies that could give governments and companies the ability to sift through all of an internet user's traffic - including emails, banking transactions, and voice calls - without adequate privacy safeguards, " the group said in a statement.

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The Associated Press tracked down one of our favorite ruthless salesmen, MagicJack CEO Dan Borislow, who described a service much like Google Voice and Skype, number portability and all -- except it adds the whole allowing-free-calls-to-regular-ol-telephones bit by charging the companies that carry incoming calls.

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