并且这些工具几乎取代了所有其他更加传统的工具，如面对面的会议和个人电话呼叫。

And these tools are being used almost to the exclusion of other, more traditional tools such as face-to-face meetings and personal phone calls.

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上级一个简单的感谢会让我感觉不错，“加藤说。”尽管他在办公室百分之六十的工作时间是打他的个人电话。

"A simple thank-you from the higher-ups would be nice," said Garten, who spends nearly 60 percent of his workweek making personal calls from his desk.

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今天有几个人打电话请病假。

Several people have called in sick today.

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Video on-demand has to do with the delivery what they call content, while the video phone is the deliver of person-to-person communication. These are not nearly the same, but they both involve video.

随需视频必须与传送他们所称的“内容“相关,而视频电话是一种,个人对个人的传送，那不是,大致相同的，但它们都包含视频。

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