The telephone-equipment companies want voice dialling (useful in cars), automatic call-centres, computerised operator-services and messaging that allows users to pick up and send e-mails and faxes on an ordinary telephone anywhere in the world.
Ofcom said it had seen a rise in complaints about this type of call - which occur when automatic dialer systems used by call centres make more calls than they have people to take them.
Unfortunately, the Lukwerks cameras do not support panning or zooming, automatic notification of a call center is on the drawing board.
In addition, by monitoring the frequency or voltage of the power grid, the platform provides automatic demand response when grid conditions call for it.
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Financial institution call center customer service representatives often rely on the Automatic Number Identification (ANI), a phone number that appears with each incoming call.
He got a call from William Fishman, cofounder of Automatic Retailers of America (now Aramark).
The most recent call was on Friday, the day the automatic budget cuts began.
False alarms generated by automatic fire alarm and fire detection systems account for more than 40, 000 of call outs every year, making up a third of all incidents for fire crews in London.
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With that in mind, European finance ministers downgraded a planned meeting Wednesday to a conference call, presumably as a way to show Greek leaders that they should not assume support will be automatic.
While we told you earlier this week that the Ion 2-powered ASUS Eee PC 1201PN wouldn't be arriving until late May, a number of European sites have gotten early review samples of the 12-inch "netbook" -- if you choose to call it that -- and have discovered that it doesn't use NVIDIA's Optimus automatic graphics switching technology.
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