The upper echelon of the point-and-shoot segment will be led by cameras that can connect to the web from anywhere, while doubling as full-fledged communication and manipulation devices -- smartphones that enable everything but telephone calls.

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Now, but you had described your frequent telephone calls from Ms. Lewinsky as being bordering on annoyance, I think.

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Apparently, Mr Blair was in a swimming pool when one of the telephone calls came through but he still agreed to take the call.

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It won't be due to any real failure but rather to the flood of telephone calls and hits to CNN.com to check on everybody else around the world.

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And once they do, they will use their permanent Internet connections not only to shop, and receive their television and video programmes, but also to make all their telephone calls.

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The pigeons have given way to the cables and satellites that deliver telephone calls and television pictures, but controls on foreign ownership have stayed and spread.

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U.S. intelligence agencies have powerful capabilities to intercept telephone calls and e-mails, but al-Qaida has become very disciplined at avoiding electronic communication.

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Telephone operators could still receive calls with no trouble, but they filled out information by hand on slips of paper, and runners took the paper to the appropriate dispatcher, located on the same floor, who radioed responders.

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But when Suharto announced a budget in January that flouted earlier pledges to the IMF, telephone calls from his ASEAN colleagues as well as U.S. President Bill Clinton and Japanese Prime Minister Hashimoto Ryutaro are thought to have played a decisive role in persuading him to sign a revised agreement to make tough reforms.

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