When the person dialled answers the telephone, there is no agent available, resulting in silence on the line because the automated calling system has ended the call.
Actor James Van Der Beek has criticised US television's reliance on ratings, calling the system "antiquated".
Instead of screen scraping the hotel reservation system and calling it a mobile app, a system of engagement presented on a smartphone will know that a guest has entered the lobby for the first time and probably wants to check in.
FORBES: A Billion Smartphones Require New Systems Of Engagement
Combining this with Skype could create a powerful video calling and conferencing system.
After promotion to lead the whole education portfolio he went on to attack Labour's grammar school policy, calling the selective system "as divisive as it is archaic" and telling MPs how 11-plus exam failures - including his brother - suffered for life.
We implemented a customer survey system, calling every store manager after the installation to make sure they were happy.
FORBES: Raising Prices -- Tactic #3, Creating Additional Value
Theodore Roosevelt ran for President in 1912 on a Progressive Party platform calling for a national system of social insurance.
Alexa McDonough, the New Democrat leader, has campaigned strenuously on health care, criticising both front-runners and calling for an expanded system.
The NUT has opposed the new system, calling it "payment by results".
Now Mundell is back, warning about the urgent need to restore stability to the global monetary system and calling on governments to reinstate hard money.
He thinks customers will benefit from name-calling, not least because the system has practical benefits.
Finally, Microsoft could integrate the Skype calling service into its own operating system Windows Phone 7.
FORBES: Ballmer Psyched For Skype, Microsoft Stock An Easy $30
Meanwhile, the Lib Dems, particularly through their former health spokesman Paul Burstow, have been calling for reform of the creaking system for years.
As we noted yesterday, Bloomberg View responded to its failure with an editorial calling into question the basic American system of government.
The court considered the precedent of Sony's Betamax video-recording technology, which had faced a lawsuit brought by Disney and Universal in 1984 calling for a ban on the system because it would allow infringement of their copyrighted material.
Now, a team of researches from the University of Oxford and the University of Southampton in the UK has developed what they are calling the "Reflectance Transformation Imaging system, " which uses 76 lights to illuminate different sections of the ancient artifacts, one at a time, while an image is taken.
ENGADGET: Alt-week 27.10.12: ancient texts, super-Earths and special-ops mice
Susan Archibald appeared before Holyrood's public petitions committee calling for radical improvements to the current system.
Even some Democrats decry the action, calling it a misuse of the legal system for political ends.
CNN: latimes.com: Talking baseball and politics with George W. Bush
They're calling this the "most powerful entertainment system in the world".
ENGADGET: & Joystiq's live coverage of Microsoft's Xbox 360 E3 event
Like the senators, President Barack Obama is calling for an improved worker-verification system, but he doesn't specifically call for a biometric card for all workers.
It sometimes took "many months" to obtain a parental order, he complained, calling for the UK to adopt a system of rules in place in some US states, where pre-birth orders are available.
Now the petitioners are calling on Skype to create a reporting system for its cooperation with government surveillance modeled on the Transparency Reports issued by tech firms like Google, Twitter, and the California broadband provider Sonic.net.
FORBES: Letter From Forty-Four Digital Rights Groups Demands Skype Detail Its Surveillance Practices
In addition, Mr. Abdulmutallab's cash purchase of a round-trip ticket didn't trigger any secondary screening, calling into question the efficacy of the system that is supposed to spot passengers who are acting suspiciously and may be threats.
Mr Sarkozy seems to think similarly, calling for a multilateral approach to the monetary system.
ECONOMIST: Is there a better way to organise the world��s currencies?
The union is calling on universities to commit themselves to a system based on "equality, not elitism".
Ms Stone also called for a fairer system of care home funding, calling the current situation "confusing and complicated".
BBC: Council care home beds: 600 lost in Wales in five years
Acoustic Processing Suite to optimize system performance and hands-free calling.
ENGADGET: QNX shows off its versatility, powers OnStar accessories as well as floundering tablets
Proposing a motion calling for a "fairer and more purposeful system of assessment", Yorkshire head teacher Jane Gilmour said schools should be able to choose whether to do it, rather than have it imposed.
Moving forward, these capabilities will enable live video conferencing and video calling through websites instead of through native apps or system level controls.
FORBES: Google's New Chrome Browser Can Take Over Your Webcam, Should You Be Scared?
An Essex barrister is calling for a change in the criminal records checking system because dozens of innocent people across England are being denied job opportunities.
应用推荐