The hack came a day before Mr. Murdoch and his son James were expected to appear before Britain's parliament on Tuesday to answer questions about a growing phone-hacking scandal, in which employees of another News Corp. newspaper are alleged to have hacked into cell phone voice mail of celebrities, politicians and in one case a murdered girl.
However, for years after that even many devoted Blackberry handset users maintained a separate cell phone for voice.
Current research in audio processing includes noise suppression and continuous speech recognition, which can be applied as much to cell phones as to voice-controlled telematic devices in vehicles.
This is not to imply that people who voice concerns about cell phone radiation are misguided.
This week I got messages by text, email, Twitter, Facebook, voice mail, phone, cell phone, in person and a fax!
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Drivers access the Ford Service Delivery Network, a network of data centers providing turn-by-turn directions, business searches, and on-demand news, sports and weather information, through a simple voice-connection using their cell phone.
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Google Voice users in the US can place outbound calls from their cell phone app, from the web-based application, or by dialing their Google Voice number.
Then, with a combination of voice commands and buttons on his cell phone, he navigates through a spoken list of options.
However, Sprint recently announced a multi-year, multi-billion-dollar network upgrade that will replace many existing cell sites with a single cell radio that can be used for its voice and broadband services and that can be used either for WiMAX or LTE.
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Touting itself as the industry's "first smart mobile provider, " Zact takes an entirely different tact to cell phone service, offering the consumer total control over voice, text and data plans, even across multiple devices.
Time Warner Cable Business Class offers data, video and voice services to businesses of all sizes, cell tower backhaul services to wireless carriers and, through its NaviSite subsidiary, managed and outsourced information technology solutions and cloud services.
Taobao offered instant messaging and voice mail to mobile phones for buyers and sellers because Chinese users were cell-phone savvy rather than computer savvy.
Another unnecessary cost: employees who call a company-paid 800 number to retrieve voice mail from their desktop phone instead of using free long distance on a cell phone.
That game and other previewed titles like "Splinter Cell: Blacklist" and "Madden 2013" will use the Kinect system's voice controls to let players speak, instead of fiddling with buttons, to give certain commands.
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If you call-forward your U.S. cell to Skype, you can avoid the high per-minute charges to receive calls and voice mail as well.
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