But Friend envisions a time when the casing of a handheld computer or telephone will have one organic polymer that soaks up a room's light and uses it to juice a battery, which then powers one of his hyperefficient OLED screens.
On the program, more about the National Security Agency and reports of a vast computer-based telephone call tracking operation.
Researchers analyzed data from computer-assisted telephone interviews with military children from 11 to 17 years old and nondeployed caregivers.
Satoru Ohyama, a managing director at Merrill Lynch Japan, claims that Bard anticipated the boom in i-mode mobile phones by predicting a "telephone computer" that would be a hot investment.
The service on offer from the big FX firms is quite sophisticated, not just based on one man, a computer and a telephone, which is how some of them started.
Bary stated that her daughter had changed significantly in recent months, paying less attention to her younger brother and the family in favor of other activities including late night computer use and telephone calls on her cell phone.
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The telephone through the computer and now fibreoptic networks have made arbitrage faster and cheaper and thus more profitable.
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For example, the telephone, the computer, and the Internet were all major productivity boosters, they allowed individuals to serve much wider audiences and create more value.
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Where workers work at home, the company can still be held to be their employer by providing them with a computer, internet access, telephone service, furniture, supplies, etc.
It transmits the signal via the cellular telephone network to a computer where it can be interpreted.
By moving from telephone dealing to automated computer trading, the exchange was seeking to cut costs for its customers.
But Gilder says all of the components and companies are now in place to make the revolutionary step into the age of the "teleputer, " or a handheld device that's a fully functioning personal computer, digital video camera, telephone, MP3 player and video player.
Its 70, 000 customers, mainly middle-aged and affluent, can run their accounts by telephone or from a personal computer.
Many people lacked basic skills or education and had barely ever used a telephone, much less a computer or sophisticated factory equipment.
They are just simple, basic rooms with 10 to 12 computer terminals, and usually one or two telephone booths.
Potentially even more significant is the year-old Symbian alliance a joint-venture between Psion, an innovative British hand-held computer firm, and the three biggest mobile-telephone makers, Nokia and Ericsson of Europe and Motorola.
At his trial, the High Court in Edinburgh was told Ramzan, 40, began trading from a bedroom at his home in Broughty Ferry, with only a telephone, a fax machine and a computer to access the internet.
At the moment, trading is conducted over the telephone, but may eventually be done at computer terminals.
Two Japanese research laboratories -- one affiliated with computer maker Fujitsu and the other with Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT) -- announced last month that they had succeeded in sending 1 trillion bits or more of information a second through fiber optic cables.
This is because of the steady growth of telephone connections and the huge increase in demand for computer connections to the Internet.
The differences extend well beyond size: The palm-size devices lack keyboards and color screens and are intended pretty much solely for "to do" lists and telephone numbers, while the hand-helds are surprisingly complete computer systems.
These include the telephone, lights, curtains, television, video and even a computer.
Modeled after the information and e-commerce transactions available on the Web, the latest in information technology starts with a telephone number that you'll be able to dial to reach a computer that hears and guides your requests and answers them using voice-recognition technology.
As long as Cuba was not free, she would go on sitting at her computer with her little dog stretched out on the tiles beside her, alert for the telephone, with her front door open and Santa Rita at the ready, and the ceiling fan turning slowly in the smothering air.
With Asterisk loaded onto a computer, a decent-size company can rip out its traditional phone switch, even some of its newfangled Internet telephone gear, and say good-bye to 80% of its telecom equipment costs.
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