After all, Siri is basically an electronic version of a secretary, who schedules appointments and looks things up for you.

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Hirai Yoshimitsu, deputy secretary-general of the Electronic Commerce Promotion Council of Japan, predicts that within a decade, half of Japan's e-commerce will be conducted over non-PC devices such as phones and public computer kiosks.

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Dean Heller, Nevada's secretary of state, wants to instill that same degree of confidence in the state's electronic voting machines.

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Such orders, involving a variety of restraints such as electronic tagging, bans on unauthorised visitors and electronic communications as well as strict curfews, can be imposed on the simple say-so of the home secretary for indefinitely renewable periods of 12 months.

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