Now, Facebook seems to want to make friends with phone makers, with HTC likely the first of several partners.
He would check in with friends by phone and through the Internet from time to time, but was never precise about his movements.
Most people nowadays can't remember their friends' phone numbers -- in spite of being in constant contact with them -- and correct spelling is growing largely irrelevant when doing a Google search with all those ultra-smart (okay, sometimes they can be real dumb too) suggestions.
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Last month, friends of two British skiers who went missing in Verbier in the Swiss Alps used Twitter to find their friends' cell phone numbers.
Contrast that to picks I make for my own account: I roll up my sleeves, spend days chewing on every possible factor, pore over pages of obscure trade journals, pester analyst friends on the phone, consider all the angles.
"Fashion industry friends say the Ubuntu phone and tablet are the most beautiful interfaces they've seen for touch" said Ivo Weevers, who leads the Canonical design team.
Roitblat realized that his work could be used to solve Kraftsow's problem as the two old friends talked on the phone one night, and DolphinSearch was born.
Having already made our reservation over the phone, my friends and I walked past the massive, sleeping St.
When I was growing up, my mom talked on the phone to her friends, Carol, Linda and Nanci.
You hear updates not only from headlines and newsfeeds, but from emails and cell phone calls from friends.
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Your updates and those of your friends slide vertically down the phone screen.
It could also tell you where your cell phone-carrying friends are, or lots of other things about what is nearby.
She has trouble walking and spends most of her day on her bed, talking to friends and relatives on the phone.
While watching his daughter play on her phone with her friends, he realized casual gaming is creating a growing audience for the turn-based strategy genre.
Wakened by a phone call from friends, the club regular immediately started pulling out bodies as smoke spewed so thick that entering the building was unthinkable.
Those who do use them to call colleagues to arrange work meetings, phone and text friends to set up dinner dates and ring home to check in on their babies.
Dennis Gilbert, who had represented Mr. Bonilla earlier in Mr. Bonilla's career and remains one of his friends, said in a phone interview that there was no need for Mr. Bonilla to strong-arm the Mets into such a lucrative buyout.
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It's a genuinely unique concept, and considering that you can drag almost anything you see on the phone to it, it works quite well -- assuming you spend a lot of time sending rich content from your phone to your friends.
One of his friends said Ben made a desperate phone call begging for help minutes before he died.
Then Saudi spokesmen made it clear that King Abdullah and Mubarak are close friends and were repeatedly on the phone to one another.
Please do remember, friends, that even if your phone has a password, the contents can often be accessed once the phone is linked to a computer.
In Bar 10, a place at the Westin hotel where Deborah Kathan is hanging out with friends, TV screens flash a phone number, the mayor's hotline, where people can call to get information about the attacks.
For example, if a mobile account opened in Shanghai, and sparingly used for local calls, begins making numerous calls from Beijing to a few numbers in a distant western province, then it is likely that a phone thief is calling friends back home.
Personalised e-mails, phone calls and appeals from friends or neighbours, the theory runs, should help counter the flood of negative advertising.
Where getting on the phone with their high school friends seemed foreign when they could just make plans via text message and IM.
In the hours after the earthquake, NTT DoCoMo, like other Japanese carriers, had difficulty managing cellular traffic as people rushed to make phone calls to family and friends.
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Back in 1998, I remember marveling at high school students choosing to text one another rather than make phone calls, updating their friends with their "status" and even taking pictures with their mobile phones.
We had no place to rush off to -- no homework, no work, no friends waiting, limited Internet access, no phone calls.
The conversations were on speaker phone and were heard by several friends who had gathered at her flat to help search for her.
Leone's cross-examination also revealed a young woman who chatted on the phone, went out with her friends and lied about her age to get into bars.
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