She has been instructed to hand over documents and recordings of telephone conversations as part of the inquiry, which grew out of allegations that she sacked Monegan for refusing to fire her former brother-in-law from the state police.

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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.

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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.

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The two areas in which the most hand waving has been done are the ability to provide a quality telephone product over the best-effort Internet and the possibility that providing telephone service over IP might be economically feasible.

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At least they should more easily be able to pick up the telephone and talk if their generals let things get out of hand.

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He is accused of grabbing her hand, persuading her to go into a laundry room, getting her mobile telephone number and threatening to "release confidential information" about her to her employer.

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Telephone operators could still receive calls with no trouble, but they filled out information by hand on slips of paper, and runners took the paper to the appropriate dispatcher, located on the same floor, who radioed responders.

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