But if one had to isolate an instant, in the thirty years of his ownership, that best portrayed the Murdoch touch it would be the dictum that he issued, over the phone, on the evening of Saturday, April 23, 1983.
One could argue, however, that it does not matter since there was already a different set of companies in control prior to the rise of the app store: the telcos once had full control over what went on your phone and still have control over the pipes that deliver data to it.
There's no word on when the update will grace the 8X's brethren on other carriers, but if your smartphone happens to call the magenta network home, mosey on over to the "Phone Update" settings section to check for the fresh release.
ENGADGET: T-Mobile HTC 8X gets Windows Phone 8 update packing text messaging and WiFi tweaks
Gateway, along with Dell, convinced Americans that buying PCs through the mail or over the phone--and later on the Internet--was a good idea.
Thankfully, the nice folks at Walgreens are able to show them how to refill prescriptions just by taking a picture of the old bottle on the phone, and messaging it over.
"We're looking at a photo of Gavin right now that our sons taped on the wall, " Richard Norton, 32, said over the phone from Arizona, where his family has joined him while he works on a business degree.
When the phone rings, the call comes in over the top of the music and, depending on your model of phone, the Skull Candy will answer for you automatically.
Sadly, you won't find anything like the Infinity screen on the One X and One S, which gently drapes over the phone's edge.
ENGADGET: Droid Incredible 4G LTE review: Verizon gets an excellent smaller-sized Android phone
If you forget or lose it, the IRS will give it to you over the phone, but plan on it taking as much as an hour of waiting.
But today's students don't even use phone lines--they rely entirely on cellular connections or make free phone calls over the Internet, using programs like Skype.
There was a noticeable improvement when I made the call on the same phone over Sprint.
You load it with money on a computer or over the phone before your trip.
He told the court that voicemail messages on the duchess's mobile phone "were intercepted for the News of the World over a considerable period of time".
In the first demo, the goggles are paired over Bluetooth with an app running on an Android phone.
The meeting between Mr Murdoch and Milly's parents and sister came on the day that Rebekah Brooks resigned amid mounting pressure over the phone hacking allegations.
BBC: Rupert Murdoch says sorry to Dowler family over hacking
Facebook has over a billion users on the desktop, but its phone ecosystem won't pop up over night.
But voice-over-Internet Protocol services are starting to catch on as consumers get used to the idea of making phone calls over the Internet.
Or at least it was until it fired him over the phone on October 13.
FORBES: First Cash Financial Services Has Standards, Fires Outed Reddit Troll
Sotomayor said she was interviewed over the phone on May 21 by Craig, White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, senior presidential adviser David Axelrod and vice presidential chief of staff Ron Klain, among others.
Since then, Glu Mobile has gone public and over the past two months, Ballard and I have talked on the phone and had lunch in New York.
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.
That means being able to manage customer service over the phone, on Twitter, or one day, who knows?
FORBES: Saving Customer Service With Social Media - And A Song
Facebook Home and the First phone to ship with it on board were revealed just over a month ago, and in the time since, the Home team has been hard at work improving the platform.
The goal is to make it easy to buy the phone then make the money back and a profit over time on service contracts.
"As I was walking back through the crowd it was the word on everyone's lips, " Sally Anne Aldous, 29, told CNN over the phone.
Although the corporate giant won't answer its phone and the big N refuses to comment on rumors, our pals over at Joystiq were able to confirm the lack of pre-planned demo space for the Wii in the Q4 store layouts.
Users can move their mouse over the image and click on the phone's buttons.
If the interview is done by phone, once the interview is over you will be hung up on.
应用推荐