Normally I have five or six browser windows open on two screens of my computer, plus the phone on the desk.

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On Monday morning in Paris the phone rings on the desk of Christian Vandenhende, the Renault manager whose benchmarking research on global sourcing Ghosn had cited in the Sunderland meeting on Friday.

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So if you are sitting at your desk talking on the phone and your desk is covered with tons of reports, newspapers, graphs and books, this means that a lot of that stuff will come out of your mouth during the course of an interview.

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As the form factors get bigger and those young people grow up, get jobs and have to talk on the phone, Bluetooth will come to the rescue with connectivity to desk handsets and car speakers.

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Equally, if you leave the stylus on a desk somewhere and try to walk off, the phone -- courtesy of its accelerometer -- alerts you to the fact that it's being moved without its buddy.

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While on the same headset, employees can take a call from their desk phone and the next from their cell phone as calls can be handled from both sources at the same time on the same headset.

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Nine months later, Ms. Ravazzolo discussed Libor bidding on the phone with someone on Barclays's money-market desk.

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An internal report, obtained by the Los Angeles Times, showed the LA County District Attorney alleged the image was leaked after a stack of photos of the singer's injuries was left lying on a desk at the Wilshire police station, and Ms Reyes took a picture of one with her phone.

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