Despite the rudeness of doing so, 64 percent of employees report that they will ignore a meeting in which they are participating to answer email, answer a cell phone, update their social status, or send an instant message.
Jennifer Oz LeRoy marches into her Manhattan office and, rhinestone-studded cell phone in hand, demands a status report on a doorman who has been rude to patrons at the Russian Tea Room.
We're also anticipating at least a few Windows Phone wildcards that could shake up the status quo and make this a three-horse race.
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We'll be keeping a close eye on how the November results alter the status quo -- between Windows Phone, LG's Optimus G and a cavalcade of multi-device launches, there's been potential for more than one tidal shift in the mobile world in the past few weeks.
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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.
Integrate your phone with your social networks, and a phone call from a friend will pop up his latest status update.
More prominently-placed tiles in the phone's contacts manager have their published content (status updates, for instance) appear more frequently on the screen.
Years ago, Nokia and Motorola dominated the local cell phone market, but analysts say they never had the cult status of the iPhone.
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In Internet search and mobile-phone software, the company has been relegated to also-ran status, behind Google ( GOOG) and Apple ( AAPL).
"If I were a plan participant and I was planning to take a lump sum, I would pick up the phone and call H-R and ask about the plan funding status, " says Andrew Wozniak, an actuary at BNY Mellon Asset Management, which manages investments for dozens of large company pension plans.
The interviewer on the phone wanted to know if Arpaio thought schoolchildren should be asked about their immigration status.
The household survey is a survey, mostly by phone, of about 60, 000 households, whose members answer several questions to determine their employment status.
You call someone up on the phone, a lawyer charges obscene fees, a couple of days later they tell you what the trademark status is.
Yes, that's right: you'll be able to synchronize read status and sent items with your Gmail account, just as if you were using virtually any other phone produced in the last several years!
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