Palm isn't so optimistic about the proceedings: according to a study it commissioned in the UK with lpsos MORI, 70% of people who send messages at midnight experience a delay in delivery, with places like London experience 77% delays, and 23% of Britons waiting over six hours for their text messages to arrive.

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What's more you can set it to start cooking at a certain time - and then send a message from your smartphone to delay it turning itself on if you get stuck at work.

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The African Union (AU) decided at an emergency meeting on Thursday to send a high-level delegation to press the UN Security Council to delay the indictment.

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Singhal pointed to Google Now, which is designed to send users information before they even search for it, such as flight delay information, or when someone should leave for a meeting, taking into account traffic.

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Pass up promises of "can't miss" deals or urgent requests to send money immediately because the market is moving so fast that you can't delay.

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The dish would send the ISP's data up to one of the satellites (in low earth orbits to minimize signal delay), which would then relay the data back down to a backbone access point.

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