For example, Gorman reports, if a user wants to send an email to a contact, Assistant will prompt him to find out if the user wants to send a message to a personal or work email address.

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And although aid money can send a doctor to the boondocks, it cannot make him show up to work.

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Mr. Gibson, a software executive, knew about LifeImage's services through his work, and he reached a contact there who helped him send the MRI within minutes to Boston Children's Hospital, a LifeImage customer.

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