Steve Wozniak, the co-founder of Apple, who hacked telephone systems early in his career, sent Hotz a congratulatory e-mail.
Circuit-switched telephone systems have been replaced by packet-switched networks (most notably the Internet).
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In many cases this is true: many office telephone systems use two-digit dates, as do some security systems, fax machines and copiers.
It bought a privately owned Finnish company, Martis Oy, in 1993 and is selling cable telephone systems in the Netherlands, in partnership with Dutch company A2000.
Think of something slightly different for a moment: telephone systems.
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Mr Rupert adds that some of its own spaces were damaged by the attacks and some of those locations are using temporary telephone systems until repairs can be made.
This analogy to address books points to an important limitation for social networks, such as Facebook, compared with older sorts of network, such as the postal or telephone systems.
But thanks to the fast adoption of instant messaging and Internet-based telephone systems, the days of cheap and easy video calling may finally be here -- they just don't run across phone lines.
This leapfrogging has already happened with telephone systems: Developing countries that lacked land-line telephone and broadband connectivity, such as India, made the leap directly to mobile systems rather than build out their land-line infrastructures.
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When decent profits were being made in one part of a corporate empire, say, just as an example, Latin American telephone systems, then those profits were used internally to fund the purchase of North American hotel chains.
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Current Analysis senior analyst Joel Conover says Cisco had been lagging in the CRM space, where competitor Avaya (nyse: AV - news - people ) already released software to connect its IP telephone systems to Microsoft's CRM.
"Bank cards were being swallowed by bank machines, and there were problems with the online and telephone banking systems, " she said.
The enterprise version can also integrate conventional radio systems and telephone networks into the system.
They can vigorously enforce antitrust laws and maintain a pro-competitive bias to securing equal access for service providers to such networks as telephone, wireless and cable systems.
Dell and Gateway have changed the way computers are sold by allowing customers to configure their own systems, by telephone or over the Internet, and simply shipping them the box.
The communications path of an attack can be convoluted and involve numerous parties, such as ISPs, telephone companies, and third party systems used as proxies by the attacker.
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Value Direct sells electrical appliances and home entertainment systems over the internet and telephone.
MCI's brand, marketing and billing systems with its burgeoning local-telephone operations, it might be able to take a big slice of business away from the Baby Bells.
In addition, the company has signed a memorandum of understanding with a U.S. systems integrator and a maker of telephone PBXs to become channel partners in the distribution of the technology.
Several telephone companies and electric utilities formed units to build new cable systems, while entrepreneurs clamored to get in on the action.
When computerized dialing systems were introduced, they replaced the need for manual telephone switchboards and, consequently, the switchboard operators that ran them.
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He scrapped top management, merged all purchasing operations into Cemex's central system, replaced old-fashioned ledger and handwritten accounting systems with computers and linked the operations via satellite and telephone lines to Mexico.
The differences extend well beyond size: The palm-size devices lack keyboards and color screens and are intended pretty much solely for "to do" lists and telephone numbers, while the hand-helds are surprisingly complete computer systems.
It is estimated that this facility will be capable of producing switching systems capable of handling between 1-1.5 million telephone lines annually.
The message by was relayed to national authorities in participating countries, who then alerted the public using a variety of systems including sirens, text messages, email, media outlets, and telephone.
These systems had interfaces back out to the real world through stores, people, telephone, shipping and so on.
While few rural Africans have landlines, mobile telephone ownership is rapidly increasing, and companies such as Kenyan telecom provider, Safaricom, have already introduced systems that allow subscribers to transfer money via cell-phones.
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