At the Consumer Electronics Show, Citron was showing off the new V Phone, a phone in a USB stick.

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Its new V-series cell phone, dubbed the "triplets, " lets customers mix and match colors and features, like videoclip playback.

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For small businesses, AOpen America came out with two new modem routers, the IRoute 128 ISDN external modem router and the PRoute 112, an external standard phone line V.90 modem router.

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Stuck on the tarmac at Newark International Airport in his Gulfstream V on Sept. 11 and cut off from the world when his cell phone wouldn't work, EDS Chief Executive Richard Brown silently watched out a jet window as the World Trade towers across the Hudson River burned and collapsed.

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Stuck on the tarmac at Newark International Airport in New Jersey in his Gulfstream V on Sept. 11 and cut off from the world when his cell phone wouldn't work, Richard Brown, the CEO of EDS, watched silently as the World Trade towers across the Hudson River burned and collapsed.

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Delve told Scrum V on Sunday that he was desperate for an international recall and was waiting for that "phone call... out of the blue" that duly arrived on Monday.

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Later this year Visa will launch V.me, an app that allows user to store the details of several payment cards in their phone and then use them to make NFC payments.

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Ironically, the closest Slim gets to computer literacy is navigating his Palm V: He uses the calculator and address book, but someone else has to enter the addresses and phone numbers for him.

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