The company provides routers and switches used to direct data, voice, and video traffic.

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None of this voice and machine vision means that direct touch on touchpads and displays, keyboard and mouse will go away any time soon.

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While direct dictation garners the most attention for voice-recognition programs, it's the ability to launch and control applications that impresses MacSpeech's Rogers.

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Metro is the tiled based interface designed to work best with direct touch, and for that matter voice and Kinect-like air-gestures.

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Reardon advises keeping the comeback brief (one or two sentences), clear and direct, and in a tone of voice that is authoritative and controlled.

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For example, with messages, why click off to Google Talk or Google Voice when you can send Facebook messages (or text messages) direct through Facebook?

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