With the Quick Action function, users can run Quick Dial, Web search, alarm setting, and music replay with a single tap.

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"Friendster still exists, " he said while reminiscing about his dial-up Web history.

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Both input methods, Santos notes, can be utilized in a number of ways on a phone: to navigate the device, dial contacts, compose messages and conduct web searches.

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The mobile grabs data off the Web about three times as fast as a regular dial-up phone connection, plenty of speed for e-mail and sending photographs or videoclips.

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Unlike AirPlay, DIAL lets you launch apps, even web apps, on the TV -- if it's a Smart TV, you'll even be redirected to download an appropriate app from its app store.

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Because DirecPC is still tethered to phone-line modems for Web page and e-mail requests, I must dial into my regular Internet service provider to get started online.

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The Web site is gone, and phoning the group's New York office yields a dial tone.

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Web applications are often slow, because most consumers have to gain access to them over dial-up connections.

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Always-on net connection: If your computer is always connected to the web in someway this will be a lot easier, but if needed, it can dial up and send the images off too.

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Modeled after the information and e-commerce transactions available on the Web, the latest in information technology starts with a telephone number that you'll be able to dial to reach a computer that hears and guides your requests and answers them using voice-recognition technology.

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