And yet, what we learned was that when ordinary people come together -- (applause) -- when you believe in something so deeply that you're willing to talk to your friends and talk to your neighbors and talk to your co-workers, knock on doors and make phone calls -- when the American people decide what's right, then all that money doesn't matter.
For one, they have high-speed Internet access, allowing users to do things like video-conference as simply as they now make phone calls (the new phones come with tiny, built-in video cameras).
Its 1 million users make one-third of all paid Net phone calls, paying a penny a minute for domestic long-distance and 4 cents a minute for calls to Paris (a quarter of what the big carriers charge).
They let you make phone calls, send e-mails, browse the Web, take pictures and video, play music and even use applications such as Microsoft Office.
Anton Nozil operated a small Internet cafe, where people went to make phone calls or send e-mail messages to relatives in the U.S. Now, only the sign remains.
Ooma customers will be able to download an Ooma iPhone or iPod Touch application to make phone calls over any Wi-Fi network using an iPhone or iPod touch.
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As her preschool-aged charges nap with an assistant watching, she has the go-ahead to make phone calls to set up real estate appointments for later in the day, she says.
The more Americans abandon it to go mobile-only or make phone calls over the internet, the more fragile it becomes: its high fixed costs have to be spread over ever fewer subscribers.
They let you make phone calls, send e-mails, browse the Web, take pictures and video, play music and even use applications such as Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) Office.
Not the National Security Agency, which is conducting a pilot of 100 Motorola smartphones running the Android OS that it says are already good enough for its employees to make top-secret and classified phone calls from the field.
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But today's students don't even use phone lines--they rely entirely on cellular connections or make free phone calls over the Internet, using programs like Skype.
If nothing else, the presence of an 8-inch tablet that can make voice calls makes a 5.5-inch phone that can do the same seem a lot more reasonable.
The plaintiffs in the ACLU suit include individuals or organizations that make frequent overseas phone calls, send e-mail overseas.
Users are already employing onboard Wi-Fi to make Internet phone calls, likely killing the modest returns from the expensive onboard phones.
's Wi-Fi handset, a cellular-like phone which latches onto "hotspots" to make calls, are already used to the effects of limited coverage--perhaps even worse than what cell users experience.
Users of Vonage 's Wi-Fi handset, a cellular-like phone which latches onto "hotspots" to make calls, are already used to the effects of limited coverage--perhaps even worse than what cell users experience.
Each model includes a three-button Apple-specified remote to make and receive phone calls while controlling volume and playback features.
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Additionally, you might want to make time for two phone calls during the month for quick check-ins and progress updates.
To prevent guests from racking up long-distance charges, the phone in the apartment could not make outgoing calls.
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Users will be able to make and receive calls from their Bluetooth-enabled mobile, Cisco Unified IP Phone, Cisco Unified Wireless IP Phone or Cisco Cius and can switch among the endpoints as they change location.
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Prisoners receive mail or make phone calls to communicate with the outside world, but when one is called-out to come to the main office of the prison it is usually bad news.
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His actions could re-write the rules on when pilots can send private messages or make personal phone calls.
With the new version, users will be able to make and receive free2 1-to-1 video calls over Skype between their Android phone and other Skype contacts on the iPhone, Mac, Windows PCs and even TVs3.
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"This is a real big deal because now hundreds of millions of Gmail users can make phone calls right from their Gmail page, " Craig Walker, product manager for real-time communications told BBC News.
In the days of copper-wire telephony, customers would be able to pick up the phone and make calls even if their power went out, because the copper would conduct electricity to power analog phones on the receiving end.
Unlike competitor's remotes, the Lenovo 4-in-1 remote controller can also be used as a VOIP handset3 to make and receive phone calls over the Internet, similar to a typical cordless telephone.
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We already are seeing some early efforts to make this happen, such as built-in navigational systems, Bluetooth devices for hands-free phone calls and stream music, and sensors and cameras that help a driver park in a tight spot.
In the early nineteen-seventies, Wozniak, the hacker archetype, built a system that let him make free phone calls.
This means that if you purchase a local micro-SIM card (the ones compatible with the new iPad) you can make and receive phone calls on Skype or other VoIP service for about two cents a minute, in contrast to the high cost of roaming voice calls based upon all of the U.S. carriers pricing plans.
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