Det Con Campbell agreed that the 999 call had been made from a telephone box in Helensburgh and confirmed that it was to provide information in relation to the fire at Scott Court.

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"Two years ago, there were grand plans to have a very expensive set-top box in which everything was converged - the telephone, the internet and the TV, " said Mickey Kalifa, UK general manager of OpenTV, which makes the software sitting inside many set-top boxes.

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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.

ECONOMIST: Direct hit

Shortly after he arrived as chief executive officer in July 1993, he gave the go-ahead to develop a supercharged digital box to serve a new world of fully interactive video networks to be built by the regional Bell telephone companies, Time Warner and others.

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