Last year, it established a direct-sales network in Germany allowing investors who are enticed by its advertisements to dial a local telephone number to purchase funds.

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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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Ostergaard demonstrated how a user can dial a telephone number from the keypad of a Palm and connect a cordless headset to a regular fixed-line desk phone.

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Punch the numbers into a telephone dial pad in a phone booth outside the bar, and a concealed door swings open to reveal a classic cocktail joint that swaggers with the decadence of a 1920s Chicago speakeasy.

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