Mr. Hinton helmed the U.K. newspaper unit when much of the voice-mail interception occurred.
The two men were sentenced in 2007 after pleading guilty to illegally intercepting voice-mail messages.
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He designed a technically sophisticated voice-mail system, but the earning potential of the technology wasn't a given.
The probe is part of a wider criminal investigation into illegal reporting tactics, including email and voice-mail interception.
Mr. Blair's wife, Cherie Blair, filed suit against News Corp. for illegal voice-mail interception, her lawyer said in February.
The Regional Bell Operating Companies weren't legally able to sell voice-mail services yet.
Widespread allegations of voice-mail interception at News of the World caused News Corp. to close the tabloid in July 2011.
The "other" Indiana Jones invented a voice-mail system that is now used by an estimated 500 million people around the world.
The other two focus on voice-mail interception, or phone hacking, and alleged payments to police by reporters in exchange for stories.
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Aside from bribery, police also are investigating journalists' alleged attempts to illegally intercept email and voice-mail messages in pursuit of information.
Mr. Leveson's inquiry, which began hearings last autumn, came in the wake of an uproar over illegal mobile-phone voice-mail hacking and alleged bribes-for-scoops at News Corp.
But, by 1988, a U.S. District Court ruled that the phone providers could sell voice mail, as long as they did not manufacture the voice-mail products themselves.
Despite falling prices for high-speed bandwidth and wireless service, telecom budgets keep growing because of increased usage and new services such as virtual private networks, voice-mail storage and Web hosting.
But a June 29, 2005, an email sent by a junior reporter from the News of the World to Mr. Mulcaire contained a transcript of 35 hacked voice-mail messages from Mr. Taylor's phone.
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Deadlines and all their grim paraphernalia, such as alarm clocks, car services, online or phone reservations of any kind, programming my GPS, setting the hotel's always impossibly complicated alarm clock, and, yes, understanding a voice-mail message.
The announcement by Scotland Yard marks the latest development in a scandal over revelations that the News of the World intercepted the voice-mail messages of celebrities, politicians and crime victims in pursuit of scoops, a practice known as phone hacking.
But Kate Rawlings, a trainer for talent acquisition firm SearchPath, recommends limited interaction with voice mail and e-mail.
Voice mail, E-mail and the Internet now also link operations.
Among them -- the authority to conduct roving wiretaps, the use of wiretap information from other governments and allowing law enforcement to seize suspected terrorists' voice mail and e-mail with a search warrant.
And once the past was saved, Bell put in place mechanisms to archive new data--indeed every letter, voice mail, word processing document and e-mail.
Today's blazing fast chips make it possible for messages--whether e-mail, voice or video--to zigzag through wide swaths of spectrum without bumping into anyone else's message.
We are now building high-speed wireless data networks around the world, so people will be connected without going back to the office, wherever they take their devices--voice, data and e-mail--in every possible situation.
In February, SNX acquired Link2Support, a provider of voice, e-mail and online chat technical support.
Movies and files of almost any size will be as accessible as voice calls and e-mail are today.
It will give users of midsize, economy, and luxury GM cars and trucks voice access to e-mail, plus information retrieval from the Web.
Meyer created a communications system that works on any telephone network and can be accessed on any mobile handset, PC or landline phone using voice messages, e-mail or SMS text.
Running on the software giant's Windows CE operating system, a stripped-down version of its desktop software, the devices will offer a calendar, address book, memo pad, voice recorder, e-mail and limited web browsing.
And compared to even a year ago, when analysts say most people used smartphones mostly for voice calls and e-mail, an increasing number of users are now surfing the Web, paying bills and doing other activities that open them up to abuses.
Most of us respond to e-mails and voice mail as soon as we have a message.
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