The hard part, Shin said, was getting the phone to recognize an incoming message while it was in this slower mode.

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So, an incoming message hit with this pattern analysis will be rejected if it contains a large proportion of the same vocabulary patterns.

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Any man who builds a device with a big red light on it that blinks at you when you have an incoming message needs to be taken seriously.

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When an incoming call or message arrives, it can be received via voice command without even touching the phone.

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Effectively, the machine is checking for news of an incoming call or message briefly once every 15 milliseconds before powering back down, rather than keeping connections to the user's peers constantly open.

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Dutifully, Medvedev said he would relay the message to incoming Russian President Putin.

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In the case of the Mailbox app, the complexity is that we have multiple actions that we might want to take in response to a message in our incoming stream, some of which are immediate and others wich involve deferring immediate action for a later (specified or unspecified) time.

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The message is important to the incoming U.S. president because it signifies that bin Laden is still "out there, " said Tim Roemer, a former Democratic congressman from Indiana who served on both the congressional and the presidential September 11 commissions.

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In doing so, he fails to hear the message over the base public address system warning of incoming fire.

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