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...Mobile-phone texting has evolved into an essential form of communication - a brief e-mail on the run. But for those who find texting cumbersome, a quicker solution[an error occurred while processing this directive] has arrived. Woburn, Massachusetts-based VoiceSignal has created VoiceMode, which allows mobile-phone users "to say it, see it and send it." It takes approximately one minute and 75 taps of tiny keys to create and send this text message: "Leave tix at box office - running late." Dictate the same text with a VoiceMode-enabled phone in seconds...
...Reed and Levin tied themselves up in policy knots with their amendment, at least they can say they didn't do it in the service of their own Presidential ambitions. In a phone conversation Monday after rolling out the amendment, Reed called the impulse to run contagious and said he had been "inoculated." Levin, on his way to his Ford Explorer in the Capitol parking, joked that his past decisions not to run for President had been met with cheers. He told TIME he and Reed would not be accepting any Presidential contenders as co-sponsors for their amendment...
...more companies are coming around to Lheem's thinking. Near Hyundai's plant, Nokia opened the first phase of a $150 million mobile-phone factory in March. In the state of Orissa on India's east coast, South Korean steel giant Posco plans to construct a $12 billion mill. SemIndia, a company formed by chip-industry executives, will break ground in June on a $3 billion semiconductor factory in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh. Others are coming around, too. Dell Computer recently announced its intention to build a factory in India, joining those it already has in China...
...kingdom, with a subpar system of telephone landlines, is the land of the cell phone. And not cell phones that were being judiciously discarded and replaced, a technique of the more skilled jihadist operative. Saudis love their "mobiles." That love meant that the sigint was strong...
...ways similar to those that helped China attract foreign investment in manufacturing. India's rising middle class means companies now see the country as an important source of consumer demand. India has joined China as one of Nokia's five largest markets. According to tech-consulting firm Gartner, mobile-phone sales in India grew 42% in 2005 to nearly 30 million units, and sales are expected to quadruple by 2009. With so much potential, Nokia decided India was the best option for a new factory. "We became eager to get closer and closer to India," says Jukka Lehtela, director...