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...press a button and tell a live adviser to make hotel reservations or send flowers, thanks to Onstar's Concierge service. Later this year the U.S. company will offer voice-activated cell phone calls and a personalized website, and eventually traffic reports. Mercedes drivers can help themselves to text-based weather, sports and stock updates from U.S. company ATX, watch TV or bark orders to their radio, thanks to Mercedes-Benz's own Linguatronic system. Snarl-up warnings are piped in by German firm Tegaron. Italian on-board telecoms company Viasat foresees its customers shopping or downloading music while stuck...
...ubiquity of multinational brand names, the interdependence of the global economy - all have served to provide young adults with a set of mutual experiences, attitudes and cultural cues. In a Continent where 83% of young West European adults carry mobile phones, this generation's lingua franca is the text message. Europe's nightclubs have made icons out of DJs who spin in different European cities every week, trailed by a transnational community of fans. "There are stronger communions that cut across national identity," says Eric Tong-Cuong, the founder of the French record company Naive. Events like London's Notting...
...company's CEO is Lucie Salhany, founder of UPN and former head of Fox Broadcasting. As its new capabilities kick in, Facemail could become a lot more popular. After all, what grandparent wouldn't prefer e-mail with the voice and image of a grandchild instead of coldly impersonal text...
...imaging--the same technology that creates models of human organs for surgeons to practice on--and used it to create digital faces. Facemail faces are lifelike, in a Max Headroom-ish kind of way, and they simulate emotions based on the emoticons--for example, :-)--that you put in your text. Type in :-X, and Rachel blows a kiss. Type in I-P, and she looks disgusted. The voice reading the e-mail is standard-issue IBM ViaVoice text-to-speech...
...serious blow to the pro-choice groups who mobilized against the site, railing against what they called flagrant invitations to violence against doctors, clinic workers and their families. A mirror version of the original site, which features graphic photographs of dismembered fetuses, is decorated by grisly lines of text dripping with blood, and exhorts visitors to supply the site's manager with any "evidence" of "abortionists' crimes...