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by Michael Fisher | November 2, 2012 4:33 PMRead OnThe venerable phone number has been around, in some form or another, for over a century. Beginning as short two- or three-digit codes given orally to an operator or entered via turns of a wall telephone's crank, phone numbers have grown to lengthy proportions over a century of exploding growth in person-to-person calling. Today, dialing an old friend (or saving the "digits" of a new friend) in America means entering a string of numbers at least ten digits long. Depending on factors like region and international dialing code, numbers can be even longer. That's a lot of numerals to keep in a ...
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by Michael Fisher | August 6, 2012 12:38 PMRead OnI give out my phone number freely, all over the world. I put it on my Facebook profile. I give it to people I'm only going to talk to once in my life. I throw it in my email signature, on scripts or notebooks I'm using, and on business cards I pass out to all and sundry. And this is my personal phone number I'm talking about, not some office line or a demo phone I tote around for fun. It's a direct link to me. Lets get this out of the way now: no, I'm not putting my digits here in this post, or in the comments. I may be reckless, but I'm not stupid. For most people, treating something as ...
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by Michael Fisher | May 17, 2012 2:37 PMRead OnEarlier this month, Verizon Wireless announced that it was targeting a date sometime in 2013 for delivery of a new service to its customers. The new feature isn't a high-speed data option or device upgrade policy, but something much more mundane or critical, depending on your perspective: an SMS-to-911 backbone. Developed in partnership with TeleCommunication Systems, the system will allow customers in the United States to send SMS text messages to emergency-response call centers. This is something that's been in the works for a very long time, and it makes a lot of sense: I've talked ...
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