During the night, a phone company technician had deadened the bells and installed red blinkers on the phones.

yes, they had let some reporters use their phone, but they would no longer.

When the telephone rang on the day after Hino went down to the village, Rector had a hunch it would be Hino with some morsel of information too important to wait until his return, for there were few telephones in the village and the phone in Rector's office rarely rang unless it was important.

Under the circumstances, I had difficulty keeping up with the conversation on the phone, but when I hung up I was reasonably certain that Francesca had wanted to remind me of our town meeting the next evening, and how important it was that Hank and I be there.

Several days after the companies had received the questionnaire, members of the research team contacted the presidents of eleven of these companies in person or by phone to discuss any ambiguities or difficulties the addressees might have experienced in completing the questionnaire.

There was even a bare chance that the phone had not been disconnected.

Mr. Thom had gotten Wally on the phone, and fired him.

This was essentially a replacement for Apple's connector that had conventional phone jacks instead of Apple's round connectors.

She testified that after leaving the EEOC, she had had two " inconsequential " phone conversations with Thomas, and had seen him personally on two occasions ; once to get a job reference and the second time when he made a public appearance in Oklahoma where she was teaching.

The person could then input that data into the Oki 900 phone and reboot it, after which the phone network could not distinguish the Oki from the original phone whose signal had been received.

This gave the cloner, through the Oki phone, the ability to use the mobile phone service of the legitimate subscriber whose phone was cloned just as if that phone had been physically stolen instead, except that the subscriber was not without his or her phone and was not aware that the phone had been cloned — at least until that subscriber received his or her next bill.

Haley made a succession of bizarre, mostly monologue late-night phone calls to friends and relatives in which he seemed incoherently drunk or ill. Haley's first wife has been quoted as saying, " He would call and ramble and dwell on the past, his mind was really warped.

That solution is still alive and proposed by Fastap and Unitap among others, and a commercial phone has been produced and promoted in Canada during 2006.

For example, there have been a number of epidemiological studies of looking for a relationship between cell phone use and brain cancer development, which have been largely inconclusive, save to demonstrate that the effect, if it exists, cannot be a large one.

Greenpeace activists have also been targets of phone tapping, death threats, violence and even state terrorism in the case of bombing of the Rainbow Warrior.

The mobile phone network operated by Manx Telecom has been used by O < sub > 2 </ sub > as an environment for developing and testing new products and services prior to wider rollout.

In Europe, and in Germany in particular, ISDN has been successfully marketed as a phone with features, as opposed to a POTS phone with few or no features.

Immediately after, the man and the phone booth are shot in half by offscreen gunfire and the operator says, " I'm sorry, you've been disconnected .".

The TeleZapper is a device designed to reduce the number of telemarketing-related phone calls a household receives by imitating the tone signal normally played by a phone company to indicate a line has been disconnected.

The phone at Litvinov's dacha was disconnected and, the following morning, Molotov, Georgii Malenkov, and Lavrenty Beria arrived at the commissariat to inform Litvinov of his dismissal.

Simoneaux attempted to call his mother at Corll's residence before the phone was disconnected.

The two had previously been given notices for not paying the rent on the apartment, and the phone had been disconnected.

The wiring system heavily employed point to point wires terminated with crimped U-lugs and slotted screw terminals ; most electrical connections in the phone could be disconnected or reconnected in seconds with just a slotted screwdriver.

The saboteurs arrive in New York City, only to find the phone at their office disconnected, a sign the police are on to them.

In attempts to save the show, the executives decide to introduce Squiggy from Laverne & Shirley into the household, since he is the biggest 1970s television star whose phone has not been disconnected.

This will often cause the phone to crash as the two units are disconnected and music files are often not recognised despite being loaded into the phone's hard drive.

The broadcast provoked tens of thousands of letters, telegrams and phone calls to CBS headquarters, running 15 to 1 in favor of Murrow.

It may take the form of letters, telegrams, phone calls, petitions, law-suits, speeches and Bills before Congress and other modes of complaint, threat and punitive action '.

A huge majority of the millions of telegrams and phone calls received by the RNC and other political offices supported Nixon.

By this time, the first wave of what would eventually be more than four million letters, telegrams, postcards, and phone calls had flooded into RNC headquarters and other political offices.

`` I could scratch her eyes out '', Eileen cried and stamped her foot when I came back from the phone booth.

Rourke was talking on the phone when he came back.

It interacted via wireless transmitters in rooms and with equipment in the area to remember who was there, who was being talked to on the telephone, and what objects were in the room, allowing queries like " Who came by my office while I was on the phone to Mark?

The major boom in smart card use came in the 1990s, with the introduction of smart-card-based SIMs used in GSM mobile phone equipment in Europe.

With Mobile 6 also came Microsoft's new naming conventions and devices were no longer called Pocket PCs: devices with no phone abilities were named Windows Mobile Classic, and devices with phone abilities were named Windows Mobile Professional.

The digital GSM system came into use in 1993 ; the GSM standard was developed in Norway by the Norwegian University of Science and Technology ( NTNU ), but no mobile phone manufacturers emerged in the country.

At first her friend thought Karen was only joking until one of the bank robbers came up behind Karen, put a gun to her back and told her to immediately hang up the phone.

Indeed, until the ability to dial a phone number came into widespread use in the 1950s ( it had existed in limited form since the 1920s ), telephone users could not place calls without operator assistance.

Haughey's leadership came under scrutiny for a third time when a report linked Haughey with the phone tapping of political journalists.

As part of its marketing strategy, Miss World came up with a " You Decide " television special during that edition, featuring the delegates behind the scenes and on the beach, and allowing viewers to either phone in or vote online for their favourites.

Rudess was on the phone with Roland for most of the time, and finally realized the keyboard was unfixable in that time, so he came onstage and took Petrucci's guitar to jam with the band.

The virus came complete with the brothers ' address and three phone numbers, and a message that told the user that their machine was infected and to call them for inoculation:

The next significant upgrade came in 1937 with the introduction of the " 302 " phone.

With multiple teams having trouble making offseason payments, the league was under threat of folding until Dan Borislow, owner of the phone service magicJack, came in to buy the Freedom.

The title of the track came from an experience the Johns had when they found a huge number of Ng listings in the New York City phone book.

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In July 2011, in the wake of the News International phone hacking scandal, Ofcom came under pressure to launch an inquiry into whether the parent company of News International, News Corporation, was still the " fit and proper " owner of a controlling stake in the satellite broadcasting company British Sky Broadcasting ( BSkyB ).

The 1983 Ruggiero indictment came from phone conversations that Federal agents had recorded on Gotti's phone.

When the Liebert twins came in, he hands Tenma his phone when Director Heinemann orders Tenma to treat Mayor Roedecker first.

A phone ring can be heard at approximately 2: 56 in " Steven's Last Night in Town ;" Ben Folds has said the ring was a friend calling from Minnesota, but it came at such a perfect timing, the band decided to leave it in the song.

When, in 2006, the Bush administration came under fire for having secretly collected billions of phone call details from regular Americans, ostensibly to check for calls to terror suspects, the Pen Register Act was cited, along with the Stored Communications Act, as example of how such domestic spying violated Federal law.

The game also has option to allow the user be notified via cell phone text message if their units came under attack.