Sentences with phrase «of phoning home»

The Nook is obviously capable of phoning home in a similar manner, but it's unknown whether or not it does, at least for now.

So when the wonderful folks at ION LANDS sent me a review copy of PHONING HOME — suffice to say, I was pretty excited!

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One of a number of reasons I stayed out of my business offices and worked at home as much as possible was because when I went to the office, I was «drawn» to listen in on, interfere with or critique every phone call, look at every fax, poke my nose all the way into everything — to the extent that I ruined everybody else's productivity as well as my own.

In Canada, Deloitte recently conducted a phone survey of 768 Ontario and Quebec home and car insurance policyholders, asking if they would be interested in a device that tracks their driving behaviour.

«On the ride home, we get a phone call from Paul Graham to inform us that he'd like to offer us a spot in the Y Combinator program, and we later found out that the reason wasn't because of our idea,» said Gebbia.

The nationwide goal means Verizon will be expanding well beyond the largely northeastern footprint of its current Fios wired home Internet, TV, and phone offering.

An ideal password is not your home address, your phone number or your wife's birthday, but rather a completely random set of numbers, letters and symbols that hackers won't be able to guess.

Look at the home screen of your phone and you'll probably see a ton of blue — Facebook, LinkedIn, Skype, all blue.

Although my home - office setup may not be as turbocharged as Scott Adams's dream office (see» A World of His Own,»), I have all the basics that a journalist needs: a computer, a phone, and Internet access.

Think of Amazon Alexa, Google Home and Assistant directed by voice recognition that's powered by smart, conversational Artificial Intelligence - and most of these will be a new class of devices scattered around your house, not just on your phone.

About a month after national advertising agency buyCalls contracted out a phone marketing campaign for a home - security client, it noticed a major discrepancy between the performance of its call - center vendors in North Carolina and Indiana.

Everything is run through a lone «intentions» bar on the home screen, which gets you to all of the phone's features but is designed to keep you from multitasking.

Employees can now work from the comfort of their homes using laptops, tablets, and mobile phones.

The Office of the Director of National Intelligence, in a recent awareness campaign, advised some more drastic steps, including leaving devices at home and even considering carrying a burner phone, which doesn't contain personal data or secure information.

The BLS» housing category includes an array of expenses (housekeeping, daycare, furniture, cell phone and internet plans), but the bulk of the money goes toward paying rent or costs related to owning a home, such as the monthly mortgage and property taxes.

Thousands of phones, tablets, computers, smart home gadgets, and accessories are on sale right now.

Shared spaces like these offer the benefits of an office — phones, wifi, coffee machines, actual human beings to talk to — without the downsides of a home arrangement.

Yet, in the near future, there's no reason you couldn't skip the phone altogether and use earbuds as your primary form of communication throughout the day, using a laptop for real work or speaking to voicebots at home and in the office.

South Korea is, of course, home to Samsung and it's no exaggeration to say that just about the entire population uses the company's phones.

I have two people working out of their homes in California, and you would never know because we do everything on the phone together.

«I've long been a firm believer that despite the fact that you can watch movies on your phone, iPad or home theater, every once in a while you still want to get out of the house,» League told the Austin American - Statesman.

Eager Japanese rushed to their phones on Friday to start hunting as Pokemon GO, the hit Nintendo - backed smartphone game, finally launched in Japan, home of the colorful cartoon characters.

Despite a rapidly developing economy in Kenya, widespread use of cell phones, and the home to one of the most successful mobile payment systems in the world, more than three quarters of Kenyans don't have regular access to electricity.

It runs the same Google Assistant software that the original Google Home and Google Pixel phones use, meaning it personalizes answers to many of your questions.

I got phubbed a time or two during my weekend - long experiment of leaving my phone at home.

So instead of charging a smartphone, running it down to 10 percent power, and then heading home in a panic to plug it in, users would connect the phone to a baby stroller or a rolling suitcase, charging the phone as they pushed or pulled.

And what about the millions of millennials who grew up with video games on everything from school computers to cell phones to game consoles at home?

Set up headquarters at home (that is, a corner of your bedroom or kitchen with a computer and your cell phone).

But he added that thinking in terms of incremental changes may miss a larger point: As wearables and home devices become more important to the way we use our phones, the design of the phone itself may become less critical.

«Home» comes amid rapid growth in the number of people who access Facebook from phones and tablet computers.

The Home service gives Facebook a chance to take control of the main screen of every phone running on Android, the leading mobile operating system.

All sorts of social action apps have already sprung up, including Berlin - based «Refugees Welcome,» which has helped dozens of German citizens invite refugees into their homes, as well as «Mobile Justice,» an app related to the #BlackLivesMatter movement and giving users the ability to zap video footage from a phone directly to the American Civil Liberties Union.

(See The Curse of Microsoft Excel) I remember long arguments with clients in one of my first businesses, where we tracked customer satisfaction by making millions of phone calls each year to consumers at home to determine how satisfied they had been with a recent experience.

Recognizing that text messaging is one of the most important tasks on a mobile phone, Facebook programmed Home to include a feature called «chat heads.»

This required disconnecting from work (e.g. turning off the computer and phone), and completely focusing all of my attention on the details of the home.

By allowing immigrants to send small gifts of cell - phone minutes to relatives back home, Jain's company «solves two problems that most immigrants have,» Jain says.

If you're a real estate broker, you could send an alert to the cell phones of house - hunters who happen to be within a mile of on - the - market homes that meet their criteria.

Additionally, all phone calls made from Google Home to conventional landline phones will be free, said Rishi Chandra, Google vice president of product management of its Home products.

It currently uses such technologies to allow shoppers to customize products on their phone or computer and then visualize them in their own home with a headset, and to offer in - game purchases of physical products.

Ahmed Khattak, founder of GSM Nation When Khattak arrived in the U.S. as a college student, he was frustrated that he couldn't call home without signing a two - year mobile - phone contract.

Among those hoping to claim a piece of your cell phone bill, with services ranging from integrated home wireless voice mailboxes to bundled international long - distance and translation services, are

By 2020, realtors were working for minimum wage due to phone apps equipped with special codes and the standard installation of cameras in homes.

Instead of your home phone number (assuming you still have one), use your mobile number.

Lacavera still owns Toronto - based Globalive telecom company, which provides high - speed Internet and home phone service to consumers and a variety of telecom services to small business.

«I had a home phone, but I always answered it with the name of my company.

Besides the price of the air tickets and hotel, two of the most expensive aspects of international travel are phone and data connections that you take for granted at home.

When Freitas sat down to talk to young people about their phones, she heard some pretty crazy stories of raging tech addiction, from the girl who gave her phone a name and talked about it like a friend to the boy who claimed he'd rather leave his brain at home than his precious device.

Its home button is on the back of the phone, making for a perfectly flat, smooth front surface.

The company's hardware business also started gaining traction after Google released a pair of high - profile hardware products last year - the Pixel phone and the Google Home, a smart speaker like Amazon's Echo.

You probably don't give it much thought, but your router is one of the most important gadgets in your home — without it there's no wi - fi for your laptops, your phones, and all the other web - connected devices you've got set up.