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| | telephone - Columbia Encyclopedia article about telephone |
 | | The disadvantages are the inferior sound quality on dialup connections and, in some cases, the need to have computers that are running the same program and the need to establish a connection between those computers. | | | If a connection is established with another computer, the second program decompresses the digital signals and plays the sound almost instantaneously. | | | The latest generation of switches have made a number of new features possible. |
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http://columbia.thefreedictionary.com/telephone
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| | 610 (telephone) - encyclopedia article about 610 (telephone). |
| | In locations where telephone and computer data access points are shared with a common patch panel, an RJ-45 wall socket is used with a RJ-11/RJ-45 adapter. | | | Most telephones operate through transmission of electric signals over a complex telephone network which allows almost any phone user to communicate with almost any other. | | | RJ-11 (or RJ11) is a physical interface often used for terminating telephone wires. |
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http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/610+(telephone)
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| | Telephone - definition of Telephone in Encyclopedia |
| | When a handset gets too far from a cell-site, a computer system commands the handset and a closer cell-site to take up the communications on a different channel without interrupting the call. | | | The very earliest telephones were mechanical devices based on sound transportation through air or other physical media rather than electrical devices depending on electro-magnetic signals. | | | The telephone or phone is a telecommunications device that transmits speech by means of electric signals. |
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http://encyclopedia.laborlawtalk.com/Telephone
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| | Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Telephone directory |
| | Printed reverse directories have become less common with the availability of telephone databases on CD-ROM and on the Internet with advanced searching features. | | | A telephone directory may also be called a phone book or may be known by the colour of the paper it is printed on. | | | In addition, some telephone companies have made the information generally available through little known services, such as the "2080 service" in Chicago (now discontinued), where a call to the exchange and the number 2080 produced an operator who would give the name and address of any other number in that exchange. |
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| | CNN.com - Egyptologists launching online encyclopedia - Apr 27, 2006 |
| | Meanwhile, her students at UCLA were doing research for papers on the Internet, and being led astray. | | | The UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology, which will go online in 2008, will be peer-reviewed and will update when there are new discoveries, Wendrich said. | | | "The Web has a lot of wonderful information, and a lot of horrible information," she told Reuters in a telephone interview Thursday. |
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