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Multiple cell phones

My driver was fielding calls on three cell phones, two of which were "walkie talkie" type (push-to-talk, or PTT, the "Mike" service in Canada). According to my friend at Cisco, this is an innovation born out of declining business in the taxi ranks; the taxi drivers have formed a cooperative in which their cell number is added to a "hunt group" and if a regular customer calls them, and he is unable to take the call, the call is routed immediately to another member of the cooperative. Clever fellows, these taxi drivers.
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Jamming

I was interviewed by Jill Bennet for CKNW this morning. It was pre-recorded, and I slept through the live version, but I managed to grab the audio for the segment from their archive (Audio Vault http://www.cknw.com/StationShared/AudioVault.aspx). Go to the April 4, 7am block, it is right off the top. Or, you can listen right here...


  
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Magnification

Saw someone on the train today with a magnification glass trying to read her cell phone.
 
I wonder why she couldn't enlarge the font?

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