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Audio alibi.


No, you can't believe your ears. Simedia SounderCover lets you add background noise to any incoming or outgoing call. If you're like Buzz, you're forever trying to find a quiet place to make a call, so it might not be immediately obvious why you'd want to add background noise to a call. Turns out, the less honest among us would use the feature to disguise their location. Are you late for work? Traffic noises will convince your boss your tardiness Tardiness
Dagwood

comic strip character; chronically late at the office. [Comics: “Blondie” in Horn, 118]

ten o’clock scholar

schoolboy who habitually arrives late. [Nurs.
 was unavoidable. Desperate to get off the phone with an overly talkative colleague? SounderCover can mimic the sound of a ringing landline Land based. Refers to standard telephone and data communications systems that use in-ground and telephone pole cables in contrast to wireless cellular and satellite services.  phone and, voila voi·là  
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Used to call attention to or express satisfaction with a thing shown or accomplished: Mix the ingredients, chill, and
, "Sorry, gotta got·ta  
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Contraction of got to: I gotta go home. 
 go!"

If you think there's no market for this kind of thing, think again. To overcome concerns that the inability for phone users to lie about their location will inhibit sales of mobile video phones (phones that let callers see each other), Hutchison 3G is researching a video equivalent to background noises. The foreground foreground - (Unix) On a time-sharing system, a task executing in foreground is one able to accept input from and return output to the user in contrast to one running in the background.  image would be of the mobile phone user, but the background would be a static image of the user's choosing, for example, their office. Just make sure there aren't any out-of-date calendars lying around.
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Title Annotation:Mobile Biz Buzz
Author:Hunter, Buzz
Publication:Mobile Business Advisor
Date:May 1, 2004
Words:195
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