I pull out my cell phone and ask a friend if she knows an all-purpose phone number for homeless assistance.
If you are contacting an organization, ask the receptionist or the general purpose phone line who best to contact for your type of proposal, and how he or she prefers to be contacted.
Today, thanks to the Internet-as-all-purpose-phone-book, it is easier than ever to call your Congress members, by bypassing the switchboard and phoning their offices directly.
The flood of new multi-purpose phones, including Apple's new 3G S iPhone, Verizon's Storm and Palm's Pre, are cannibalizing the market for the likes of Garmin and TomTom, which are in danger of losing their sense of direction.
If such a precedent were to propagate and be adopted by other courts or supported in superior ones, it would be a serious blow against the FBI's ability to use All Writs as an all-purpose phone-opener, as it currently does in dozens of cases.
After all, this is a marketing machine instead of a general purpose mobile phone.
For all practical purposes, the phones might as well be plugged in with cables.
The episode followed Ilana Wexler (Glazer), recently fired from her job at a Internet start-up after a disastrous social media mishap, as she found a new sense of purpose making phone calls for Clinton's presidential campaign. .
I love my iPhone, mind you I'm pretty convinced that the call function doesn't work and seldom make use of it for traditional phone purposes itself but every time somebody texts me, I am reminded that someone thought of me today.
Though Whitehead, the 38-year-old head of business development for Channel 4 television in the U.K., could use the phone for work purposes, he actually deploys it to track his speed, distance and pace with an application known as AllSport GPS.
I paid 20 Meticals (66 cents approximately) to a local community health worker to use his phone for testing purposes.
