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VOICE MAIL

Specialty Definition: VOICE MAIL

DomainDefinition

Computing

Voice mail Any system for sending, storing and retrieving audio messages, like a telephone answering machine. A voice mailbox is typically associated with a telephone number or extension. When the number is called and the line is busy or not answered, the caller hears a message left by the owner and is given instructions for leaving a message or other available options, such as paging the individual or being transferred to an operator. The owner of a mailbox can change the outgoing message or listen to incoming messages after entering a PIN. Members of a voice mail system can generally forward or broadcast messages to other members' boxes. The experience of two people trying to reach other by telephone but always reaching each other's voice mail is referred to as "(tele)phone tag". (1996-11-03). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: VOICE MAIL

Specialty definitions using "VOICE MAIL": digital dashboardInteractive Voice ResponseMessaging Application Programming Interface, Motorola cellular message center, Motorola cellular message centrephone mailTelephony Application Programming Interface. (references)

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Commercial Usage: VOICE MAIL

DomainTitle

References

  • Voice Mail Systems in Saudi Arabia: A Strategic Entry Report, 1997 (reference)

    (more reference examples)

  

Books

  • 10-Hour Series: Telephone & Voice Mail (reference)

  • Getting Even With the Answering Machine and Voice Mail (reference)

  • Telephone & Voice Mail 10-Hour Series: Student Text, Softcover (reference)

  • The Voice Mail Reference Manual and Buyer's Guide/Book and IBM 5 1/4 Disk (reference)

  • Voice Mail (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Music

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: VOICE MAIL

Computer Images:
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Non-Fiction Usage: VOICE MAIL

SubjectTopicQuote

Business

In the past, strategies to generate new business were based on familiar variables such as cost-per-minute, free voice mail retrieval and signal coverage. (references)

The integration of computer technologies into phone services such as the integration of voice mail and e-mail systems with a standard platform (Unified Messaging) opens up far-reaching opportunities for enhanced services. (references)

Today the value-added telecommunication services in Lithuania include Internet access, voice mail, Short Message Service (SMS), caller ID and double line services, but the demand for services such as video-conferencing, WAP, ISDN, and e-commerce are emerging rapidly. (references)

Economic History

Nigeria

Services such as internet café, voice mail, prepaid calling cards are exploding in Nigeria. (references)

Vietnam

Value-added products, such as billing systems and voice mail, also have significant potential. (references)

Morocco

The national telecommunications network offers a range of services including cellular, paging, video conferencing, voice mail and Internet. (references)

Political Economy

PAKISTAN

Under the WTO Agreement on Basic Telecommunications Services, Pakistan made commitments to provide market access and national treatment for all local, domestic long distance and international basic voice telecommunications services and private leased circuit services as of January 1, 2004. E-mail, Internet, electronic information services, data communication network services, trunk radio services, cellular mobile telephone services, audiotex, voice mail and card-pay services, close user group for banking operations, international satellite operators for domestic data communication, paging services, vehicle tracking system and global mobile personal communication systems are now open for 100 percent foreign ownership at the onset of the investment, which has to be reduced to 60 percent within five years. (references)

Travel

Haiti

The largest hotels offer a full range of business services, including Internet connectivity, voice mail, e-mail, etc. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: VOICE MAIL

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

voice mail

1,510

audix voice mail

35

free voice mail

441

verizon voice mail

31

voice mail message

243

office phone and voice mail system

28

voice mail greeting

232

norstar voice mail

28

funny voice mail message

149

alchemy voice mail pro

24

voice mail system

142

voice mail recording

23

funny voice mail

137

free internet voice mail

21

voice mail broadcasting

122

cell phone voice mail

21

toll free voice mail

117

cingular voice mail

20

voice mail software

102

free voice mail service

19

voice mail service

95

free voice mail services

19

voice mail services

94

online voice mail

18

800 voice mail

90

american voice mail

17

celebrity voice mail

62

voice mail to email

17

internet voice mail

52

phone voice mail

15

soho voice mail

50

free voice mail box

13

phone system with voice mail

50

comedy voice mail

13

free voice mail message

50

business voice mail

13

funny voice mail greeting

45

fax and voice mail

13

voice mail box

39

at t voice mail

12
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: VOICE MAIL

Language Translations for "VOICE MAIL"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

talebaseret elektronisk post. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

spraakcommunicatie. (various references)

   

French

  

courrier vocal. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

φωνητικό ταχυδρομείο. (various references)

   

Italian

  

posta vocale. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

ボール螺子 (ball screw, baud rate, boa, boar, boiler, bolo, bonehead, bore, born, boyar, boycott, voice, voice mail box, voice recorder, voyager). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

ボイスメールボックス (voice mail box). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

oicevay ailmay

   

Portuguese

  

correio vocal, correio de voz. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

речевая почта, автоответчик (answerback dram, answerphone). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

fonobuzón, correo vocal. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: VOICE MAIL

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-e-i-i-l-m-o-v"

-2 letters: vomicae.

-3 letters: alcove, clivia, coeval, malice, vomica.

-4 letters: aioli, alive, amice, amici, amole, calve, camel, cameo, cavie, cavil, celom, cilia, civie, civil, claim, clave, clavi, clime, clove, comae, comal, email, ileac, iliac, laevo, macle, maile, malic, mavie, melic, milia, movie, oleic, olive, viola, vocal, voice, voila, voile.

-5 letters: acme, alec, alme, aloe, amie, calm.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-e-i-i-l-m-o-v"
 

+3 letters: overclaiming.

 

+4 letters: vermiculation.

 

+5 letters: vermiculations.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Images: Slideshow
4. Quotations: Non-fiction
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Anagrams
8. Bibliography


  

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