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The Shock of Facing American Anti-Semitism
  + stars: | 2023-11-16 | by ( Joel Engel | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Wonder Land: Hamas knew that after Oct. 7 the narrative would shift to the isolation of Israel. Each of the others kissed his ring as he went down the line. I, at the end, turned his hand vertically and shook it. His eyes widened. Someone explained that I was Jewish, which delighted him, and for the next hour he directed all his answers to me, regardless of who had posed the questions.
Persons: Mark Kelly, Organizations: Zuma Press, Getty, Oaks, New York, New Locations: Israel, Calif, It’s, Archbishop’s, Naples, New
50 years ago, he made the first cell phone call
  + stars: | 2023-04-03 | by ( Jennifer Korn | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +5 min
“I’m calling you on a cell phone, but a real cell phone, a personal, handheld, portable cell phone,” Cooper, then an engineer at Motorola, said on the phone to Joel Engel, head of AT&T-owned Bell Labs. “I was not surprised that everybody has a cell phone,” Cooper, now 94, told CNN. Today, 97% of Americans own a cell phone of some kind, according to a 2021 study by Pew Research Center. I know there are disadvantages to the cell phone. “Overall, I think the cell phone has changed humanity for the better and that will continue in the future.”
Motorola DynaTAC 8000XThe Motorola DynaTAC 8000x MotorolaMotorola's DynaTAC (Dynamic Adaptive Total Area Coverage) line started with the DynaTAC 8000x which launched in 1984. It cost $3,995 when it was released. The Motorola DynaTAC 8000X was a result of a race between Motorola and Bell Labs. Former Motorola vice president Martin Cooper made the first private call from a mobile phone to Joel Engel, his Bell Labs rival. Source: PCMag, mobilecollectors.net, Insider
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