Nikki believes that one of the reasons leading to his website being blacklisted was a function that he added to his address list, which simply turned a list of static text into clickable links.

It's the feature that turns phone numbers and addresses into clickable links that can either dial a number or perform a Maps search.

Logically, I expect that my N900's ability to automatically turn URLs and phone numbers in the SMS/IM screens into links that are acted upon probably infringes.

A patent which "turns phone numbers or addresses into clickable links"?

Known as "647", it turns phone numbers or addresses into clickable links.

Web page addresses and e-mail addresses turn into links automatically.

Why a company would have been allowed to apply for a patent for something as blindingly obvious as turning email addresses and numbers into links is beyond me.

Any PlanetPhysics contributor can explicitly create links to other articles, and the Noosphere 1.0 system also automatically turns certain words into links to the defining articles.

The user can explicitly create links to other articles, and the system also automatically turns certain words into links to the defining articles.

What started as an allegation in March that a Somali man was killed by racist soldiers of a Canadian peacekeeping force has turned into a full-scale Defense Department inquiry into links between the military and white supremacists and other right-wing militants.