In one of the newest wrinkles in telephone technology, computers are helping companies answer the phone when employees are busy. These voice message systems do more than answering machines do. The ...

Telephone answering machines were almost a fad. They were hindered for years by not being allowed to connect to the phone lines. Then a mix of cell phones and the phone company offering voicemail made ...

In this day and age, you could be forgiven for not knowing that landline phones are even still being made. They are, though, and their designers are attempting to keep them just as high-tech-looking ...

I dunno what happened, but I've been positively inundated with automated telemarketing calls over the last couple of months. <BR><BR>I was going to order a Telebouncer from amazon, essentially a ...

If you`re a person who doesn`t like to talk to an answering machine, you may soon have to move to Zanzibar. The Yankee Group, a market research firm based in Boston, estimates that about 10 percent of ...

Phones are such a large part of our lives that we may not think of them as having any role, one way or another, in our efforts to make ourselves safer from crime. Your telephone is a major conduit of ...