If there's one thing Mark Craig never did, it was hit "erase" on his answering machine. "What's an answering machine," you ask? Well, back in the olden days of the nineteen-hundred-and-eighties, they ...

If your business receives phone calls, use the storage and processing power of your computer to organize your messages. Modern telephony products offer a large number of options for connecting a phone ...

For those who grew up with a cell phone in their hand, it might be difficult to imagine a time where the phone wasn’t fully integrated with voicemail. It sounds like a fantastical past, yet at one ...

One question lingering after Sunday night’s Breaking Bad—why do Walt and Skyler still have that old-fashioned, plot-friendly answering machine? Yes, it’s true that the show is set a few years back in ...

Show me the facts Explain it like I’m 5 Give me a lighthearted recap Last week, I wrote an article laying out my smartphone history, in which I waxed nostalgic about some of the devices and platforms ...

Apple's implementation of a digital video answering machine, once destined for inclusion in an earlier version of Mac OS X, has been resurrected in a patent filing, suggesting the company may give the ...

Joseph J. Zimmermann Jr., 92, who in 1948 invented one of the first telephone answering machines, died March 31 in Brookfield, Wis. The cause of death was not announced. Zimmermann was running his own ...

Artificial intelligence has infiltrated just about every component of the CRM technology stack, and outbound call centers are now starting to benefit from it as well. AI-driven answering machine ...

Note to readers: Much of what follows was drawn from a column first published in 2015: The case can be made that John Lewis’ 33-year career in Congress has its roots in an ill-conceived attempt at ...

A device that allows phone callers to record their messages if the phone is not picked up. AT&T, then a monopoly on all phone service in the U.S., debuted the first answering machine in the early ...