The development of the telephone has a long and complex past, reaching far back before the well-known electromagnetic versions. Earlier mechanical devices could already send speech and music further ...

With the proliferation of email, scheduling phone calls is growing more and more convoluted. About 10 years ago, I wrote an article noting that in the real estate and larger business worlds, people ...

I know that many people communicate by way of a mobile telephone today. In an April 9, 2015 online article by Kara Kovalchik, “10 Aspects of Old Telephones That Might Confuse Younger Readers,” the ...

Though the modern office has been deluged with additional choices in communication with email correspondence, cellular telephones, video conferences and text messaging, the telephone system still ...

Dr. JeFreda R. Brown is a financial consultant, Certified Financial Education Instructor, and researcher who has assisted thousands of clients over a more than two-decade career. She is the CEO of ...

The first telephones were hard enough to use without the added harassment of the teenage boys who worked as the earliest switchboard operators — and who were, per PBS, notoriously rude. It was ...

When Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone, he did more than create an object of amusement. He created a tool that has become the primary means of alerting public safety. In addition to ...