Landline telephones haven't completely gone away, but many businesses now rely on cell phones, smartphones and digital voice technologies to stay in touch with customers and colleagues.

President Donald Trump declared that he doesn’t “believe in telephones” hours after his company announced that an official Trump-branded smartphone will soon hit the market.

I was always taught to stand outside and wait for the kind person giving me a ride or, at the very least, to keep a sharp eye ...

The Real-Life Mafia Were Just As Wary Of Phones The brief, 20-second scene in Goodfellas begins with a legendary line from Ray Liotta's Henry Hill voiceover: " Paulie hated phones—he wouldn't ...

In today's Miss Manners column, advice columnist Judith Martin responds to the proper protocol when someone is giving you a ...

Until 1976 —when the FCC set the wheels in motion for consumers to purchase their own telephones with the Resale and Shared Use decision—telephone customers didn’t own their home telephones ...

On August 4, 1922, 97 years ago today, America's telephones briefly fell silent. For that was the day Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone (and so much else besides) was buried on ...

Once a fixture in homes and businesses, landline telephones are continuing to disappear at a rapid pace in Florida. A new ...

TELEGRAPHY AND TELEPHONES. Cleveland's connection to the rest of the U.S. by telegraph line was a communications breakthrough essential to the city's commercial and industrial development. During ...

Before dial telephones, we made phone calls through an operator. You picked up the phone, there was no dial tone, and you talked to an operator who placed the call for you. This was the only way ...