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.

For more than 30 years, pieces of Garfield telephones kept washing ashore on the beaches of northwestern France, and no one quite knew why. Where was the lasagna-loving cartoon cat coming from?

Smartphones have come to dominate our consumer life, but in many businesses across the country, there’s still a strong case for that hard plastic handset.

“Just be a little bit more well-versed,” he began. “Not having to use telephones so much, because I don’t believe in telephones.” He added a paranoid rebuttal to the press, saying ...

Almanac: The silencing of the telephone 02:18. 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 ...

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; ...

Telephones revolutionized how people communicate with one another, and it was only a few years after their invention that West Virginia started to see them implemented.

1955: AT&T start testing push-button telephones; 1963: Bells introduces 10-key push-button telephones; 1963: Canon prototypes first electronic calculator with a luminous display; ...