No dial tone. Ah, we probably just left one of the phones off the hook last night. We’re always doing that to guard nighttime and naptime. Our family and friends hate it, but, hey, in the house of a 3 ...

A new advertising agency has been branded 'evil' for trying to replace the 'ring ring' tones of Android smartphones with ten-second advertisements for established brands. SellARing is trying to entice ...

Phones have come a long way since the old landline days. Our smartphones are light, fast, and have more computing power than NASA used to put a man on the moon.* Some advances came not by adding ...

Telephone dial tones are one aspect of modern life that we take for granted, but there is a history there. Wikipedia offers some interesting reading on the subject. Back in 1954 when Bell Telephone, ...

Before ADSL was introduced around 2000, internet connections were overwhelmingly ``dial-up connections,'' where you dialed your home modem to an access point provided by your provider and connected ...

If your organization is like most, you’re still paying a communications service provider for dial tone lines, typically delivered on copper cable. These are also called POTS lines (Plain Old Telephone ...