In one of the newest wrinkles in telephone technology, computers are helping companies answer the phone when employees are busy. These voice message systems do more than answering machines do. The ...

You’ve got two chances next week for a double bill of two up-and-coming UK artists: The Answering Machine and James Yuill. If Eastbourne one-man-show James Yuill had had better luck with girls, he ...

Samsung Bixby is featuring a new capability on one's smartphone that would allow users to answer calls and talk to colleagues, friends, or family without having to speak. This is with the latest ...

When answering machines first came out, "callers resisted the whole notion of speaking to a machine." It was weird. Why would anyone want to talk to a robotic voice that asked you to "leave your name ...

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 ...

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 ...

This morning I mentioned my telephone answering machine in passing and a colleague reacted as though I had just confessed to still having an 8-track in my car. “You must be the last person on the ...

The first sample that the Chemical Brothers locked down when building their new record, “No Geography,” made its way into the present from the far end of a long-disconnected telephone line. The ...