A device that allows phone callers to record their messages if the phone is not picked up. AT&T, then a monopoly on all phone service in the U.S., debuted the first answering machine in the early ...

Here's a message for all the comics, lounge acts, poets, telephone philosophers and adorable, stammering preschoolers We can't take it anymore. We're talking about those "delightful" greetings on your ...

For those who grew up with a cell phone in their hand, it might be difficult to imagine a time where the phone wasn’t fully integrated with voicemail. It sounds like a fantastical past, yet at one ...

Apple's implementation of a digital video answering machine, once destined for inclusion in an earlier version of Mac OS X, has been resurrected in a patent filing, suggesting the company may give the ...

If there's one thing Mark Craig never did, it was hit "erase" on his answering machine. "What's an answering machine," you ask? Well, back in the olden days of the nineteen-hundred-and-eighties, they ...

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 ...

Not too many years ago, back when telephone answering machines were rare, callers who reached a machine were either flustered or annoyed when they got a click, a hiss and a mechanical greeting instead ...

Imagine… an answering machine that responds to the sound of your voice. Impossible, you say? Hardly. Able to store 60 messages in its built-in memory, this ...

For those who grew up with a cell phone in their hand, it might be difficult to imagine a time where the phone wasn’t fully integrated with voicemail. It sounds like a fantastical past, yet at one ...