Mr. Watson, Come Here, I Want You! What was the first telephone call ever like? We received word of a marvelously rare recording from our Quest for Sound phone line and decided to present it on Lost ...

Greetings can be changed using any telephone, or from the Personal Communications Assistant using a desktop computer; However, departmental mailboxes and those assigned to labs and general spaces must ...

Have you ever wondered why "Hello" is the universal word we say when we answer the phone? Though it feels so natural to our daily communication today, the story of "Hello" is, surprisingly, very new ...

Thank Thomas Edison for this uniform phone greeting. If Alexander Graham Bell had his way, we’d all talking like pirates. It’s pure instinct. When our phones ring—after checking caller ID, of ...

Have you noticed that when you call your Gen Z friends, they rarely start with a proper "hello"? This trend is part of a broader shift in communication habits among younger generations, shaped by ...

I place great value in maintaining old friendships and as a result talk regularly with a couple of friends. These conversations often inspire my back in the day columns. A call to one of my closest ...

I suspect that most of us, at one time or another, have felt like answering the phone with the words, “Leave me alone.” Crystal Kwok responds that way several times a day because that’s the name of ...