No, that wasn't actor W.C. Fields answering anyone's phone in 1980. (He'd been dead since 1946.) But "Phonies" brought him back to life, or made for a convincing copy of him, on a series of tapes that ...

A TELEPHONE answer-machine message which is said to be a stabbing victim's final moments was played to a murder trial jury yesterday. The recording was a voice-mail received by Terry Atkinson, a ...

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 ...

Though the technology for recording telephone conversations was invented in the late 1800s, the first automatic answering machine was not patented until 1935. The Swiss inventor Willy Müller developed ...