Buying Guides & Articles:More Phones and Communication

Though a newcomer to wireless handsets, Apple jolted the telecom world in 2007 with its revolutionary iPhone, an AT&T exclusive, which provides superb ease of use via a... Read more

The major national cellular service providers are Alltel, AT&T, Sprint Nextel, T-Mobile, and Verizon Wireless. There are also many local or regional providers... Read more

Which cell-phone service provider is the best? It depends on where you live. We rate cell-phone service based on the tens of thousands of responses to our annual survey... Read more

I was updating my list of wireless-related conferences, and here’s a short list of some conferences to consider attending that relate (in some way) to the use of... Read more

Easy setup and installation in under five minutes: just connect your phone to the VoIP phone adapter, connect the adapter to your computer and you're ready to go... Read more

On February 18, 2008, the aAnalog to Digital Transitiona FCC directive will go into effect. This means that all of the telephone companies will shut down their analog... Read more

Bill Detwiler, Shawn Morton, and I scoured the halls of the 2008 Consumer Electronics Show last week in Las Vegas. We looked for the hardware and software that could... Read more

Video conferencing makes it possible for people to have face-to-face meetings when they're in fact separated by a vast distance... Read more

To send caller ID information you your home, the phone company uses an FSK technique identical to a 1,200 baud modem and it sends ASCII character data to the caller ID... Read more

The Skype application looks and works a lot like an instant messaging(IM) client. As with an IM client, you can change your online status, look at your contact list and... Read more