We’ve all been there: Someone calls your cell phone and wants to have a long heart-to-heart, so you tell them to call back on a landline to save voice minutes or to get a better signal. Plantronics ...

It's about that time, our 5 phone collection of crappy cordless phones (with answering machine base) needs revisiting. I can probably get new handsets (the 5 are down to 3 working ones now). Cordless ...

VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) is a system for transmitting voice calls over the internet, rather than a phone line.

Editor's note: This segment was rebroadcast on Oct. 22, 2024. Click here for that audio. Landlines, for some, are ancient history. But for others, they’re still part of the present for various reasons ...

For many parents, giving a child their own smartphone is a fraught milestone. But some are finding ways to avoid its pitfalls ...