Michael Arrington of TechCrunch says voice mail is dead and he wants it to go away, right now. The post and comments are laced with typical tech-media overstatement, straw men and sweeping ...

With the rise of e-mail and instant text messaging, the communications workhorse of the past 30 years - voice mail - is finding itself increasingly unloved and avoided. But new speech-recognition and ...

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As our lives get busier and we become more reliant on text messages and e-mail, voice mail is starting to seem a tad archaic (not to mention impractical if you're sitting in a business meeting or loud ...

Google has begun testing a service that will make transcripts of voice-mail messages and make them searchable. For now, Google will only offer voice-mail transcription to existing customers of ...

A security analyst has devised a way to capture Visual Voice Mail (VVM) credentials on Android devices and then remotely listen to voicemail messages without the victim's knowledge. The security ...

Voicemail is a convenient feature that allows you to receive messages from callers when you are unavailable or busy. However, some people may find voicemail annoying, unnecessary, or expensive. If you ...

The Cisco Systems Foundation, in San Jose, Calif., has awarded a five-year, $2.5-million grant to Community Voice Mail, a charity in Seattle that works with social-service organizations in 37 cities ...

In a typical Web voice mail service, your messages are stored online and you access them through a Web page. Your voice mails are arranged within a user interface like that of a webmail in-box. To ...

Mobile service providers AT&T Inc. and T-Mobile have been banned from saying that their voice-mail systems are safe from sabotage after agreeing to permanent injunctions filed in a Los Angeles court.

Google has begun testing a service that will make transcripts of voice-mail messages and make them searchable. For now, Google will only offer voice-mail transcription to existing customers of ...