Telstra fights regulator over plan to wipe a million square km from its coverage map

Australia’s biggest telco, Telstra, is locked in a fight with the communications regulator over a proposal that would force ...
CNET

150 Years After the First Phone Call, We're Still Looking for 1-on-1 Connections

I spoke to an AT&T archivist about Alexander Graham Bell's famous transmission. Even though calls have changed, the reasons behind them are still the same.
ZDNet

I changed 12 settings on my Android phone to extend its battery life by hours

Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. I've spent a significant portion of my life searching for ways to extend the battery life on my Android phones. Admittedly, that sounds rather ...
Opinion

Americans Didn’t Panic About the Telephone. We Didn’t Need To.

Exactly 150 years ago, Alexander Graham Bell made the world’s first phone call. “Come here,” he shouted into the fuzzy, one-way phone line at his partner Thomas Watson. “I want you!” (He had spilled ...

Happy birthday to the telephone — oh, how you've grown in 150 years!

These days, our phones are basically extensions of our bodies. An MIT historian of science and technology takes us back to Alexander Graham Bell's famous first telephone call on 1876.