After all, who has seen a dial phone lately? Sure, there are a few retro phones, but they aren’t in widespread use. It may not be murder, but it turns out that the dial telephone has its roots ...

[Hat tip to Transport Trends] an accident and dial 911 for help. An accelerometer built into a cell phone could detect a violent shock and compare it to other acceleration profiles in a library to ...

In 1963, AT&T introduced Touch-Tone, which allowed phones to use a keypad to dial numbers and make phone calls. Each key would transmit a certain frequency, signaling to the telephone operator ...