Don’t be alarmed the next time you call a friend and are greeted by music instead of a dial tone. It’s not a crossed line or a dropped call, it’s a ringback tone, coming soon to a mobile phone near ...

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When was the last time you heard a dial tone? If you’re young enough, you might not even know what a dial tone is. You might not understand that we used to hear a droning buzz whenever we picked up ...

EXCLUSIVE: Seasoned television exec Brandy Crawford-Uriu has joined Celia Aniskovich‘s Dial Tone Films (The Merchants of Joy) as the production company’s new Head of Unscripted and Formats. At Dial ...

He works in mysterious ways.

Bud Fisher’s garage looks like the Dial Tone disco. Disco ball hanging from the ceiling, walls and floor painted with glitter. Enter Kathy Atkinson, a 17-year-old senior at Groton’s Fitch High School ...

What do you do when you want to call and speak to someone? You’ll probably look them up in your list, either in the contacts or in your instant messaging apps, and then call them. What if you want to ...

IN long–distance telephony when messages or signals have to be transmitted simultaneously over wire networks, an error in dialling may result in reaching a group of ...