voicemail

OpenPhone raises $40M to replace your work phone and office PBX with an app

Pam answering the phone at Dunder Mifflin became one of the most iconic refrains from “The Office,” and it’s really no wonder that it did: Businesses big and small have long run on c

Yac gets backed by Slack to bring the intimacy of voice back when remote co-workers interact

Yac, the digital voice messaging service that launched last year, has raised new money from the Slack Fund as it continues to gain ground among companies looking to give their employees new communicat

Yac is reinventing voicemail for the Slack generation

With distributed workforces all the rage in the tech community these days, startups are trying to build new tools to keep those teams connected and communicating in the ways that make folks most comfo

Robocaller firm Stratics Networks exposed millions of call recordings

If you’ve ever had a voicemail appear out of nowhere, there’s a good chance Stratics Networks was involved. The Toronto-based company is the self-proclaimed inventor of “ringless voi

No More Voicemail is an app that kills voicemail so callers have to text you instead

Voicemail is so last century. The idea of phoning someone then leaving a rambling message when they don't pick up seems decidedly antiquated in the age of instant connectivity, where friends, family,

Apple Patents Live Voicemail Screening, Would Let Users Pick Up And Answer Mid-Message

Apple has a new patent published by the USPTO today (via AppleInsider), and this one is a result of its deal to acquire Nortel’s considerable trove of intellectual property with the Rockstar con

Palm Pre will be blind: no Visual Voicemail upon launch

Well, Twitter has become the pinnacle of gossip, grapevine chatter, and frankly, just good ol’ breaking news.  Yesterday, Palm made a very subjective statement through the company’s Twitt

Voicemail is dead

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/phps8ozxzjpg.jpeg"><a HREF="http://slate.com/id/2217998">Farhad Manjoo</a> at Slate makes a good point: voicemail, the clunky old process

Kodak taking cost cutting to the extreme

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/axe.jpg" alt="axe" /><a href="http://www.crunchgear.com/tag/Kodak/">Kodak</a> must not be doing so well. As part of a cust cutting move,

My voicemail box is full! So what?

[photopress:10_voicemail.gif,full,center] Right now, I’m using a phone from Helio as my main phone. It’s no secret that we like what those guys are doing — they make full-featured ph

AllTell to offer Voice2TXT transcription service

Visual voicemail, visual shmoisemail. Alltell wireless just launched Voice2TXT using SpinVox to transcribe users’ voicemail messages to text, ensuring that a simple message (“Pick me up at

'YouMail' lets you assign multiple voicemail greetings

I’d like to declare that the Mac vs. PC shtick is old and tired. If you’re releasing a new product, please refrain from spoofing those ads. That is all. YouMail lets you assign customized

Hey Jealousy: SimulSays Provides Apple-Like Visual Voicemail for Non-iPhone Users

Hot on the heels of the iPhone’s release comes SimulScribe’s SimulSays Beta, available for Blackberry owners (8800 series, Pearl, and Curve) and Windows Mobile users. SimulSays is a visual

CallWave Mobile Widget: My New Best Friend

I dislike listening to my voice-mail almost as much as I dislike answering my cell phone in the first place. CallWave Mobile allows me to monitor my messages via e-mail, and now thanks to a Widget for

SpinVox Spins to the States

to note that SpinVox is now launching within our borders. He’s been using the service since December and seems to be mighty pleased with it. Whenever you receive a voicemail, SpinVox converts th