AS a child one of the first things we learn when talking to other people – in person and on the phone – is how to say “hello.” However, the infamous greeting could have been very different if one ...

Greetings can be changed using any telephone, or from the Personal Communications Assistant using a desktop computer; However, departmental mailboxes and those assigned to labs and general spaces must ...

Thank Thomas Edison for this uniform phone greeting. If Alexander Graham Bell had his way, we’d all talking like pirates. It’s pure instinct. When our phones ring—after checking caller ID, of ...

It's goodbye to "hello", according to a new study into telephone manners showing that the once standard greeting is falling out of favour. Research has found that nearly one-third of adults in the UK ...

A third of young people aged 18 to 24 say they answer their mobile phones with greetings such as "hi", "yo" or "what's up". Seven per cent of UK adults also admitted to screening all their landline ...

Research reveals that a business’s phone greeting can have an impact on whether the caller will want to work with them. Small businesses could be putting off potential customers simply by the their ...

Mr. Watson, Come Here, I Want You! What was the first telephone call ever like? We received word of a marvelously rare recording from our Quest for Sound phone line and decided to present it on Lost ...

CAMP FOSTER, Okinawa — While most servicemembers overseas look forward to holiday phone calls from loved ones back home, only one Marine here can say he received a special greeting straight from ...