BUFFALO, N.Y. (WKBW) — The Buffalo Public School District will likely take its transportation problems into the new year. The district, its teacher's union, and parents are failing to agree on a ...

Ever been shopping at Trader Joe’s and wondered what all that bell-ringing at the cash registers was about? You’re not alone. In a recent episode of the “Inside Trader Joe’s” podcast, employees ...

Before AT&T was broken up in 1984 by court order, the Bell System referred to AT&T and all the Bell Telephone companies that were part of it, but had separate names to provide a regional flavor. The ...

Five local students, four from Harvard and one from M.I.T., spent eight months making long distance and international phone calls as guests of the Bell System before they were finally discovered. The ...

On Tuesday, Google premiered its new, cheerier, and more versatile logo. A day later, Verizon unveiled its own logo revision, which is slightly less awful than the old one. Perhaps inspired by these ...

During a study of evolving telephone designs for our new book, my coauthor Russell A. Flinchum and I came across two of Pratt’s distinguished alumni who had connections to the Bell Telephone System.

Congress is a lot like high school. That’s true. Right down to the bells that signal class. Like nearly every school, my high school had a bell system. An over modulated, tone would bleat through ...

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