A 1959 Carterfone, photographed from the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History collection, showing the original clear plastic base unit, separate speaker, and connecting cable. Photo by ...

Since the early days of hardware and software, major vendors such as Oracle, Microsoft, Adobe, IBM, SAP, and others have leveraged vendor lock-in as a strategic approach to gain customer advantage.

The Terminal app in macOS keeps track of recent commands you've used so you can reuse them at a later time. Here's how to clear Terminal's command history. When you type commands and press return in ...

Thomas F. Carter, an entrepreneur who won a landmark legal challenge against American Telephone & Telegraph Co., is dead at 67. Carter died Saturday of lung disease. In 1959 Carter patented the ...

Webb Pierce, 69, a country music singer who was ranked by one poll as one of the 10 biggest stars in country music history, died Sunday of pancreatic cancer at a Nashville hospital. The Louisiana-born ...

As tomorrow's FCC net neutrality vote looms, Ars has been sharing as much of our reporting on the topic as possible. And this week, a longtime reader nudged us about this classic on the FCC's ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Despite the never-ending debate on the question of the role of government in America, there’s been a strong ...

“Unbundling” is an interesting word. The first unbundling I ever heard about was the famous Carterfone decision. It forced the unbundling of phones from the original nationwide AT&T phone service.

It is hard to remember, but there was a time when you couldn’t hook much to a telephone line except a telephone. Although landlines are slowly falling out of favor, you can still get corded and ...