2007-04-08 21:09:22 · 0 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Internet
There is often some discussion about who invented voicemail. Invention of a device is normally defined as who first created a viable design for a product and reduced it to practice, not who first had the seed of an idea (since that’s impossible to prove). Beyond invention is the concept of who brought the product to the world most effectively, or, in other words, who was the first to make it commercially viable and widely used. In those terms, voicemail was first invented by IBM (Dr. Steven J. Boies in 1975) and was broadly commercialized by Octel Communications (founded in 1982 by Bob Cohn and Peter Olson). ROLM Corporation (founded in 1969 by Gene Richeson, Ken Oshman, Walter Loewenstern and Robert Maxfield and later owned by IBM before IBM sold it to Siemens) was the first PBX manufacturer to offer integrated voicemail with its PhoneMail system, and also played a major role commercializing voicemail.
2007-04-08 21:27:21 · answer #1 · answered by Adrian 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Who Invented The Voicemail
2017-01-15 03:36:29 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Al Gore?
2007-04-08 21:11:35 · answer #3 · answered by scruffycat 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Jebus, and thats not a typo, I meant Jebus
2007-04-08 21:12:45 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
secretary :)
2007-04-08 21:13:26 · answer #5 · answered by Terence G 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋