David Politis and Ron Fraser model their new walkie-talkie technology that Fraser developed out of his basement in hopes of improving communication. “We think it will actually make you safer,” Politis ...

The higher-tech device could free up dispatchers for true emergencies—because you’d rather have a person answering 911 calls than looking up license plates. Smartphones are handy devices, but they don ...

Cave drawings, smoke signals, letters, Pony Express, telegrams, phone calls, text messages. From the dawn of civilization, man has experimented with different modes of communication, each with pros ...

The Walkie-Talkie feature of watchOS 5 that enables push-to-talk conversations between Apple Watch users is effectively a FaceTime Audio call rather than recorded audio clips being sent between ...

Dedicated PTT button provides one-touch operation on Kyocera’s DuraForce Ultra 5G and DuraSport 5G smartphones, ideal for frontline workers in construction, manufacturing, healthcare and more. Kyocera ...

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Walkie-talkies have been around since World War II, but the old-style technology finds its uses in the hospitality industry. Basically low-wattage two-way radios, these tools allow workers to keep up ...

Push-to-talk (PTT) technology in South Africa, which gives cellphones a walkie-talkie-type functionality, has moved from a test phase to a tool available to the local corporate and public services ...

One of the hallmarks of Boost Mobile prepaid phones in the early 2000s was their push-to-talk (PTT), or walkie-talkie, feature, which allowed you to play your voice through another Boost Mobile user's ...