Welcome to a new column called Driving Me Nuts. Here we are going to explore the different Linux kernel driver subsystems and try to understand the wide range of different interfaces they provide and ...

In Part I of this article, I briefly mentioned the generic USB driver in the context of getting a USB device to communicate through it easily, with no custom kernel programming. Unfortunately, I ...

The Federal Communications Commission is making big moves to help those with disabilities communicate. In a recent ruling, the FCC determined that it would replace the long-standing teletypewriter ...

On Friday, AT&T submitted a Petition for Rulemaking to the FCC, requesting that the Commission update its rules requiring support for text telephone (TTY) technology. The petition asks the FCC to ...

Bill Machrone over at PCMag writes about the lack of serious, OS-level support for TTY/TDD support in smartphones and PDAs and points out a couple of software options hearing-impaired users can add to ...

A feature of some digital cell phones that makes them compatible with a special TTY text device for those who are deaf or hard of hearing. Without this feature, TTY devices were compatible only with ...