Who invented voicemail indiana

That's because Jones, who is 56, is a collector with eclectic interests. Want a T. A Steinway grand piano? He's also got "high-end, original art" and "museum-quality, priceless antiques," but because everything must go, there are even price tags on half-empty bottles of Windex 50 cents , reports IndyStar. The sale runs Sept. Estate sales can turn up stolen masterpieces. Breaking News.

Scott Jones says everything must go. Email This Story. Pop a CD in your computer, and iTunes brings up the track names. That feature comes from another of Jones's companies, Gracenote. When Indiana last year adopted daylight savings time, it was Jones who pushed hardest for the change. The roller coaster at the Indianapolis Zoo? Dinosaur skeletons at the Children's Museum of Indianapolis?

Made possible in part by the Scott A. Jones Foundation. Most folks in the Indianapolis suburb of Carmel pronounced like the candy know their wealthy, energetic neighbor as "the guy who invented voicemail. But he found he wasn't the kind of entrepreneur who could just fly off into the sunset in his helicopter. One hardly ever hears anyone honk their horn, and if one needs to change lanes, people almost always let you in front of them and then the recipient of the favor waves back, even on highways.

It's just different here. It's now jarring to come back to Indiana traffic. Also, Jones added, "we love having three Apple stores here instead of just one. Jones, 56, was a teenager when he moved to Indianapolis with his family in the mids.

He took a job in Boston where he soon invented the technology that made voicemail practical — and made Jones rich. Jones returned to Indianapolis in As he explained in , when the Indiana Historical Society was honoring him by proclaiming him an "Indiana Living Legend," he wanted to give something back to his home state.

As a something tech wunderkind, he cut a wide swath. He lobbied for Indiana's move to daylight saving time, a surprisingly hotly contested transition that he and other business leaders considered critical to aligning Indiana with business interests on the coasts. He pushed for more resources for local tech education and investment and in started a nonprofit computer coding school, Eleven Fifty Academy. He started several businesses here including, in , ChaCha, a question-and-answer service along the lines of Apple's Siri and Google's Now.

ChaCha failed in In the mids, he bought an old mansion on 24 acres in Carmel and began adding on and on and on, in a way that reflected not just his money but his creativity. The result is a 24,square-foot house with the usual fine wood paneling, home theater and also the fantastical indoor spiral slide, at least one secret passageway, retinal scanner for access to master bedroom. In Indianapolis, Jones lived a somewhat public life.