States try to silence robo-calls
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The Clinton campaign has complained about them. So has Mitt Romney. Plenty of voters have vented, too. Those sometimes nasty and annoying recorded political phone calls known as "robo-calls" can drive people nuts Â and states are trying to crack down on them.
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In an effort to stop scams that cause unwitting Internet users to get charged premium rates for calls placed by software surreptitiously installed on their PCs, Ireland is going to block outgoing calls to 13 ...
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Ring, Ring. Someone answer the computer. Voice-over-Internet Protocol got a boost today as The Federal Communications Commission ruled that providers of the service are exempt from some major state regulations
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Some states have enacted or are considering bans on driving while holding a cellphone, but studies have shown that hands-free and hand-held cellphones are equally distracting.
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ROUND ROCK, Texas - Police in this Austin suburb were stumped for hours by the 49 emergency calls that kept coming in from an unregistered cell phone. The caller would say nothing before hanging up, sometimes after a brief giggle.
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School officials in Harford County, Maryland, are using a robo-dialing service that automatically calls students' homes and plays a prerecorded message if a snowstorm closes schools. By the Associated Press.
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Authorities in Singapore shut down a large network of around 10,000 robot, or "zombie," computers this week, after technicians at Norwegian Internet service provider (ISP) Telenor ASA stumbled on the illicit network by tracing Internet Relay Chat (IRC) communications from compromised customer PCs on its system.
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All 50 states and the District of Columbia yesterday urged the Supreme Court to overturn lower court rulings that they said would give federal authorities the ability to block states from prosecuting financial institutions for predatory lending practices.
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SUPREME COURT The Supreme Court is refusing to hear a challenge to the federal do-not-call telephone registry. Telemarketers have been trying to invoke free-speech rights to do away with the ban on unwanted phone solicitations.
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The Justice Department begins a nationwide crackdown against spammers. Also: The EU extends its review of Microsoft's deal with Time Warner & hellip;. Sprint finds a third cable partner to offer VoIP & hellip;. and more.
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As Governor Deval Patrick pushes the Legislature to eliminate what he calls an outdated "tax loophole" for telecommunications companies, a state board is slowly stripping away some companies' ability to take advantage of the exemption.
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Telemarketers will be able to use  prerecorded "robo calls" to stay in touch with established  customers starting next week -- at least for the short term,  U.S. regulators said Friday.
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The jarring polychromatic din of ringing cell phones is increasingly being thwarted - from religious sanctuaries to India's parliament to Tokyo theaters and commuter trains - by devices originally developed to help security forces avert eavesdropping and thwart phone-triggered bombings.
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Techniques designed to make suspects incriminate themselves through calls or texts
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Cell phone can respond to motion by dialing numbers or ending a call.
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The Supreme Court turned away a challenge Monday to the federal do-not-call registry, ending telemarketers' bid to invoke free-speech arguments to get the popular ban on unwanted phone solicitations thrown out.
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Cell phone owners currently enjoy a kind of privacy through obscurity: Wireless numbers aren&#39;t listed with directory assistance.