Citing Threats, Entrepreneur Wants to Quit Caller ID Venture
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After receiving harassing messages and even a death threat, the founder of a service that fools caller ID systems has decided to sell the business.
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Analysts are telling companies that the iPhone isn't designed for business use and they'd be better off keeping it out of their workers' hands. Try telling that to the worker -- or the CEO -- who wants one.
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The co-founder of ClaimID says people know they have to let go of privacy to play in online communities. Monkeybites' Mike Calore blogs from Palo Alto, California.
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Bollywood film financier and diamond merchant Bharat Shah has filed a complaint with police that he had received threatening calls from a Dubai-based man.
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Company is latest phone giant to file suit to stop data brokers from fraudulently obtaining customer information.
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An Internet entrepreneur who worked for Wesley Clark's failed Democratic presidential campaign wants to flood Sen. Zell Miller's office with electronic petitions asking him to switch to the Republican Party.
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All that stands between you and seeing your cellphone turned into a conduit for endless sales-pitch intrusions is your mobile provider, who, for now at least, is skittish about violating any privacy laws. That could change, however.
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According to court documents, the man impersonated a lawyer and sent e-mails to domain name owners threatening lawsuits if they did not give up their domain registrations.
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A start-up began offering a technology Wednesday that can spoof a caller ID number, potentially opening the door to telemarketing calls that seem to be coming from a relative or a different company.
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Naguib Sawiris, an Egyptian telecommunications entrepreneur, jokes that his most recent business plan - a 25-year licence to provide mobile phone services in North Korea - is one born of desperation.
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The individual allegedly barraged Verizon customers with spam that advertised home loans and adult Web sites
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InfoWorld - Several class action lawsuits and a revolt by the founder threaten to derail a proposed $732 million acquisition of IP communications company Inter-Tel.
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A former SEC guy is aiming to help you steer clear of ne'er-do-wells.
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Handset vendor seeks a patent for a system that warns cell phone users of imminent lighting strikes.
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This pilot fish hears the marketing director complaining bitterly that she'll have to hand-type address labels for dozens of dealers and thousands of customers. Fortunately, fish has a suggestion.
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t may be known as caller ID spoofing, but it is evidently no laughing matter. Three days after the start-up company Star38 began offering a service that fools caller ID systems, the founder, Jason Jepson, has decided to sell the business.
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This week, a company is launching technology that will make it possible for someone to choose what appears on phones that have Caller ID, the feature for displaying identifying information about an incoming call.