&quot;Do-not-call&quot; list survives
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The US Supreme Court opted Monday not to hear a case involving the national &quot;do-not-call&quot; list, effectively ending a bid by telemarketers to have the popular registry deemed unconstitutional.
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Calls to 13 other countries will be blocked to thwart auto-dialer software.
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Weary South Wales cops finger phone timewasters South Wales police force has published a list of top time-wasting 999 calls during the past year in an attempt to convince people not to pick up the phone unless it's really necessary.â¦
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Cell phone can respond to motion by dialing numbers or ending a call.
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Both Google Maps and Windows Live Local have &#8220;click to call&#8221; (not yet PPCall) embedded now in their products. And several Internet yellow pages are using it. But there&#8217;s some debate and confusion about whether it&#8217;s a truly meaningful feature. Not surprisingly, eStara (a click to call vendor), has put out a press release showing [...]
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Popular program restricting cell phone use could also hamper emergency 911 services.
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WASHINGTON - 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.    The court, without comment, let stand a 10th U.S...
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The FCC releases names of 266 companies officially planning to bid in the government's upcoming 700-MHz-spectrum auction. More than half those botched their initial applications, including big names like Verizon, AT&T,  Qualcomm and Alltel. They have until Jan. 4 to qualify for the auction.
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CallWall is a new utility that acts like a firewall for your telephone, enabling you to whitelist and blacklist callers.
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Your mobile phone may be one of the last  spots around that&#39;s relatively free of advertising -- but not  for long.
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WASHINGTON -- The US Federal Trade Commission is seeking the first fines for breaches of a rule banning calls to people whose numbers are on a &quot;do-not-call&quot; registry, saying a Las Vegas telemarketer made more than 300,000 unwelcome pitches.
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The national do-not-call list overcame its last legal hurdle Monday when the Supreme Court let stand a lower-court ruling affirming its constitutionality.
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If you are in Sudan it is a "missed call". In Ethiopia it is a "miskin" or a "pitiful" call. In other parts of Africa it is a case of "flashing", "beeping" or in French-speaking areas "bipage".
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In a Feb. 7 story about cellular "spam," The Associated Press erroneously described a list published by the Federal Communications Commission aimed at stopping unwanted commercial e-mail and text messages sent to cell phones. It is a list of domain names to which telemarketers may not send e-mail without permission from cell phone subscribers, not listings of the Web sites that transmit unwanted data.
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Also: Mobile office challenge finds monkeys are distracting. Read these stories and more from around the Web on News.com Extra.
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College bound? Donât forget to write (instead of calling).
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Opt-in email lists not only allows you to instantly test an idea and get immediate results, but it also gives you the ability to maintain traffic and hits during slow periods. By Terry Detty. 0710