I’m going to sign up our family cell phone for the new wireless phone directory, and I’ll wager we won’t receive a single unwanted call. Why not? Because the directory is now slated to have all the ...

When the U.S. House of Representatives voted in August to overturn a ban on using federal funds to establish a national patient identifier — a unique health ID number for every U.S. resident — the ...

Cell phone owners currently enjoy a kind of privacy through obscurity: Wireless numbers aren't listed with directory assistance. But now that Cingular Wireless, Sprint, Nextel Communications and other ...

Now that caller ID is so prevalent, we can often tell who is calling, but one piece of information that isn't often included in that caller ID is the identity of the phone carrier company. That's ...

Are you one of those users who are bombarded with phone calls from people they do not know? Or perhaps you have missed a seemingly important phone call, but you do not know who it actually came from.

You must have received a call from an unknown number. Some of them would be spam or promotional, and you would dismiss them. Often you would have suspected them of being someone known or a fraudulent ...

It is illegal for telemarketers to randomly call cell phone numbers but that does not mean you will never receive unwanted calls. This can be especially inconvenient and even costly to a small company ...

So you’ve lost that piece of paper with your friend’s cell phone number on it. Why isn’t there a cell-phone directory where you can just look it up? Because the owner of the cell phone would have to ...