Identity thieves and con artists are deliberately falsifying the name and number on caller ID boxes as a way to gain access into consumers' homes and, ultimately, their wallets. Several viewers called ...

In the hours before the armed robbery by three masked men at an Easton apartment, three calls were made to the home that were recorded on their Caller ID box. Police then traced the number to a ...

A new telemarketing tactic — using residential caller-ID devices instead of prerecorded messages to deliver marketing offers — has caused consternation among privacy advocates but may not be covered ...

Nobody likes robocalls--political propaganda delivered via telephone by an automated service, rather than a live, phone-banking volunteer--but evidently the 2010 elections saw new levels of obtrusion, ...

When your phone rings and the caller ID is blocked, or it's an unknown caller, it can be pretty frustrating. Especially when you receive repeat unknown calls. If you're ready to stop those annoying ...

Although the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has effectively banned number spoofing from robocalls, that only prevents someone from making up a fake caller ID to try to trick you into ...

Caller ID is available in most parts of the U.S. For calls transmitted over landlines, there are rules about callers, particularly corporations and businesses, arranging things so that the caller ID ...

When telecommunications companies began selling caller ID, among the advantages they touted was the edge it would give customers over those pesky telemarketers. The idea, they said, was to allow the ...

Caller ID is an automatic feature offered by every telecommunications carrier to identify a calling party to the recipient. While there are options to block outgoing identification in order not to ...

Sorry if this doesn't really belong here - I figured networking guys would be the ones most likely to know about phone stuff, too.<BR><BR>I'm going to be supplying some analog phones to a secure area ...

A new multilingual, emergency-warning system was installed and demonstrated at a home in Richmond Monday. As part of a warning system that activates in various Contra Costa County neighborhoods in the ...