NEW YORK -- Call my house and you'll hear the three shrill tones of a disconnected number before I pick up. If you happen to be a telemarketing firm reaching my number through a computerized ...

AT LONG LAST we address the burning issue that has been uppermost in the minds of Sun readers from Rising Sun to the Delmarva Peninsula, from Baltimore to the far reaches of Western Maryland, and that ...

(CNN) --It never fails. You come home, sit down for dinner, and the telephone rings. A telemarketer is trying to sell you something. Now, you can ask to be placed on a no-call list and hope you won't ...

Well, I know how it works, so you decide. If its what I think it is, it just doesnt accept all calls that are blocked (IE wouldnt show up on caller ID). Most telemarketers block thier calls so people ...

Do you hate unsolicited telephone sales calls? If not, you are way too lonely. For everyone else, there is a device that electronically eliminates at least some of them. TeleZapper (www.telezapper.com ...

Call my house and you'll hear the three shrill tones of a disconnected number before I pick up. If you're a human calling, it's mildly annoying. If you happen to be a telemarketing firm reaching my ...

Telemarketing is one of the banes of modern life. The volume of unsolicited sales calls pouring into the average American home is so irritating many folks would do just about anything to stop it. The ...

Anti-telemarketing device the TeleZapper soon could be a permanently imbedded feature in new telephones. Royal Appliance Manufacturing Co. of Glenwillow, which also makes Dirt Devil vacuum cleaners, ...

A telemarketing tool that penetrates home privacy defenses is upping the ante in a technology battle between sales callers and consumers seeking shelter from unsolicited calls. Castel Inc., a maker of ...

Although annoying to many, telemarketing does work. So companies are continually looking for ways to improve results--and vendors are continually working to help businesses make those improvements.

NEW YORK - A telemarketing tool that penetrates home privacy defenses is upping the ante in a technology battle between sales callers and consumers seeking shelter from unsolicited calls. Castel Inc., ...