Tag: ACCIDENTALDIALING

If you're not in the habit of locking your keypad before throwing it in your pocket or purse, you've probably had it make a few calls without your knowledge. Accidental dialing is annoying, but usually just results in some long, boring voicemails of background noise, or, in a worst-case scenario, captures your off-key singing along with some Michael Buble song your car stereo. But a recent ...

Chances are it's happened to you: you've either received a call from someone who didn't mean to call you, or your phone went ahead and decided to call someone on its own, right from the inside of your pocket. An article in the Wall Street Journal investigates this new epidemic of the cell phone age, which can have implications far more severe than an annoying dead air voice mail. For example, in ...