Tag: CALLERID

Highlights from this morning's other big tech headlines.... Our favorite avant-garde entrepreneur/pop star just got a little more famous. Lady Gaga's 'Bad Romance' music video just took the number one spot for most viewed on YouTube -- which is kind of surprising. Considering the bated breath with which the world waited for 'Telephone,' you'd think her Tarantino/'Thelma and Louise' homage ...

The *67 telephone function -- which you can dial before making a call in order to mask your phone number -- has always been a valuable tool for phone pranksters and private investigators. A new online service, called 'Trap Call', foils such identity blockers by unmasking the dubious dialer's phone number, city of origin, and maybe even their name and address. ...

Earlier this week, telecommunications company TelTech launched a new service called TrapCall, which allows users to expose the numbers (and names) of blocked callers, according to the Wired Blog. Recently drawing some heat from the press, TelTech is responsible for the SpoofCard service, which has in turn facilitated the recent rash of 'swatting' incidents. With the SpoofCard service, ...

Admit it: There's been a time where, knowing who's on the other end, you chose to just let your phone ring instead of answering the thing. With just about everyone having a cell phone today, this non-answering thing has become all the more common, both because people are seemingly calling others more often and because nearly everyone has a device with caller ID built right in. There are, ...