So where does that leave consumers? Along with ignoring calls from unknown or unfamiliar numbers (then blocking them) and listing your phone number on the National Do Not Call Registry ...

“I hate making phone calls to parents!” a colleague of mine once exclaimed in the faculty workroom. I didn’t blame her for feeling frustrated about talking to parents or guardians on the phone. It can ...

For certain cell service providers, you can block your Caller ID from your iPhone's Settings. If you've toggled off Caller ID, you can temporarily share your number by dialing *82 before the area code ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. With spam texts on the rise, especially on iPhones and iMessage, we thought it would be ...

For a generation that was the first to grow up on social media and stay glued to their smartphones, they can reach everyone and anyone—but not through phone calls. This trend has been labelled ...

Nora Aunor would often call late at night, when the world had quieted and only the hum of crickets and the buzz of the cordless phone broke the stillness. Once or twice, I was the one who answered.

This separation of functions ensures minimal disruption to your normal phone usage while maximizing protection against unwanted calls. Setting up Prefix Blocker is straightforward. After ...

Here is how to block no caller ID on iPhone. This won’t block the calls entirely, but it ensures that your phone won’t ring or vibrate when someone with no caller ID tries to contact you. The call ...

PERMISSION_REQUEST_READ_PHONE_STATE, Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show(); } return; } } } In this post, I showed you how to make a native Android app that can block certain numbers from calling you. I pointed ...

There are tons of reasons why you’d want to block a phone number. Maybe you got a spam call and want to make sure that you don’t get another call from that same number. Or maybe you don’t want to hear ...

On April 3, 1973, Martin Cooper, a Motorola engineer made the first cell phone call in history from a sidewalk on Sixth Avenue in Manhattan with a device the size of a brick. “I’m calling you on a ...