I’m going to sign up our family cell phone for the new wireless phone directory, and I’ll wager we won’t receive a single unwanted call. Why not? Because the directory is now slated to have all the ...

CHICAGO -- For consumers, the idea of a national directory for cell-phone numbers has about as much appeal as getting telemarketing calls during dinner. That's why a recent proposal by a wireless ...

Bowing to pressure from consumers and Verizon, Washington-based information commerce company Intelius has announced that it will shut down its online cell phone directory. Bowing to pressure from ...

HARTFORD - The cellular phone industry and state legislators agree cell phone users should be asked before they are listed on a wireless phone directory. Not everyone agrees, however, that Connecticut ...

ST. PAUL, Minn. -- Consumer backlash against the creation of a 411 directory of cell-phone numbers this year may have weakened it to the point that it will be useless by the time it comes out, some ...

MENLO PARK, Calif. Sheila Vreeburg has entrusted her cell phone number to very few people her family, close friends and her veterinarian. If she could keep it that way, she would. After all, Vreeburg, ...