(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 ...

I was at a store selling one of these things, and thought "interesting". Asked the guy who works there if they worked or not and he said he had one for a month and it did. Of course how can I trust ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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., ...

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 ...

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

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.