Best Software calls on traveling sales The company is putting rival Salesforce.com in its crosshairs, introducing an online version of its popular Act software designed for sales on the go.

A telephone service called Jolly Roger harnesses ChatGPT and voice modulation software to create and read scripts to telemarketers. Acting as digital, fictitious characters, Jolly Roger keeps can ...

Last April, software developer Aaron Foss won $25,000 from the FTC for a blocking system he calls Nomorobo. Up and running since October, the service is now used, Foss said, by some 45,000 ...

The National Do Not Call Registry is managed by the FTC and aims to reduce telemarketing calls. Visit donotcall.gov and add your number—it's free and takes less than a minute.

The FTC's Do Not Call Registry allows users to register their phone numbers to stop sales calls from real companies. More than 240 million active numbers are on the registry.

However, in 2020 she received seven unwanted calls from a corporation that argued she gave permission to receive the telemarketing calls when she provided her information on a sweepstakes website.

Like many, Heather Gaker gets frustrated by unwanted robocalls, so much so that she signed up to be on the national Do Not Call Registry provided by the FTC. However, in 2020 she received seven ...