It can be a bit disorienting when your phone rings and your own home phone number comes up on the caller ID. But will you answer the phone? Scammers are betting you will, or at least you'll be more ...

I have been debating for a while now whether to join the growing trend and dump my landline service at home. Personal landline phones are now included primarily as part of a bundled ...

Q. I want to transfer a phone number I've had for decades, but my new ISP says I can't port it over because it's in a different "rate zone." Any other way I can keep my home number? A. The Federal ...

Indianapolis, Nov. 12 - Hold on to your cell phones, a new rule will make it easier for more Americans to go wireless. "All I use is my cell phone." Dawn New is one of millions who have already made ...

Our personal tech columnist asked security researchers what they could find out about him from just his cellphone number. Quite a lot, it turns out. By Brian X. Chen For most of our lives, we have ...

NEW YORK – Beginning Monday, many cell phone users will have another incentive to ditch their landlines thanks to a recent ruling by the Federal Communications Commission (search). Local phone ...

After the surprise offering, Cannon explained his bizarre judgment call by tweeting: "Home phone numbers are just like Twitter anyway. I use this more than I use my home phone. So what's the big deal?

Several times a week, I receive mail addressed to my ex-boyfriend. It isn’t a mistake. He’s still using my mailing address and home phone number over a decade after we broke up. He didn’t have a ...