Consumer Confidential: Specter of 007 emerges in war on robocalls
It's hard to say what's cooler here - that the phone industry thinks it finally has a partial solution to robocalls or that some inspired techie gave the system a winking James Bond reference by calling it Shaken/Stir.
"That was a geek moment," admitted Jim McEachern, senior technology consultant with the Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions, a trade group that spearheaded efforts to make Shaken/Stir a reality.
McEachern briefed me last week on the latest developments in the battle to put a dent in the roughly 2.5 billion prerecorded robocalls received by U.S.
