To summarize: Don’t expect too much from iPlum in terms of design, but if you are looking for a US phone number, you can have one for $1 per month. That’s iPlum.

Never mind that it’s illegal. In the United States, telephone numbers are considered a public resource, which means they can’t be sold, bartered or brokered. But a “gray market” for ...

Phone numbers stink for security and authentication. They stink because most of us have so much invested in these digits that they've become de facto identities. At the same time, when you lose ...