This company is in India ( I asked ), They really do not represent EDN Magazine because I also called EDN Magazine and they said it has happened before and they had to make it clear on their website that it was not them calling. I also chewed a couple of people that called again talked to a supposed supervisor (He sounded like the guy I talked to origionally) and he assured me that this company would not call again but I still get calls about once a week from them.
Sorry, but it is not "EDN" magazine. It is "EDM" magazine and it stands for Electrical Discharge Machining. These machines are very accurate and most of the time are used to make tooling for stamping or punching metal operations. There are 2 types of machines, one that uses a very fine copper wire and another that uses a chuck of graphite. The operation is basically the same, the machine pulses very high electric current either through the wire or the graphite and it eats the metal away. (very slowly). Most times the operation is done under a bath of water, (or water treated with a chemical). So if your company does any kind of machining or metal stamping, they most probably have one or more of these EDM machines and someone in that department has signed up for the magazine or attended a convention, trade show or seminar and signed up for the magazine without even realizing it.
This number calls me at least evey other day, and usually twice daily on those days. Their robodialer must be broken, because they've been getting a "not in service" message from my number for months - I blocked them as spam in Google Voice after the first day.
I picked up, but no one was there. Probably the same ones who tried to get information yesterday for a "Free publication subscription." I called back and the automated answering machine said, "Alpha Technologies" and something about being a marketing company. I hung up.