Before the Internet, if a person needed to obtain a phone number or address for a person or business, he grabbed the phone book and searched for the information. Back then, "Googling" consisted of ...

Seattle's city council today approved one of the toughest laws restricting unwanted yellow pages phone book deliveries in the country. The new ordinance, approved in an 8-1 vote, creates an opt-out ...

Seattle's new law designed to crackdown on unwanted yellow pages phone books violates the First Amendment and should be declared unconstitutional, the phone book industry argues as part of a lawsuit.

If you live in eastern Volusia County, you may have recently received a phone book. For some of us, it may have been a pleasant (or unwanted) surprise and a nostalgic reminder of those pre-digital ...

Alas, the poor phone book. Once, it was the cornerstone of American connection, an indispensable resource people relied on to find pizza shops, plumbers, and the number of the cute girl in math class.

Currently in San Francisco, it is possible to opt out of having a Yellow Pages phone directory delivered to your residence, but that may soon change. The San Francisco Board of Supervisors is going ...

Once a mainstay of homes, businesses, and phone booths everywhere, the phone book has (mostly) gone the way of the dodo. Spokeo examined historical documents, news reports, and other sources to ...

SEATTLE (CN) - Seattle can ban publishers from distributing Yellow Pages to residents who don't want them, a federal judge ruled, granting partial summary judgment to the city, which was sued by Dex ...

I love a Freebie, but I’m getting fed up of the Yellow Pages and The Phone Book being sent to my house. They appeared again this week, these two big anachronistic catalogues lumped outside the front ...

AT&T launched its no-white-pages program in Houston late last year, according to a Nov. 12 story in the Houston Chronicle. The phone company promised that copies would be available free to those who ...