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 ...

Phone books may seem like things of the past for anyone who has a smartphone. After all, just about any number is obtainable via online resources. With that said, there are still personal phone ...

Way, way back in the olden days, people wrote on typewriters, watched just five TV channels, and put sugar in their coffee. There was no such thing as gluten-free, eco-friendly, satellite radio, or ...

Seattle can’t limit distribution of yellow-pages phone books with an opt-out registry, and it can’t charge a fee to publishers who want to leave commercial directories on your porch, the 9th U.S.

The city’s quest to deflect unwanted Yellow Pages phone books was more expensive than first noted, with the bill to pay outside counsel pushing the expense to $781,503. The city paid $517,000 this ...

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.

Every year, thousands of phone directories, known as Yellow Pages, are delivered to residents across the United States. Before the technology of Google and other search engines became widespread, ...

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.

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 ...

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Q: Is there a way to be removed from the distribution list for the Valley Yellow Pages phone books? I don't need two different phone books and prefer the one from AT&T. It is a shame to pick the book ...