New website offers Americans the chance to opt-out of phone books. Feb. 1, 2011— -- A new website is giving Americans a way to say "no thanks" to deliveries of Yellow Pages phone books. Starting ...

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 ...

Those unwanted phone books that get dropped on your front lawn only to be tossed in the recycle bin are free speech protected by the Constitution, according to the 9th Circuit. “Although portions of ...

Phone books are nearly a thing of the past as many consumers are opting for online access to both residential and business information. For those who aren’t using their AT&T phone book, the deadline ...

Seattle unveiled its new yellow pages opt-out registry Thursday, months after it became the first city in the country to require phone book companies to honor requests of people who no longer want the ...

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 ...

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 ...

San Francisco would become the first city in the nation to ban the unsolicited distribution of the Yellow Pages under legislation to be formally introduced today by Board of Supervisors President ...

The long decline of the phone book, once a staple of homes and businesses but increasingly irrelevant in the online era, is continuing with the announcement by FairPoint that it will no longer ...

San Francisco would become the first city in the nation to ban the unsolicited distribution of the Yellow Pages under legislation to be formally introduced Tuesday by Board of Supervisors President ...