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 ...

REMINDER ABOUT THE SCAM. FOLKS, THIS IS NOT A NEW SCAM, BUT IT’S A CON JOB THAT JUST WON’T GO AWAY. HERE’S AN EXAMPLE OF A FAKE INVOICE SENT TO A DOCTOR’S OFFICE IN LANCASTER COUNTY. NOTICE IT’S FROM ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

The other day a curious artifact showed up on the doorstep, an object instantly recognizable even in its somewhat emaciated form to those of a certain age, and a complete bafflement to a younger ...

Verizon got approval to stop delivering them in New Jersey. The company wants to phase them out in Philadelphia next. New Jersey regulators have given Verizon the green-light to stop publishing the ...

The state Utilities and Transportation Commission today announced that landline telephone providers will no longer be required to provide customers with printed “white pages” directories — those fat ...

I have a set of very fat Yellow Pages phone books on the shelf above my desk. They have a thick layer of dust on them, since I have no reason to use them (and, I guess, I’m a less than fastidious ...

Hull claims to be the first area to have a Yellow pages telephone directory; the title of Coldplay's first chart hit "I was looking for a word that was like, 'yel-low'" vocalised Chris Martin when ...