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 ...

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San Francisco's pioneering legislation to launch a pilot program banning the unwanted distribution of phone books appears headed back to the drawing board after a federal court struck down a similar ...

With her bulky Ethiopian Yellow Pages jostling in the passenger seat, “Mama Tutu” Belay lurches her black Mercedes to a stop. She squints suspiciously at a new bakery operating in a basement on ...

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 ...

Rejoice, households in Esperance: you no longer have to take delivery of six Yellow Pages telephone books. In Guilderland, Amsterdam and Delanson, where five directories are the norm, you, too, can ...

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 ...

I was reviewing print yellow pages book usage statistics this week, in preparation for the SMX Local & Mobile conference, and I was struck once again by the large numbers that the Yellow Pages ...

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 ...

There was a time when the Yellow Pages phone book was Australia's go-to place to find businesses, addresses and phone numbers. That time is not 2017. Yet already this year hundreds of thousands of ...

For a small-business owner, the sheer number of places to list a business and attempt to reach potential buyers can be overwhelming. Listing your business in a database like Yellow Pages, Yelp or ...