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 Spokeo examined historical documents, news reports, and other sources to ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

A federal appeals court panel has rejected Seattle’s fees and restrictions on delivery of yellow pages phone books to local residents. A spokesman says the City Attorney has not decided if the city ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Mayor Ed Lee quietly signed into law a ban on the unsolicited distribution of Yellow Pages in San Francisco - a regulation that already has drawn a threat of a lawsuit from the trade group that ...

Photo illustration with Marilyn Monroe holding phone book. Once a mainstay of homes, businesses, and phone booths everywhere, the phone book has (mostly) gone the way of the dodo. Spokeo examined ...