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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

San Francisco could come closer to winning an environmental victory while also fighting neighborhood blight and helping the economy. Legislation slated for a vote today at the Board of Supervisors ...

Two publishers of Yellow Pages phone books and an industry association sued Seattle in federal court Monday, seeking to overturn an ordinance that would let residents decide if they want to receive ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...