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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Yellow Book USA, the country's oldest and largest competitive yellow pages publisher in the United States, is working on bringing a new directory to greater Middletown in June 2003. The area is ...

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 ...

In 1995, just before the dot-com bubble began, Elon Musk believed "the internet was definitely about to go supernova," he recalled on the Third Row Tesla podcast in January. And as a result, Elon ...

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 ...

The city of Seattle is finalizing an agreement to pay $500,000 to settle its losing fight against the publishers of the yellow pages phone books, according to two sources familiar with the lawsuit.

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 ...

AT&T launched its no-white-pages program in Houston late last year, according to a Nov. 12 story in the Houston Chronicle. The phone company promised that copies would be available free to those who ...

The former finance chief of Yellow Pages has been charged with a multi-million-pound fraud. According to claims made by former shareholders in the business directory, Tony Bates let his fingers do the ...