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 ...

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 ...

The YPA is calling the site the National Yellow Pages Consumer Choice & Opt-Out Site, because it allows you to opt out of all books or choose to receive selected books. I clicked through through the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...