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 Spokeo examined historical documents, news reports, and other sources to ...

The 2015 St. John's telephone directory is smaller, thicker, and looks more like a travel guide than a place to find your dentist's phone number, but the new format is not likely to entice more ...

“We believe the world is better when there is not one algorithm deciding what books people should buy, or one algorithm deciding how a website should look. We want the world to mirror our individual ...

The Germantown Telephone Company office, October 2023. ALBANY — Woe to the phone book, as search-engine technology squeezes the formerly ubiquitous and once-necessary household and business item. The ...

After April 30, the digital directory, The Phone Book Online, which lets users look up a person's or company's phone number, will be unavailable. They now have to phone 118 500 at £1.55 a minute, in ...

FARGO - Ask yourself, "When was the last time I used a phone book?" If you're like 70 percent of the American population, you probably don't recall the last time you used the archaic directory that at ...

Imagine a list anyone can access, for free, containing the home phone numbers of everyone in the country, along with their address. To anyone under 40, it must sound like a privacy nightmare, not ...

Inspiration for this rant landed on doorsteps in my area a few weeks ago, and has been sitting there, becoming increasingly soggy and unsightly ever since. Digging around the internet I found that ...

BT is axing another of its free services in just hours after ditching phone books. The telecoms giant will be pulling the plug on its online phone directory this week. The company announced the ...

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 ...