Syracuse, NY -- Mark another milestone in the digital era. The next Verizon phone book you receive will contain no residential listings, a change that will reduce the directory’s bulk by about 25 ...

The first "phone book" (really a one-page sheet) came long before phones like this, but it was an important step towards the printed directories that were ubiquitous in the twentieth century and are ...

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 ...

In the U.S., we produce 804,000 tons of phonebooks every year. That's the statistic that comes from the EPA. It's over five pounds of paper for every man, woman and child, including those too young to ...

PITTSBURGH — Why do we still get phone books in 2019? Channel 11 News viewers sent us videos of their tweens and teens trying to navigate the lost art of the yellow pages. And yet, the books still ...

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 Spokeo examined historical documents, news reports, and other sources to ...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 White Pages, where many of us have found residential phone numbers over the years, are slowly being phased out in a number of states. NPR reported on this in early October, and now New York is ...

ALBANY — The days of having a new telephone book regularly delivered to your door are over for many New Yorkers. The state Public Service Commission on Thursday allowed Verizon and its directory ...