AT&T is dialing back distribution of its white pages in Florida - way back. The annual Yellow Pages is still showing up on doorsteps this summer like it always has, but the the white pages phone book ...

(CBS/AP) NEW ORLEANS - In the era of mobile telephones, AT&T Inc. is trying to rid itself of a long-standing tradition in Louisiana: the familiar white pages of residential phone listings dropped on ...

Peggy Beery prefers to search for phone numbers the old-fashioned way — by looking them up in the telephone book. If only she could lay her hands on one. Beery, 89, says she has asked AT&T five times ...

The telephone book was once a familiar part of everyone's household. Some of the directories were big enough and heavy enough to be used as doorstoppers, but everybody would use them at some point to ...

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 ...

For some people, the phone books that automatically show up on the doorstep or in the mailbox are relics of the past. With the prevalence of smartphones and the Internet, using the white pages to look ...

NEWARK — Phone books will keep getting slimmer. New Jersey regulators today approved a request by Verizon to use the online, electronic version of its Verizon White Pages directory as the primary ...

The other day a curious artifact showed up on the doorstep, an object instantly recognizable even in its somewhat emaciated form to those of a certain age, and a complete bafflement to a younger ...

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.