Tag: WHITEPAGES

Share Have you ever wondered how much of your personal information is out there on the Internet for all the world to read? Head over to a site called Spokeo, and find out for yourself. The site, which launched in 2007, markets itself as an online white pages, but warns that it's definitely "not your grandma's phonebook." And that much, at least, is true. Spokeo stores information on your age, ...

The White Pages' chronic illness might have been diagnosed in New York, but the phone book crawled to New Jersey to die. Regulators in the Garden State have given Verizon the okay to stop printing the residential listings. The company will still deliver print copies of the Yellow Pages, as well as government and information listings, but residents who still want the old-school, ink and paper White ...

The thing that we rarely talk about when discussing the certain fate of print media is its ecological value. Most of us, we'd venture, have at least some nostalgia for printed matter, as well as mixed feelings for the spread of e-books. But one book that we're sure no one will miss is the White Pages. Verizon asked New York state regulators on Friday to end the distribution of millions of ...