phone books

graphic / yellowpagesgoesgreen.org  Personally, I’d like to see phone books stop being printed altogether.

I realize most of our grandparents still require the paper behemoth to remind themselves how early Luby’s opens.

But for most of us phone books are effectively obsolete. Now’s your chance; go to yellowpagesgoesgreen.org and click the “sign up” button.

You’ll need to give them your name, address, and an email address for verification. Think of it like donotcall.gov for phone books.

AT&T is adding to its stable of online advertising properties, in a move to further diversify its ad business from phone books.

The phone giant said Monday that it will acquire privately held Ingenio, a provider of pay-per-call advertising technology, for an undisclosed sum.

AT&T said that it ...