Opinion: Jay Cline says the proposed directory of cellular phone numbers will only be used by 411 operators, not telemarketers, and has all of the privacy controls it needs.

Bowing to pressure from consumers and Verizon, Washington-based information commerce company Intelius has announced that it will shut down its online cell phone directory. Bowing to pressure from ...

Wireless telephone carriers might begin later this year asking customers to list their cell phone numbers in a national 411 directory. And while carriers have vowed to allow customers to opt in or ...

CHICAGO -- For consumers, the idea of a national directory for cell-phone numbers has about as much appeal as getting telemarketing calls during dinner. That's why a recent proposal by a wireless ...

ST. PAUL, Minn. -- Consumer backlash against the creation of a 411 directory of cell-phone numbers this year may have weakened it to the point that it will be useless ...

"It's the last bastion of privacy, the cell phone," said Frank Kenney, a 57-year-old D.C. resident who uses his wireless phone only for emergencies and would like to keep it that way.

MENLO PARK, Calif. - Sheila Vreeberg has entrusted her cell phone number to very few people - her family, close friends and her veterinarian. If she could keep it that way, she would. After all ...

Sen. Charles Schumer, D-NY, blasted a plan to create a national cell phone directory, saying it would give telemarketers the chance to inundate consumers with unsolicited calls and text messages ...

MENLO PARK, Calif. -- Sheila Vreeburg has entrusted her cell phone number to very few people -- her family, close friends and her veterinarian. If she could keep it that way, she would. After all ...

Three weeks later, Coy published a list of New Haven’s 50 phone subscribers (names of people and businesses only, as phone numbers didn’t yet exist): the first-ever phone directory.

NEW YORK (AP) -- Intelius Inc., a startup that launched online directory assistance for cell-phone numbers, has shut down the service after complaints from consumers and Verizon Wireless.

MENLO PARK, Calif. -- Sheila Vreeburg has entrusted her cell phone number to very few people -- her family, close friends and her veterinarian. If she could keep it that way, she would. After all ...