Move over, Ma Bell. Free directory assistance services such as 1-800-Free411 will ultimately overtake traditional paid assistance among mobile consumers once they become more aware of them, according ...

And much of that is profit. Directory assistance “truly is a cash cow,” said Saroja Girishankar, a vice president at the Pelorus Group, a telecommunications market research firm based in Raritan, N.J.

(Columbia) July 3, 2003 - If you've forgotten a number, directory assistance might be an option for finding it. There was a time when calling the operator for a number didn't cost a cent. Now you have ...

MENLO PARK, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jingle Networks, Inc., operator of the 1-800-FREE411 directory assistance service, today announced that it holds a U.S. patent directed to the advertising ...

Google is shutting down its voice recognition directory assistance service, GOOG-411, come November after using the service to firm up its voice recognition technology for future projects. The search ...

AT&T has launched a free directory assistance service on a trial basis in three markets: Bakersfield, California, Oklahoma City and Columbus, Ohio. The catch: users will have to listen to an ad before ...

Computer Web search leader Google stepped up an experiment to use speech recognition on telephones so consumers can ask for local information, in a challenge to directory assistance providers. The ...

MENLO PARK, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Consumers have flocked to recently introduced free directory assistance (DA) services, saving themselves more than $120 million during the last year by using 1-800 ...