Name, address and a free phone call? Dialing 411 may never be the same again. Beginning sometime Friday or Monday, San Francisco-based upstart UpSnap says, it will launch a 411 service for cell phones ...

Google Labs just rolled out a Google Voice Local Search, which is basically a free 411 search along the lines of previously mentioned 1-800-FREE-411. To use the local business search tool, pick up ...

Google has introduced the latest in its line of services designed to make it easier for us to find information we need—when not in front of a computer. The project, officially called Google Voice ...

Telephone directory service has gone through a massive upheaval over the past year. Jingle Networks was able to take about 6% of the market and a patent with their Free 411 service. However, what ...

Making money now is less important than building the business of tomorrow. When Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) launched its free 411 service in 2007, its purpose was never a secret: The company aimed to ...

Google threw a new product called Goog-411 into Google Labs today – a free telephone based information service that could replace toll 411 calls. About 2.6 billion 411 calls are made in the U.S. each ...

NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- The money you spend on 411 calls may seem like small potatoes, but it's really big business. Each time you ask an operator to look up a number or place a call, you're charged ...

Yesterday Google announced that it was shutting down 800-GOOG-411, the free directory assistance (or voice search) service it launched in April, 2007. Back in those days the mobile landscape looked ...

Google got all the pronunciations, accents, and business names out of its free 1-800-GOOG-411 service it needed to power its voice recognition, so it's shutting down today. But please, please don't ...

There have been so many times I have needed to get a phone number while using my cell phone lately. Usually, it is to call a store to see if they have an item before spending $5 worth of gas to find ...

Marchex announced this morning that it was buying Jingle Networks, operator of free directory assistance service 800-Free-411, for $62 million in cash and stock. Founded in 2004, Jingle Networks also ...