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Fee-based services considered for MSN
News Microsoft, apparently serious about turning software into a service, is testing the US waters with a number of new, fee-based MSN services, including virus protection, music subscriptions and even an e-mail-via-phone plan, sources say.
[March 7, 2001, 13:34]
.Mac may prove a hard sell for Apple
News By imposing an annual fee on Web-based services that were previously free, Apple chief executive Steve Jobs is taking his company deeper into the murky waters of paid consumer services. For an annual fee of $99, customers can use Apple's servers to...
[July 18, 2002, 12:43]
Microsoft to disclose .Net fees
News Analysts have speculated that Microsoft will charge consumers a base fee of $25 to $50 (£17 to £35) per year, plus a usage-based fee depending on which services are used and for how long. At the same time, it will charge its business partners and...
[October 23, 2001, 10:13]
Consumers want flat-rate ISPs - report
News The Internet user profile survey -- conducted by NOP -- found that most users would abandon free access ISPs in favour of subscription-based services if they were offered unlimited Internet access for a fixed fee.consumers took part in the survey.
[February 25, 2000, 6:30]
Study: Customers wary of online IDs
News That plan, still on the drawing board, is intended to provide fee-based hosting and delivery of personal information while providing an array of services ranging from commerce to communication in partnership with Web retailers such as eBay.
[April 26, 2002, 14:02]
Hotmail trashes saved files
News Online storage services such as IBackup, Xdrive and Connected also provide file backup services for a monthly fee. Online photo site PhotoPoint closed down with no notice at all, although it later offered to return files to its 1.25 million...
[June 4, 2004, 9:05]
.Mac numbers grow
News In mid-September, Apple reported that 100,000 people had signed up for .Mac, a fee-based service that replaced an earlier, free service called iTools. The upgrade fee is $49 for the first year, which is $50 off the announced $99 annual fee for .Mac.
[October 2, 2002, 13:03]
Microsoft exec takes on services, Google
News Will these be fee-based services? Undoubtedly it'll be fee-based at some level. Services are quite interesting in terms of tying those things together. Will you allow developers to use Visual Studio to write or access Live online services?
[June 20, 2006, 12:20]
Windows XP needs Passport to travel
News Passport is supposed to be a universal gateway to a variety of services -- some free, others for a fee -- delivered by Microsoft and third-party service providers. Just as AOL Time Warner collects a monthly fee for its online service, Microsoft...
[June 22, 2001, 9:26]
AOL and Freeserve draw battle lines
News AOL UK recently introduced a flat-fee access charge of one pence per minute which Burrington siezed as an opportunity to attack Freeserve. ADSL users will pay a flat monthly fee for the service, although prices are yet to be decided.
[October 21, 1999, 12:43]
AOL delivers unmetered nationwide
News Unlike SurfTime it charges a fixed fee to ISPs, allowing providers to work out the costs of providing customers with unmetered access before announcing services. Unmetered access provides users with unlimited Internet time for a fixed monthly fee...
[November 8, 2000, 11:54]
IBM announces hosted application plan
News Some companies, including hosted CRM specialist Salesforce.com, also offer customers the option to pay a monthly fee to license the applications they use rather than pay a lump-sum fee for them up front.
[May 26, 2005, 16:20]
T-Mobile to serve 'all you can eat' wireless data
News Mobile-phone operator T-Mobile will be launching a wireless communication package for businesses in May that combines unlimited data access over 2.5G, 3G and Wi-Fi for a single monthly fee, in the first package of its kind in the UK.
[March 18, 2004, 15:50]
HP beefs up small-business offerings
News HP Extended Office is a subscription-based service that provides HP business-PC users with installation, business software, 24-hour phone support, and nightly online backups for a monthly fee. The new Extended Office and Web Services packages will...
[March 6, 2001, 16:06]
Yahoo! breaks in live stock quotes
News Executives have stated their desire to offer more fee-based services as a way to grow revenues that are not dependent on advertising. said Monday that it will offer a real-time stock quote and financial services for $9.95 (£6.99) a month.
[April 3, 2001, 10:08]
Apple online music service aims for impulse buyers
News The Apple chief pitched the music store as falling between Napster and fee-based services such as Rhapsody and Pressplay. Apple's service breaks from the pack of most recent digital music services, which have offered large or unlimited amounts of...
[April 29, 2003, 7:42]
Salesforce.com cashes in on application market
News AppStore aims to bring marketing and back-office tasks, such as billing and collection services, to small third-party applications vendors for a fee. Under AppStore, developers will have their choice between a fee-based standard, or customised...
[December 12, 2006, 8:15]
New .Net tools released as push continues
News The company said its Visual Studio.Net development tool package is available to subscribers of its Microsoft Developer Network, a Web site and fee-based subscription service for developers using Microsoft's products.
[January 17, 2002, 12:06]
Choosing the right VoIP equipment
News Users typically pay a monthly or per-call fee for public switched telephone network (PSTN) gateway services to allow them to place calls from their soft phones to regular landlines and cell phones. Some VoIP services are software based.
[September 27, 2006, 12:45]
Net research start-up stacks its shelves
News Still, analysts say some researchers could be turned off by digital libraries, which have been turning to for-fee plans to support their services. Dublin, Ohio-based Online Computer Library Center, a nonprofit that offers computer-based cataloging...
[November 19, 2001, 10:18]
