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Nildram boxes clever with managed routers
News The UK Internet service provider announced on Thursday that its customers can now sign up for a new "managed" router service. The router remains Nildram's property; previously, users who wanted this option had to pay an extra fee per month, but now...
[March 3, 2003, 12:13]
Freeserve ads 'misleading', says ASA
News UK ISP Freeserve has been ordered by the Advertising Standards Authority to drop its current claims that customers can surf for " long as (they) like" after rival Internet service provider BTopenworld lodged a complaint.
[September 11, 2002, 10:34]
Callserve Net phone offers 60 percent off BT prices
News Callserve is billing itself as the first European Internet telephony provider, claiming that it will offer long-distance telephone calls up to 60 percent cheaper than BT. Making calls over the public Internet means that you are relying on multiple...
[September 24, 1999, 16:12]
Openworld claims success after broadband price cut
News Internet service provider BTopenworld announced on Wednesday that it gained around 10,000 broadband customers in October, giving it over 62,000 broadband customers. BT is also planning to launch a service to offer high-speed Internet access via...
[November 8, 2001, 14:49]
AltaVista MD resigns amid unmetered flak
News AltaVista was the first name-brand Internet service provider to announce unlimited dial-up access to the Internet for a flat rate, despite ongoing problems procuring a wholesale unmetered access package from British Telecom.
[August 30, 2000, 9:12]
Gov't stands firm on web-monitoring plans
News Details of all internet communications originating on a communications service provider's (CSP's) networks, including who is communicating with whom, when, and where, will have to be stored, the government said on Friday, in response to a...
[November 10, 2009, 15:16]
Microsoft proposes ID solution for spam
News Microsoft on Thursday is holding a summit with members of the Email Service Provider Coalition to address the use of Sender ID technology as a standard to fight spam and phishing. Companies and individuals are increasingly deluged with spam and...
[August 13, 2004, 8:40]
High-speed is big bucks - in the US at least
News At Home, a high-speed Internet service provider backed by cable companies, isn't the only one to discover this. Time-Warner Inc.and Media One Group are co-owners of RoadRunner, a high-speed Internet access service in the US, with 180,000 customers.
[January 20, 1999, 9:20]
AOL faces hate speech lawsuit
News The plaintiff, Saad Noah, is alleging that the Internet Service Provider (ISP) allowed offensive comments, which were posted in the "Koran and Beliefs: Islam" chat rooms in 1998 and 1999, to go unsanctioned.
[August 31, 2001, 16:47]
Singapore bus passengers get wireless
News The public bus service provider said since July, a bus on its 175 service has been equipped with the wireless internet connection. Network access is available to anyone on the bus with a Wi-Fi-enabled device, as the system is programmed to...
[September 3, 2009, 13:19]
Ntl puts broadband on set-top boxes
News Cable provider ntl has expanded its high-speed Internet access service to cover another 500,000 potential users, the company said on Wednesday. The new service is to be launched in Manchester on Monday, with London and Leeds to follow shortly.
[June 28, 2001, 17:06]
VA Linux acknowledges hack
News The site's "shell server" was compromised on 22 May after a SourceForge employee logged on to an outside Internet service provider that had already been taken over by the intruder, said Pat McGovern, site director of SourceForge.net.
[May 30, 2001, 9:22]
Microsoft sued over European music downloads
News E-Data, a company that's focused largely on licensing its patents, contends that Microsoft, Internet service provider Tiscali and digital music company OD2 are collectively trespassing on its rights with their new music download services, recently...
[October 14, 2003, 16:20]
Terra hits WAP scene with iobox buyout
News The move fuels the wireless Internet ambitions of telco Telefonica and Internet service provider Terra Networks. Most recently Verizon, which combines the US wireless services of Vodafone, Bell Atlantic and GTE, launched its own "Mobile Web...
[July 25, 2000, 16:41]
Anchor-draggers cut Asia's Internet pipe
News There appears to be a damage to some circuits on the China-US and [SEA-ME-WE cable which connects Germany to Japan] cables, about 30 km off Shantou in China," said telecommunications service provider Reach Communications spokesperson Martin Ratia.
[September 20, 2001, 14:18]
AOL hands RealNetworks job to Dolby AAC
News AOL plans to use Dolby Laboratories' streaming audio technology in its Internet radio products, swapping out software from the service's former provider, RealNetworks. Although AOL will continue supporting RealNetworks technology in other areas in...
[May 29, 2003, 12:04]
Judge waves MP3Board suit into court
News The suit seeks damages over a ten-day blackout imposed on MP3Board after its Internet service provider received notice of alleged copyright violations from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).
[March 20, 2001, 9:55]
ADSL routs cable in broadband take-up battle
News Some three-quarters of new broadband orders placed in the last three months of 2003 were won by an Internet service provider reselling BT's wholesale ADSL products. The simple fact is that around 85 percent of UK homes can now access a DSL service...
[March 15, 2004, 13:05]
AOL attacks the spimmers
News A second AOL lawsuit, against 10 people suspected of selling controlled drugs online, is the first time that the Internet service provider has relied on complaints from its European and Canadian customers.
[October 28, 2004, 17:49]
ISPs and govt to talk net neutrality
Blog The reform will guarantee that your internet service provider must clearly inform you in advance if they impose limitations on accessing certain sites," reads the Commission's statement. This information will make it easier for you [end users] to...
[November 16, 2007, 8:50]
