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Surfers Urged To Join Back The Net Day
News Web users are being asked to take part in "Back the Net Day" on 3 April -- which is aimed to revive enthusiasm in the flagging e-commerce sector. US-based e-publisher Iconoclast has organised the event, backed by antivirus firm McAfee and Internet...
[March 30, 2001, 16:40]
The Day Ahead: 3Com's 'bounce Back' Quarter Just A Start
News So what may hold 3Com shares back over the next few months? The company also plans to announce two new Net appliances in the second quarter. Just for the record, 3Com's pro forma net loss of 12 cents a share excluded purchased in-process technology...
[September 27, 2000, 13:49]
The Day Ahead: Compaq Wins Credibility Back, Now Must Grow
News It took a year, but Compaq chief exec Michael Capellas has won the company's credibility back by doing the basics. On the commercial PC side of the business, Compaq said the unit was profitable courtesy of its iPAQ line of Net appliances.
[July 26, 2000, 12:11]
Nimda Rampage Starts To Slow
News See the Net Crime News Section for the latest on hacking, fraud, viruses and related issues. On Tuesday, the day the worm started to spread, the number of infected computer systems detected by CAIDA quickly climbed to a peak of 150,000.
[September 21, 2001, 9:27]
Google's Desktop Liberation Tool
Leader The extraordinary power of Internet search engines has shone a bright white light on Window's own terrible search function -- people just can't understand why it it's easier to find a needle in the Net haystack than that vital email buried in...
[October 15, 2004, 12:00]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
News I'll design and build a set of tiny radio-frequency tags that come with unique IDs, together with a cheap scanner that picks them up and routes the info to the Net. I can store vast chunks of data dragged from the Net.
[November 14, 1998, 5:03]
Tuesday
Blog But BT would rather go back to the days when it cost five pence a minute. At least, that's the feeling I get from the announcement that BTopenworld is about to slash the amount of 'unmetered' Net access you get from its Anytime and Surftime products.
[October 4, 2002, 18:06]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog The same day, Rory from our sister consumer site cnet.co.uk comes back from the launch of the Slingbox, an eccentrically shaped gizmo that hooks into your existing video installation and supplies the same sort of features.
[June 2, 2006, 18:00]
Jane Wakefield: Dark Side Of The Net
News If a statistician were very bored one day, they could probably come up with an alarming illustration of the data mountain harvested from the Net -- "if you put all the personal information gathered on the Internet together it would stretch around...
[February 28, 2000, 11:45]
Rupert Goodwins' IDF Diary
Blog Last day and for many of those attending IDF, traditionally the tastiest. It's hard to relate what the appearance does of this by-now mythical figure in front of an audience of geeks so Net-savvy that packets long ago replaced testosterone in their...
[September 10, 2004, 18:30]
Aussie Censors Zap 27 Sites
News Within a day, teenager.com.au was relocated to a US-based server and back in business. Since 1 January -- the day Australia's groundbreaking attempt at regulating the Internet first went into effect -- 27 Australian-based sites have received...
[March 20, 2000, 9:13]
Netgear Raises Nearly $100m
News The company had raised the price range from $10 to $12 a day earlier, according to the registration statement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday. Netgear gave the underwriters a 30-day option to purchase an additional...
[July 31, 2003, 16:00]
Cutbacks Push Dot-coms Toward Profits
News There was a day when The New York Times Digital and Disney had wireless strategies, portal strategies, content strategies and (so on). According to co-chief executive Bill Daugherty, however, the company returned net income in October after two...
[January 9, 2002, 15:03]
A Kinder, Gentler Wall Street?
News Shares of Intel rival AMD were in positive territory for much of the day Tuesday, despite the seemingly ominous news that AMD would miss revenue and profit estimates. In the past few days, shares of Net advertising company DoubleClick and...
[December 13, 2000, 10:47]
Jane Wakefield: Why We Need A Slice Of American Pie
News Ten new millionaires are made in the valley every day and the real competition is becoming how to show off your wealth in a place where Porsches are passé. Kennedy has the laid-back manner of someone who has already made his fortune and is just...
[February 7, 2000, 9:00]
Garret Keogh's Weekend Diary
News Off in the morning to see Richard Branson's Virgin Net in a freezing tent in Battersea. Spend the morning grappling with kit and instantaneous deadlines at PC News Daily. Skip lunch to speak to Steve Billinger, in charge of content at the revamped...
[November 23, 1996, 7:00]
A Democratic Mobile Revolution
News Sending a text message reading "IVOTE" to the number on the sign triggers an immediate reply asking the potential voter to send back their name and address, still using the phone's messaging function.
[October 20, 2005, 20:00]
Email Lists Struggle Under Spam Avalanche
News In the early days of the Net, we built a nervous system, but nobody built an immune system," said Marc Smith, a sociologist who studies communities such as Usenet and email groups for Microsoft's research division.
[April 14, 2004, 14:20]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog I'll design and build a set of tiny radio-frequency tags that come with unique IDs, together with a cheap scanner that picks them up and routes the info to the Net. I can store vast chunks of data dragged from the Net.
[November 14, 1998, 5:03]
Jane Wakefield's Big Unmetered Adventure
News Jane Wakefield: The day the net went free The unmetered Internet access game may remind us of the school playground, but BT has still remained king of the hill. Jane Wakefield: Once upon a time there was the Net The sad tale of a brave ISP's offer...
[March 6, 2000, 15:11]
