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News Burst: Breathe.com gasps its last
News The Internet service provider Breathe.com collapsed under a load of £50m in debts last week, and on Friday PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) was appointed as its administrator. Breathe.com is to be sold without redundancies among its 140 staff.
[December 18, 2000, 10:35]
breathe offers cheap bundled WAP surfing
News UK ISP breathe.net which will change its name to breathe.com next week, is to launch a combined ISP/WAP offering with inclusive monthly billing for access to the Net or WAP content. Sean Gardner CEO of breathe, promises that, while unable to go...
[April 6, 2000, 11:43]
Breathe closes unmetered scheme
News Internet service provider Breathe shut down its unmetered Web access for life scheme Sunday. The ISP announced the end of its "breathe freely" package, which charged £50 for lifelong Internet access, on Friday after weeks of rumour.
[December 11, 2000, 9:06]
breathe hits out at over-hyped WAP
News Mobile Internet firm breathe warns Friday that WAP is being over-hyped and urges the industry to calm down. There has been suggestions that many of the WAP sites do not work properly.breathe's chief operating officer Sean Gardner adds his voice to...
[June 9, 2000, 16:55]
breathe.net's free service goes live
News ISP breathe.net's "Free for Life" Internet access service went live Monday, offering users unlimited surfing for a one-off fee of £50. Despite a huge number of announcements about free services, breathe is only the second ISP to actually go live...
[April 4, 2000, 16:22]
Breathe.com gets a new owner
News After being bought out by Great Universal Stores early this year, Breathe.com has now been bought by Internet service provider Affinity Internet Holdings for £1.75m in shares. During the dot-com boom Breathe built a brand around "converged...
[June 11, 2001, 11:23]
Breathe to launch unmetered offer
News Two months after it was saved from the scrap heap by Great Universal Stores, Breathe.com is to launch a new unmetered Internet access service. Breathe shut down its original unmetered package before Christmas and went into administration with about...
[February 26, 2001, 13:13]
Breathe easy for 1p a minute
News Internet service provider Breathe announced its "breathe easy" tariff Wednesday allowing Internet access for one pence a minute during off peak and premium times. The new tariff will be available to all registered breathe users and new users who...
[November 15, 2000, 14:27]
Breathe coughs up for email protection
News Faced with the surging tide of spam and viruses that is overwhelming UK users, Internet service provider breathe has signed up for Mailkey's email security system. The move will help breathe customers to use Mailkey's Message Manager Service to...
[November 18, 2003, 9:45]
GUS resuscitates Breathe
News Collapsed Internet service provider Breathe has been brought back to life with a £1.4m purchase by Great Universal Stores (GUS). The group, which owns the Argos retail chain, said it hopes to save at least 80 of Breathe's 140 jobs.
[January 8, 2001, 16:02]
UPDATE: Huge phone bill blamed for breathe's collapse
News The collapse of ISP breathe is due to the huge subsidy it paid to BT for its unmetered service, according to analysts Monday. Breathe was keen to be a major player in the mobile Internet market but also launched a fixed line unmetered service in...
[December 18, 2000, 15:15]
SAS Helps Executives at Aeris Therapeutics Breathe Easier
White Papers Aeris Therapeutics, a start-up biopharmaceutical firm based in Woburn, Mass.has pioneered the Aeris BLVR System, a treatment regimen that would provide a non-surgical alternative for reducing the damaged portions of patients' lungs and helping...
[July 7, 2006, 0:00]
Fate of Breathe hangs in the balance
News Retailer Great Universal Stores (GUS) has refused to comment on speculation that it is to shut down its ISP Breathe to concentrate on promoting it as a shopping portal. GUS acquired Breathe in December
[March 27, 2001, 8:51]
Customer fury over breathe's final tactics
News Unmetered ISP breathe appears to have choked on its decision to shut its service Monday, refusing to comment, despite leaving thousands of customers in the lurch. No one at Breathe was prepared to comment.
[December 11, 2000, 15:44]
Advertising Standards Authority investigates breathe ad
News Following last week's decision to boot 500 customers from the breathe.net service, the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has received complaints from customers who were told they were "using the service too much".
[August 1, 2000, 10:08]
Investors may breathe life back into Clickmango
News At least half a dozen investors are running to resuscitate online healthcare retailer Clickmango.com which announced its intention to wind down operations on Monday. It will take £300,000 to save the UK startup following a failed second round of...
[August 3, 2000, 16:40]
MPEG-4, VRML 2.0 breathe life into avatars
News Between now and September 24, the VRML/MPEG-4 liaison WG working group is to raise a list of requirements for the MPEG committee, from the VRML community. The working group was formed in the aftermath of SIGRAPH 97 (Special Interest Group on...
[August 15, 1997, 8:00]
Sony camera to breathe life into FireWire
News While FireWire - or IEEE.1394 as it is sometimes known - is not a new technology, peripherals that take advantage of its lightning fast transfer rates have been scarce. Sony's DFW-V300 Digital Colour Camera is its second camera in the category and...
[October 7, 1997, 16:36]
More ISPs cut broadband prices
News Breathe said on Wednesday that it has permanently dropped the activation fee -- a saving of some £60 -- for new broadband customers. By going further and axing the activation fee altogether, as well as allowing customers to provide their own ADSL...
[January 22, 2003, 15:51]
Bandwidth hogs spoil the unmetered party
News Surfer abuse continues to dog the free Internet service providers as ISP breathe is forced to kick 500 users off its unmetered service Thursday. Breathe launched its one-off £50 service back in April but has found that a minority of users are...
[July 27, 2000, 15:06]
