A Year Ago: Soaraway Sun Does Net In A Bun
News The launch is accompanied by a massive 12 page Internet guide in today's paper, promising its readers jargon-free connection to the Internet and claiming ‘surfin's simply fun using Currant Bun'. Wanna go for a surf?
[March 30, 2000, 7:00]
World Online Expands European Empire With Bun.com
News Pan-European Internet service provider (ISP) World Online swallowed up The Sun's Bun.com on Thursday in a acquisition that has made it one of Britain's five largest ISPs. Bun.com was created by News International in March 1999 and currently has...
[March 3, 2000, 16:32]
Soaraway Sun Does Net In A Bun
News The launch is accompanied by a massive 12 page Internet guide in today's paper, promising its readers jargon-free connection to the Internet and claiming ‘surfin's simply fun using Currant Bun'. The paper which immortalised Freddy Star's taste for...
[March 30, 1999, 15:08]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog A brief note on the site says that an unnamed UK PR company slapped a bad case of judicial myxomatosis on the Bun last week and demanded sources for a particularly annoying story. Odd stuff, and as Peter Kirwan points out on science hack Charles...
[April 8, 2005, 19:40]
Consumers Shun Xmas For January Sales
News Christmas came late to the PC market last year with consumers preferring to wait for the traditional post-Christmas bun fight at the January sales. Many vendors who reported a slower than expected build-up to Christmas have seen a growth in sales...
[January 9, 1998, 16:30]
Oftel Investigates World Online
News World Online has been swallowing ISPs such as screaming.net and bun.com as well as telcos Telinco and Localtel as part of its plan to become the largest service provider in Europe. The telecommunications watchdog Oftel is investigating the World...
[May 8, 2000, 10:10]
World Online Goes Head To Head With Freeserve
News Telinco supports the Sun Newspaper's ISP bun.com and totalise.net. The UK's leading ISP Freeserve is in for fresh competition as a new Dutch contender steps up with a stark warning: we're after your subscribers.
[January 24, 2000, 16:18]
Palm Pad
Downloads You can do all these with a bun in your hand. The innovative on screen keyboard has opened a new way of input to the PC world. The Palm Pad provides the users to input text and control their text editor or a Web browser with ease of one hand access...
[August 20, 2006, 21:32]
Double Up On Databases
Blog OK, I know these tools are at different levels, but I’ve attended one Eclipsecon in Burlingame California and it’s quite a bun fight. For those techies out there who are also film buffs, you'll know that
[January 28, 2008, 10:55]
Sky Giving Away Digital TV With Net Access
News Thinking about going online with a free service? Thinking of Freeserve, X-Stream, or maybe waiting for AOL's new 0800 deal? Well think again. BSkyB's latest push to have a digital dish in every home is going live on June 1 and the online package...
[May 5, 1999, 14:14]
World Online Goes Freeish
News Since coming to the UK with an aggressive marketing strategy and plans to go head to head with the UK's number one ISP Freeserve, World Online has been busy swallowing up UK telcos including Telinco and Localtel and ISPs like strayduck, bun.com...
[April 10, 2000, 12:40]
World Online Buys Localtel
News It recently added the Sun's 450,000-strong ISP, Bun.com to its growing empire and more acquisitions are expected. Pan-European ISP World Online continues its shopping spree Thursday with the acquisition of telecommunications firm Localtel -- parent...
[March 9, 2000, 18:05]
