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CompuServe, CIX armed for new MSN
News Online veterans CompuServe and CIX (Compulink Information eXchange) are getting ready for business as Microsoft prepares to launch a new version of its MSN service. Ten-year-old UK conferencing service CIX plans rapid growth in 1997 through a new...
[December 9, 1996, 10:16]
MD departs veteran UK online service CIX
News According to Jennifer Perry, CIX took exception to Roland's authorising payment to his wife of a three-month notice cheque even though this was in keeping with her contract and went through company accountants.
[June 2, 1997, 14:36]
BlinkZ
Downloads BlinkZ is an experimental program for members of the Cix Conferencing system to download their e-mail and conference messages using the Zmodem protocol. BlinkZ integrates with Cixed - the Cix off-line reader for EPOC.
[March 25, 2003, 17:35]
Guy Kewney's Weekend Diary
News Monday:Cix announces a new managing director. CIX is known to most computer industry cognoscenti, in the UK, but the rank and file know only CompuServe, and America Online. Glad I went to the announcement of Ameol 2; equally short of news, but at...
[July 20, 1996, 11:00]
Rupert Goodwins' Weekend Diary
News AOL and CIX have a much more interesting plan. It's an astonishing trick; while CIS and MSN do run forums where people discuss stuff among themselves, AOL and CIX share the ability to let the punters create their own areas.
[September 28, 1996, 9:00]
Rupert Goodwins' Weekend Diary
Blog AOL and CIX have a much more interesting plan. It's an astonishing trick; while CIS and MSN do run forums where people discuss stuff among themselves, AOL and CIX share the ability to let the punters create their own areas.
[September 28, 1996, 10:00]
Cliff Stanford: The maverick Internet pioneer
News Like many early adopters of online technology in the UK, Stanford joined Cix, the country's first commercial online conferencing system. Cix was a good place to recruit solvent enthusiasts, and by June 1992 about 200 people had signed up to the...
[September 16, 2005, 13:20]
Guy Kewney's Diary
News It's a fine day for Roland Perry, who in the morning is managing director of CIX, and by the afternoon, is consulting his legal representatives. Chatting to industry luminaries, it seems that a "sensible" price for CIX would be around £200,000; but...
[June 7, 1997, 8:00]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog A jobbing hack on Cix mentioned he was researching EDS' faux pas (EDS is the large American company with a habit of picking up the Establishment's big computing jobs - to less than universal acclaim), and promptly got an email from the company...
[May 2, 1998, 7:00]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
News Cix is the smoking submarine vent of the online world, an unWebbed, text-only conferencing system inhabited by the people that time forgot. In the end, Cix came up trumps. Monday 5/4/1999 Bank Holiday?
[April 9, 1999, 18:47]
Parlance
Downloads Parlance is a new Macintosh offline reader for CIX, designed for ease of use and total integration with the Macintosh OS. If you use CIX conferencing on the Mac, you owe it to yourself to try Parlance.
[August 31, 2007, 8:00]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
News A jobbing hack on Cix mentioned he was researching EDS' faux pas (EDS is the large American company with a habit of picking up the Establishment's big computing jobs - to less than universal acclaim), and promptly got an email from the company...
[May 2, 1998, 6:00]
Exclusive: BT's 'rogue salesman' excuse fails to Click
News The reader, who is a user of Cix, the UK's oldest conferencing system and more recently an ISP, said he received a sales call ostensibly about BT's Friends and Family discount schemes. Following BT's admission last week that it has been poaching...
[September 14, 1998, 16:17]
Thursday
Blog Yesterday, someone on the mobile conference on Cix reported a too-good-to-be-true deal from Carphone Warehouse that turned out to be kosher: Nokia 3310 phone for ten quid on the T-Mobile Free Time 750 tariff.
[December 6, 2002, 16:20]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog As a correspondent on Cix says -- we're all going to hell in a handcart over this, and as soon as we just admit it to ourselves we can just settle back and enjoy the ride. Monday 4/2/2002 Croydon is a joyless place: where better to do another...
[February 8, 2002, 15:58]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog As a sceptic on Cix commented, how removing the speech from the Web was supposed to help here is not clear. Thursday 21/03/2002 The Beasts of Midian are prowling round and round again. Not only do we have Emmanuel City Technology College in...
[March 26, 2002, 10:11]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Thanks to the excellent Captain Blue on Cix for pointing this out. Wednesday 8/10/2003 Readers with long memories may remember the launch in 1993 of Microsoft Encrata, the multimedia encyclopedia to end all multimedia encyclopdiae.
[October 10, 2003, 15:10]
UK internet hit by LINX router failure
Blog Some of our members are linked to the high availability network, others have connections to other networks such as DE-CIX in Frankfurt and so on, and switch to those if there's a problem. A switch failure in the London Internet Exchange (Linx...
[December 10, 2009, 15:46]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Cix is the smoking submarine vent of the online world, an unWebbed, text-only conferencing system inhabited by the people that time forgot. In the end, Cix came up trumps. Monday 5/4/1999 Bank Holiday?
[April 9, 1999, 19:47]
A Year Ago: Oftel moves to stop BT's poaching
News Graham Davis, Sales and Marketing Director at Cix -- the service where users first complained openly of the practice -- commented: "We welcome Oftel's prompt action. Following IT Week and ZDNet's reports of BT's abuse of customer records, OFTEL has...
[September 25, 1999, 7:00]
