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Cliff Stanford: The maverick Internet pioneer
News No one can ever say that Essex boy Cliff Stanford hasn't been prepared to take a risk. Stanford kept his interest in Internet access by setting up an investment vehicle, the Redbus Group, which in turn invested in hosting company Redbus Interhouse.
[September 16, 2005, 13:20]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog You'll have heard by now of Cliff Stanford's fall from grace - a fall he continues to strongly contest. Tory corruption, blackmail, death and hitch-hiking were all involved - Cliff's co-defendant was in such dire straits financially he'd had to get...
[September 16, 2005, 19:15]
Demon Internet founder trial postponed
News The crown court trial of Redbus and Demon Internet founder Cliff Stanford, who faces charges of blackmail and email intercepting, has been postponed until the end of the month. Stanford was charged last year under the Regulation of Investigatory...
[January 10, 2005, 11:45]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog That's sad, considering that we were the first country in Europe to have affordable Internet access at all -- those who were around in the salad days of 1992 will remember Cliff Stanford's bright idea for a tenner a month Internet access service...
[January 22, 1999, 20:29]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
News That's sad, considering that we were the first country in Europe to have affordable Internet access at all -- those who were around in the salad days of 1992 will remember Cliff Stanford's bright idea for a tenner a month Internet access service...
[January 22, 1999, 20:29]
Chatroom Danger: The role of the Internet Watch Foundation
News Founder member of the IWF board Cliff Stanford believes these two interests can sit quite happily together with no conflict at all. Unlike Stanford, Williams is not convinced of the IWF's independence from the ISP industry.
[March 15, 2001, 12:43]
Opinion: Demon was wrong
News The company started by Cliff Stanford way back in the days when email was just a virtual toy for geeks lost its bottle and its integrity, not long after declaring itself to be the UK's Internet champion.
[March 30, 2000, 15:16]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog And can anyone tell me what’s happening with the Cliff Stanford trial? Friday 10/06/2005 Despite being somewhat more generously appointed than Gary McKinnon, I am not the “UK’s biggest hacker”. Not a hacker at all these days, unless you count...
[June 10, 2005, 18:55]
James Bond captured by pirates
News Chairman Cliff Stanford believes broadband will be key to this but is confident copyright can be protected. The battle between the film industry and computer pirates heated up Monday with the James Bond blockbuster -- The World Is Not Enough -- the...
[November 8, 1999, 15:37]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Cliff Stanford, ex-Head Demon, announces that he's taking half of his £33 million stash and putting it up for the benefit of British inventors and cash-strapped companies with good ideas. Cliff, you have mail.look, the world needs stripy tomato...
[May 9, 1998, 7:00]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Cliff Stanford, founder and former MD, is now a consultant to Scottish Telecom and has no official connection with the company he founded. Cliff passionately believes in the idea of affordable, easy and uncensored access for everyone, and he made...
[May 2, 1998, 7:00]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
News Cliff Stanford, founder and former MD, is now a consultant to Scottish Telecom and has no official connection with the company he founded. Cliff passionately believes in the idea of affordable, easy and uncensored access for everyone, and he made...
[May 2, 1998, 6:00]
Bookmark this!
News The two were sitting on a cliff in California, overlooking the ocean, when they discussed the idea that people remember information spatially. Backus, said he got the idea about five years ago during a conversation with his brother, Ben, a vision...
[March 6, 2000, 14:50]
A Year Ago: Bookmark this!
News The two were sitting on a cliff in California, overlooking the ocean, when they discussed the idea that people remember information spatially. Backus, said he got the idea about five years ago during a conversation with his brother, Ben, a vision...
[March 6, 2001, 6:01]
Internet pioneer charged under RIP Act
News Cliff Stanford, one of Britain's Internet pioneers, has been charged under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers (RIP) Act 2000 with conspiracy to blackmail and the illegal interception of communications.
[February 13, 2004, 16:35]
ISPs could be forced to remove paedophile content
News Cliff Stanford, former managing director of Demon Internet, is appalled at Thus' decision. Stanford claims that removing obviously titled newsgroups will encourage paedophiles to use more innocuous names, making it harder to police.
[February 21, 2001, 15:05]
Times says BT to buy Demon
News Cliff Stanford, the company's CEO stands to make an estimated £30 million from the deal - not bad for the man who started the company from a boiler room in a cinema in Essex. James Gardiner, Demon's marketing manager, would not comment on the deal.
[April 3, 1998, 10:14]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Cliff Stanford's sale of Demon looks more and more like a masterstroke, at least as far as timing's concerned. Still at the wettest Glastonbury on record. It's awful - foot-deep mud, nowhere to sit down, cold, damp and windy.
[July 4, 1998, 8:42]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
News Cliff Stanford's sale of Demon looks more and more like a masterstroke, at least as far as timing's concerned. Still at the wettest Glastonbury on record. It's awful - foot-deep mud, nowhere to sit down, cold, damp and windy.
[July 4, 1998, 7:42]
Demon founder pleads guilty to email charges
News Clifford Stanford, the founder of Demon Internet and Redbus, pleaded guilty on Thursday morning to unlawful email interception. Stanford was also fined £20,000 and ordered to pay £7,000 towards prosecution costs.
[September 15, 2005, 12:50]
