Egg enables cheques-by-email
News A service launched this week, Egg Pay, will let Egg users make payments of up to £200 to anyone with Web access, an email address and a bank account. Egg Pay is the latest twist on the concept of e-payments, which aim to use the Internet to replace...
[April 22, 2002, 14:38]
Condemnation for sale of human eggs on the Web
News To register a bid for an egg, users need to become a member of the site and pay a monthly fee. A 'good looking' egg costs between $15,000 (£9,150) to $150,000 (£91,500) depending on the model chosen. According to Ron Harris a former pornographer...
[October 26, 1999, 10:39]
What exactly that egg thrower said to Ballmer
Blog EGG CHUCKER: our country is going to pay a lot more for letting him doing a ‘parade’ (circus) here… EGG CHUCKER: Hey you, Microsoft has caused Hungary 25 Billion Hungarian Forints in (unintelligible) to the Hungarian people - give that money back...
[May 22, 2008, 17:33]
O2 launches i-mode in UK
News The UK version will include various news sites, such as The Times Online, Channel 4 and Sky News, along with general entertainment sites such as The National Lottery and Sony BMG, and financial sites such as Norwich Union and Egg.
[September 26, 2005, 17:20]
Adobe looks to the future as Flash turns 10
News The company was faced with the chicken-or-egg problem, Lynch said. So Macromedia decided to pay "a considerable amount of money" to Netscape — then the reigning browser company — to distribute the Flash plug-in, Lynch said.
[August 9, 2006, 10:30]
Online banks under legal scrutiny
News Other banks, such as Prudential's Egg (which has had security issues of its own), take the controversial measure of making customers liable for any damages that occur before the customer notifies them their credit card has been misused.
[August 2, 2000, 10:10]
i-mode finally connects with the UK
News It has thus signed content deals with more 'lifestyle ' brands such as Internet bank egg.com, job search engine Monster.com, Insurance broker Norwich Union and estate agent Rightmove.com. Every content provider will provide some element of 'free...
[September 30, 2005, 11:40]
That's how they did it: VAIO X Series uses Sandisk
Blog An egg weighs 50g. You pay for the portability; prices are north of £1,200, which is high for an Atom processor. But what you pay for is pretty amazing portability - and when the high end is this light, expect a lot of only-a-bit-heavier models at...
[November 3, 2009, 15:07]
News Roundup: Tech companies face clouded future
News Customer growth cuts Egg's losses Tuesday 24th July Pioneer Internet bank Egg has reported a narrowed loss for the first half of this year, putting it on track to break even in the fourth quarter Shareholder revolt forces Vodafone to review bosses...
[July 26, 2001, 10:35]
Instrumental to chip success
News There has been this kind of chicken and the egg stall, though, over who will pay for the [cinema] upgrades. When Texas Instruments comes to mind, most folks still might think calculators or educational toys.
[September 2, 2005, 11:05]
Mandriva Linux 2008 Spring review
Reviews Installation proved, in our case at least, to be something of a curate's egg. Finally there's a PowerPack version (the only one you have to pay for, starting at €49 — about £39 — if downloaded), which is effectively Mandriva Linux One plus...
[May 28, 2008, 10:42]
New rules tighten up e-money market
News In the wake of failed schemes, banks are looking at other methods of enabling payments: Earlier this week online bank Egg unveiled a service that lets its customers make payments of up to £200 to anyone with Web access, an email address and a bank...
[April 26, 2002, 16:56]
Bluetooth to be big by Christmas
News British Bluetooth network supplier Red-M got an early Easter egg on Thursday, in the form of $35m (£24m) in second-round venture-capital funding. One company took a gamble and it didn't pay off for them," he said.
[April 12, 2001, 16:06]
Corel CEO charged with insider dealing
News The board's going to have to ask whether this guy is a good enough leader that it's worth having this kind of egg on their face. Cowpland, who has said he sold the shares to pay off personal loans, had maintained the investigation was routine and...
[October 15, 1999, 8:49]
Phase change limited as flash replacement
News However, Gordon noted that the cost factor will prove to be a proverbial chicken-and-egg issue. That, however, does not guarantee the investment will pay off, he said. Cost concerns over phase change memory, which is expected to ship commercially...
[September 2, 2008, 12:27]
Sun sheds light on its open-source future
News The chicken turns up with an egg, while the pig turns up with a side of bacon. We see this approach gradually being replaced with the "adoption-led" model, at first in start-ups and then within larger business, where businesses adopt first and...
[April 29, 2008, 13:16]
Is the Wi-Fi bandwagon safe?
News Operators are facing the classic chicken-and-egg scenario," said Amy Craven, the In-Stat/MDR analyst covering hot spots. John Marston, a business development executive at Toshiba, cautioned operators to pay attention to the market and not be overly...
[March 12, 2003, 13:16]
Jane Wakefield: The silly season of surveys
News And finally we have news that online banks like Egg are not all they are cracked up to be (get the yolk? People who regard the cost of an airplane ticket as a small price to pay for getting away from the incessant ringing of mobile phones can wipe...
[July 7, 2000, 15:12]
UPDATE: First-e takes the slow road
News By building consumer confidence in online banking, the big banks are really benefiting dot-coms such as First-e, Egg and Smile, Thackray said. Television advertising, says Thackray, simply does not pay off.
[October 26, 2000, 11:48]
