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After Hotmail "glitch" UK Excite Accounts Cracked
News Excite.co.uk and Ireland.com have fallen victim to an email hack it emerged Thursday, with tens of accounts accessed in the last 24 hours. Following the Hotmail debacle at the start of the week, one non-techie hack has gained access to the accounts...
[September 2, 1999, 16:15]
Excite UK Has 30 Days To Avoid Closure
News Internet portal Excite UK is likely to close at the end of this year unless it can find a buyer, following the slump in online advertising spending. Excite UK is jointly owned by BTopenworld and Excite@home, which recently filed for bankruptcy.
[November 13, 2001, 15:46]
News Burst: Excite Moves To Halt Email Breach
News Excite.co.uk admitted Friday its Web email service is faulty and has removed the password hint service from its system. Excite's decision to removed the service follows a simple hack Wednesday that potentially exposed tends of thousands of email...
[September 3, 1999, 10:46]
Excite Moves To Halt Password Hack
News The hacker who broke into email accounts on Excite.co.uk and Ireland.com this week, thinks people would be "shocked" if they realised how poor security is on Web-based email services. Stephen Finnegan, managing editor of Irish Internet magazine Web...
[September 3, 1999, 12:19]
Jane Wakefield: The Week That Was
News When it emerged later in the week that a non-techie hacker/cracker from Ireland could access any Excite.co.uk account simply by typing John and London into a password prompt, things seemed to be getting silly, and serious questions started to be...
[September 3, 1999, 7:00]
UK Shrugs Off American Broadband Troubles
News Cable provider Excite@Home reportedly experienced a number of network failures last year, which were caused by bandwidth-intensive users. Large proportions of bandwidth-intensive users have caused headaches for cable providers like Excite@Home and...
[March 20, 2000, 8:42]
Jane Wakefield: The Day The Internet Went Free
News And then Virgin, and then Excite (although I have to say their announcements are about as solid as jelly and seem to owe more to PR than to product). Then Excite. The Yanks came in, guns blazing, offering UK users what they really, really want.
[March 7, 2000, 16:11]
MSN Goes Free With BT Deal
News It sees Yahoo and Excite as its main competitors, not other access providers. Yahoo and Excite already have deals with BT to provide Net access and email facilities. MSN is falling in line with the rest of the UK market," he said.
[May 20, 1999, 8:00]
Dutch Police Arrest Kournikova Virus Suspect
News An individual claiming to be OnTheFly confessed to creating the virus in an evidently remorseful message posted to the Internet portal Excite@Home Tuesday. Excite@Home said Tuesday it was trying to track down a Dutch subscriber believed to be...
[February 14, 2001, 15:36]
UK School Pupils To Get Free Email For Life
News Every school child in the UK will get a free email address for life by December this year, following a deal between Internet search engine firm Excite and the fledgling public and privately funded schools charity UK NetYear.
[January 13, 1998, 11:13]
IWon Completes Excite.com Takeover
News IWon, the new owner of Excite.com, said it has migrated data and online traffic to its Web servers, completing a takeover of the portal assets acquired in the Excite@Home bankruptcy. InfoSpace and iWon split the assets of Excite.com in the Excite...
[December 28, 2001, 15:47]
Hacker Helps Excite@Home Toughen Defences
News Not all hackers are bad -- just ask Excite@Home. Lamo contacted the company nearly two months ago after he discovered a server that could be used by would-be attackers to get into portions of the Excite@Home corporate network.
[May 30, 2001, 10:48]
Excite@Home Launches Broadband Portal
News Excite@Home, which plans to roll out its new broadband service to 1.15 million cable modem subscribers starting on 27 March, is promising to exploit those characteristics and more. Excite@Home also said it will add more storage capacity for the...
[March 13, 2000, 16:35]
LineOne's Future On The Line
News BT's stake in Internet portal Excite UK is also understood to be a likely sale in the next few months. Unmetered networks are new to the UK, and they will take a philosophical shift for ISPs. For complete business coverage, see ZDNet UK's...
[November 27, 2000, 15:59]
ZDNet Roundup: A Week In The Life Of WAP
News However the major players are starting to enter the arena and Friday saw Excite jump on the bandwagon, announcing its WAP portal, to provide personalised content to users. IT Week: Excite unveils WAP portal Fri, 28 Jan
[February 8, 2000, 12:38]
Motorola Unveils Its Latest Models
News When Motorola started 75 years ago with the car radio, we had a product that could excite consumers, allowing them to drive and listen to music at the same time," said Redsun. With this new portfolio, we have shown that we can still excite.
[January 8, 2003, 16:18]
AOL Turns Up The Heat In Browser Wars
News Last year, Apple switched the default home page for Mac to Netscape.com from Excite.com, following the bankruptcy of Excite parent Excite@Home. For everything Internet-related, from the latest legal and policy-related news, to domain name updates...
[May 17, 2002, 8:32]
ZDNet Roundup: A Week In The Life Of WAP
News However the major players are starting to enter the arena and Friday saw Excite jump on the bandwagon, announcing its WAP portal, to provide personalised content to users. IT Week: Excite unveils WAP portal Fri, 28 Jan
[February 11, 2000, 14:51]
News Burst: BT Buys Into Excite
News George Bell, CEO of Excite Inc, said: "Our joint venture with BT continues our international strategy of choosing the best local partner in each market where we want to establish our business. BT's $10m (£6.1m) investment in the subsidiary is...
[November 25, 1998, 12:30]
News Burst: Internet Telephony - That's A Promise
News Excite, the former search engine - now repositioned as a portal Internet company - has teamed up with IDT - maker of the WinChip - to deliver on a promise: that within 2 years, "Internet telephony will be delivered to the desks of every Excite...
[August 12, 1998, 14:14]
