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Excite Owns Up To Gaping EWS Security Hole
News The EWS system is available from Excite as unsupported software that Web site adminstrators can install on their sites to provide local search facilities. The Excite announcement was e-mailed directly to registered EWS users early this morning...
[January 15, 1998, 10:48]
Excite Europe Secures Dreamy Deal With Sega
News A pact between Sega and Excite Europe means that Excite is to be the official search and navigation service of the new Internet-linked Dreamcast console. This is a significant coup for Excite, considering that the new 128-bit console, to be...
[September 9, 1999, 16:58]
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]
Excite Founders Launch New Venture
News Excite.com co-founders Joe Kraus and Graham Spencer will announce a new start-up on Wednesday geared toward letting developers build Web applications using a shared online template. The launch of JotSpot marks the tech re-entry for Kraus and...
[October 6, 2004, 12:40]
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]
Excite@Home IP Flaw Exposed
News Excite@Home -- an Internet service run in Australia by Cable & Wireless Optus -- has warned it will take action against anybody who attempts utilise an IP vulnerability that allows a single user to block up to 127 IP addresses, effectively...
[August 4, 2000, 9:50]
Excite To Gain $125m From Bank Deal
News The bank plans to create a financial services centre, linked to the Excite home page, with banking services for customers of Bank One and others. Bank One will get the exclusive rights to market banking services on the Excite home page, while...
[November 11, 1998, 9:30]
The Day Ahead: Excite@Home Trades Profits For Marketing
News Excite@Home looked like it had everything figured out. Instead of allowing Excite@Home to post losses for the year in the name of expansion, maybe shareholders should question why the company overpaid for Bluemountainarts.com.
[April 20, 2000, 12:48]
Excite@Home Faces Bankruptcy
News Excite@Home and its accountants said on Monday that the company may not be able to continue operations, especially if the Nasdaq Stock Market delists its shares. Excite@Home made the disclosure in an amendment to its annual report, which it...
[August 21, 2001, 8:43]
Excite Buys WebCrawler From AOL
News Excite continues its attempts to dominate the busy search engine market by paying $12.3 million for AOL'sWebcrawler Internet directory. Under the terms of the deal Excite will also become the main search tool on AOL's online service.
[November 26, 1996, 10:14]
Excite@Home Snoops On User Downloads
News Excite@Home Australia users are up in arms over the telco's random raids on their broadband accounts in search of pirate activity, with many saying it's an invasion of their privacy. A message posted on a public newsgroup service from Cable...
[August 22, 2001, 12:36]
Excite@Home To Play Dreamcast
News Excite@Home will become the "portal partner" for Sega of America's Dreamcast network, providing content and a specialised version of its site for users of the gaming console. Today's announcement calls for Excite@Home to develop content designed...
[December 14, 1999, 14:58]
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]
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@Home Buys Bluemountainarts.com For $780m
News Excite@Home said Monday it would acquire Bluemountainarts.com from Blue Mountain Arts Publishing for $780m (£468m) in cash and stock. Under the terms of the agreement, Excite@Home will issue 11 million shares, valued at approximately $430m, and...
[October 25, 1999, 15:44]
Excite@Home Keeps A 'video Collar'
News When new subscribers to the Excite@Home cable modem service sign their contract, no one tells them where the land mines are buried. The Excite@Home 10 minute restriction has drawn unwarranted concerns, said Matt Wolfrom, a company spokesman.
[November 1, 1999, 7:52]
Excite@Home And Dow Jones To Form Small Business Portal
News Excite@Home and Dow Jones are teaming up to create a portal site aimed at the small business market. Excite's @Work division launched its Work.com site last September, aiming it at the small- and medium-sized business markets.
[February 22, 2000, 13:57]
Excite Not Worried About AOL
News If new Excite@Home CEO George Bell has any worries about the giant merger between America Online and Time Warner, he's not showing them. Excite is planning to launch a broadband portal in March for its @Home customers, who use superfast cable...
[January 25, 2000, 13:25]
Excite@Home Files For Bankruptcy
News Excite@Home, the leading provider of broadband Internet access, said Friday that it will file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and sell its high-speed network to AT&T for $307m in cash. With the filing, Excite@Home becomes the latest Net...
[October 1, 2001, 9:11]
News Burst: Excite@Home, Cox Spend $85m On Tickets
News Excite@Home and Cox Interactive Media plan to invest a total of $85m (£53m) in Tickets.com, an online ticketing company, over the next 30 days, the companies said today. Tickets.com's content and tickets sales will be integrated throughout Excite...
[August 17, 1999, 12:45]
