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Can free speech and the Internet co-exist?
News The Consumer Project on Technology, Ralph Nader's pro-consumer organisation, announced on Wednesday that the group intends to propose seven new domains when ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) meets this month in Cairo.
[March 2, 2000, 9:02]
Pay as you go? But the Internet is free
News Threatening to broadside BT's Wednesday announcement of a pay-as-you-use Internet service, many companies are raising the profile of their free online connections. An early example came from Citicorp's Citibank and Virgin Net which teamed to...
[June 12, 1998, 9:15]
Government to launch free Internet tasters
News The British government is poised to unveil a new drive to boost take-up and use of the Internet in the UK. Under the new scheme, people will get a free taste of the Internet, and the government is hoping that this will increase the percentage of...
[May 12, 2003, 16:58]
Totally free Internet access from Monday
News Totally free Internet access will be offered for the first time in Britain, 1 November by UK ISP Callnet. Users of the service will be given a Callnet 0800 number to connect to the Internet for free and do not have to pay for setup costs or...
[October 27, 1999, 10:32]
E-Minister takes first steps towards free wireless Internet
News One possible outcome could be the legalisation of free community Internet access over 802.11b. Free wireless networks take a fixed Internet access link such as a cable, DSL or corporate leased line, and make it available to all through a radio...
[October 22, 2001, 17:09]
IBM lets Linux fans use mainframe for free
News IBM will announce late in the week that it has made one of its 10-processor zSeries mainframe computers available via the Internet for access by people interested in working with the Linux operating system.
[May 23, 2001, 9:14]
Google search filters for free-to-use images
News In the meantime, there are several search tools that let users quickly seek out images that can be reused and remixed including the Creative Commons search engine, Flickr, Blip.tv, ArtistServer, The Internet Archive, WikiHow, and Wikipedia.
[July 10, 2009, 12:17]
Berners-Lee: Keep the internet free
News That means ensuring anyone can use the web regardless of what software or hardware they're running, which internet service provider supplies their connection, which language they speak, and what disabilities they have, Berners-Lee said.
[March 2, 2007, 8:12]
Unmetered access model crumbles
News Unmetered access promised users cheap or free unlimited Internet use as an alternative to pay-per-minute access but has ended up in a mess as ISPs fail to deliver on their promises. The Internet Service Providers' Association (ISPA) blames Oftel...
[August 8, 2000, 16:06]
10,000 free PCs...and the catch?
News Gross, head of start-up Free-PC.com, announced it will give away 10,000, sub-$1,000 Compaq Presario computers and throw in free Internet access for users who match a certain demographic profile. Or the continual monitoring of your Internet use for...
[February 9, 1999, 11:26]
Skype software to ship on Dell laptops
News Skype's VoIP software, which allows people to talk for free over the Internet, will ship on Dell's new XPS notebooks. This gives Dell customers a simple way to use the Internet to talk to their friends and family from home, in the office or on the...
[June 1, 2006, 9:40]
Prepaid Internet
Downloads Just install the dialer software and whenever you need Internet Access, you can use it like a calling card. It makes a perfect backup ISP or on-the-road connection, or inexpensive alternative for people that only use the Internet infrequently.
[September 23, 2003, 12:30]
Google: Censorship should be trade barrier
News Speaking last week at a conference organised by US thinktank the Progress & Freedom Foundation, Eric Schmidt said that to defend freedom of speech, governments should use internet censorship as a non-tariff trade barrier.
[August 28, 2007, 13:34]
Voyager FreeFlight
Downloads Plus, while it gets real-time data from the Internet, Voyager FreeFlight doesn't require access to the Internet so you can use it on your laptop or Tablet PC in flight. Based on the full award-winning Voyager Flight Software System, Voyager...
[June 8, 2006, 11:50]
Sunnysoft MapView
Downloads Enables to create user maps Supports following graphic formats: pcd, .bmp, .pix, .gif, .jpg, .jpe, .jpeg, .jfif, .jif, .png, .ilbm, .lbm, .iff, .sgi, .rgb, .rgba, .bw, .ppm, .tiff, .ras, .tga, .pcx Moving the map by dragging or using arrows...
[October 24, 2006, 8:00]
MS no longer have 'tie-ins' with Windows, the new 'tie-in' in town is IE8
Talkback MS ties Internet Explorer (for free) into Windows 95 (Windows Desktop Update), IE becomes part of the standard interface as part of Windows 98. With the EU watching them closely - No longer able to 'tie-in' programs into Windows, instead MS seem to...
[March 23, 2009, 21:51]
Unmetered access: what you said...
News Adding up these figures, I pay a total of £23.97 per line each month for what amounts to cable TV, two phone lines, unlimited Internet access of good quality on both lines, as well as the equivalent of £5 of inclusive calls as long as you use them...
[February 17, 2000, 10:21]
UK Internet tariffs to be set below local call rate
News The revenue split, currently 70 percent of which goes to the ISP and 30 percent to BT will stay the same, ensuring the survival of the free ISP business model which some claimed would be endangered if a greater share of the Internet pie went to BT.
[March 10, 1999, 15:04]
E-voting company faces congressional inquiry
News Diebold, which makes touch-screen voting machines in use around the world, on Monday reiterated its withdrawal of copyright takedown notices directed at numerous Internet service providers with subscribers who posted copies of its internal email...
[December 2, 2003, 11:10]
American Express toys with free ISP
News The service, dubbed American Express Online, gives cardholders free, unlimited Internet access; all-hours customer service; and a Web-based e-mail account with the domain name "AmexOL.net. Once-popular free Internet service providers, in particular...
[February 9, 2001, 8:30]
