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TechTrader: Ebookers.com, Baltimore In Nasdaq Floats
News Two European Internet groups brought out floatation plans Wednesday -- but the London Stock Exchange won't have anything to do with them.ebookers.com, founded by the businessman who started the Flightbookers chain of travel agents 16 years ago...
[October 28, 1999, 10:38]
UUNet Customers Cut Off By Internet Outage
News An Internet outage leaving some of business ISP UUNet's customers without connectivity on Tuesday has been blamed on the London Internet Exchange (LINX). It is currently believed that this was due to a problem within the London Internet Exchange...
[June 5, 2001, 13:08]
Lastminute.com Flotation Wows Market
News Shares aren't yet trading on the London stock exchange, but are currently being traded on the so-called "grey market", being exchanged unofficially between institutional investors. Lastminute joins Freeserve (quote: FRE), auctioneer QXL.com (quote...
[March 14, 2000, 16:53]
Parthus And Psion Unveil 'breakthrough' Chip
News The company's shares jumped on the London exchange following the news, gaining 18.5p or 6.88 percent to 257p by 10am GMT. The company floated on the London Stock Exchange and on Nasdaq in May. Parthus unveiled a single chip computer design called...
[October 18, 2000, 9:30]
Internet Reels After World Trade Centre Crashes
News At shortly before 4.00pm BST the London Stock Exchange was closed as police evacuated the City of London. Trading on the New York Stock Exchange was suspended indefinitely, while the Nasdaq did not open, saying that emergency market conditions are...
[September 11, 2001, 15:31]
ISPs Want More E-crime Protection
News The London Internet Exchange (LINX), which represents over 140 UK Internet service providers, has demanded that more resources are devoted to combating e-crime and cyberterrorism. According to Malcolm Hutty, LINX regulation officer, the government...
[March 31, 2004, 18:10]
UK ISPs Join Fight Against Spammers
News The London Internet Exchange (LINX) is putting its weight behind an international government campaign to combat spammers. LINX, which claims to be the world's largest group of Internet Service Providers (ISPs), has joined the London Action Plan...
[March 14, 2005, 11:40]
UK Woos Overseas ISPs In Push For A Better Web
News The London Internet Exchange (LINX), which handles almost all of the UK's Internet traffic, is looking to attract more overseas members by making it easier for them to exchange data with British ISPs.
[November 21, 2003, 16:35]
Early Internet Switch Becomes Museum Piece
News The London Internet Exchange (LINX) marked its 10th anniversary on Monday night by giving the UK's Science Museum one of its first switches. LINX also gave the museum the first 100-megabit capable switch deployed by any Internet exchange, a...
[November 30, 2004, 9:10]
UK ISPs Threaten Action Over Spamming Tools
News The London Internet Exchange (LINX) has threatened tough action after MCI, a prominent ISP, was accused of hosting a bulk mailing software application called Send Safe. LINX's 170 members -- including UUNET, which is part of MCI WorldCom -- use the...
[February 11, 2005, 11:45]
UK's Internet Link With America Boosted
News Internet connectivity between the UK and America should benefit from a deal signed this week between the London Internet Exchange (LINX), which handles around 90 percent of UK Internet traffic, and telx, a major interconnection point in New York.
[April 16, 2004, 14:30]
UK Web Traffic Drops As England Triumph
News The London Internet Exchange (LINX), which handles around 96 percent of the UK's Internet traffic, has reported that data traffic fell sharply during England's vital World Cup clash with Argentina, which kicked off at 12.30 p.m.
[June 10, 2002, 13:19]
UK Holds Net Censorship Conference
News Donna Hughes, a lecturer at the University of Rhode Island, US, claimed the Internet was also being used by people in the UK to exchange information on where and how to buy women and children from third world countries for use as sex slaves.
[February 17, 1997, 10:22]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Just to add more fun to the mix, we looked at the London Internet Exchange status page, to see what the statistics said for the period in question. So the other murmurs we heard -- that the switch fabric in the exchange was getting its knickers in...
[November 28, 2003, 15:20]
Blackouts Showed Internet's Weak Spots
News This is backed up by the London Internet Exchange (LINX), which is the largest Internet exchange point in Europe, through which over half of all Internet traffic in Europe passes. The Internet was far more seriously affected than previously thought...
[November 25, 2003, 13:30]
QXL.com Reveals Floatation Details
News British online auction site QXL.com said Monday it hopes to raise up to £70m through its planned dual flotation on London's Stock Exchange and New York's tech-oriented Nasdaq market. Shares of Freeserve, a spin-off of electronics retail chain...
[September 21, 1999, 11:22]
Massive Paedophile Operation Leads To Arrests
News We know that the Internet is increasingly used as a conduit for the exchange of pornographic pictures of children. Forces in Grampian, Derbyshire, Merseyside, Humberside, Hertfordshire, West Yorkshire, Somerset, Bedfordshire, Lancashire, Devon...
[January 17, 2001, 13:28]
.tm Makes Net Trademark Debut
News In exchange, NetNames gets to register companies for a fee under the attractive ".tm" domain.tm' also happens to be, purely coincidentally, the international symbol for 'trademark,' " said NetNames USA President Tony Van Couvering.tm' happens to...
[February 4, 1998, 9:20]
UK Gets More Wi-Fi Hot Spots As T-Mobile Expands Starbucks Deal
News These tariffs are more expensive than those offered by Internet Exchange, which runs 32 Internet cafes across the UK. The announcement on Thursday follows what Starbucks says was a successful pilot programme in six branches: four in the City of...
[March 6, 2003, 13:41]
Opera Releases IPO Details
News Closer to home, Cambridge Silicon Radio, which makes a high proportion of the world's Bluetooth chipsets, is planning to float on the London Stock Exchange next week; conditional trading in its shares began this morning.
[February 26, 2004, 10:00]
