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The Day Ahead: NetZero has cash, no outlook
News Commentary: NetZero has more than eight quarters of cash left, financial discipline and the ability to outlast its free ISP competition. Meanwhile, NetZero will acquire customers in bankruptcy court. NetZero remains in the public venture capital...
[November 2, 2000, 12:06]
Lonely free ISPs agree to marriage
News Free Internet service providers NetZero and Juno Online Services said on Thursday that they have agreed to merge, combining the last big independent players still operating in the once-hot free Net access market.
[June 8, 2001, 14:36]
AOL claims speed crown
Talkback The article fails to mention netrocket.biz, which beats propel and more compatible.netzero= horrid dialer aol: force browser with no bandwidth management proper: slow proxconn: slow netrocket: tad slower than netzero, but fast and compatible
[December 14, 2003, 17:56]
A new twist on free ISPs
News The company owns the second biggest free Internet service provider (ISP), 1stUp.com, with two million plus members; only NetZero, at three million subscribers, is larger. This stands in stark contrast to NetZero's pure, ad-based free ISP model...
[March 16, 2000, 13:44]
AOL plans cheap Internet under Netscape brand
Talkback I tried NetZero and my modem was the wrong one they said. I had to cancel NetZero. Thanks for the information. My 3 year contract with CompuServe runs out Jan. I got a deal when I bought my computer 3 years ago.
[January 10, 2004, 1:39]
AltaVista offers free Net service
News Other firms, like NetZero, Surfree.com and Tritium Networks are offering similar ad-based, free ISP services. NetZero uses the same ad-based model as 1stUp. The fact that [NetZero] hasn't been a rapid success suggests that in U.S.at least consumers...
[August 13, 1999, 9:32]
A Year Ago: AltaVista offers free Net service
News Other firms, like NetZero, Surfree.com and Tritium Networks are offering similar ad-based, free ISP services. NetZero uses the same ad-based model as 1stUp. The fact that [NetZero] hasn't been a rapid success suggests that in U.S.at least consumers...
[August 13, 2000, 7:10]
Universal Internet Dialer
Downloads Free Internet users (ie: NetZero) can use this dialer to connect to their Free Internet Service Providers and keep track of their online time connection. This is specially important now, when NetZero reduced it's free hours to only 10 hrs a...
[September 28, 2002, 18:42]
AOL claims speed crown
News In Tuesday's study, AOL will report that its service downloads Web pages faster and more reliably than rivals EarthLink, NetZero and MSN. The result showed that AOL 9.0 Optimized, which includes a caching feature called Top Speed, completed a...
[August 19, 2003, 10:50]
AOL plans cheap Internet under Netscape brand
Talkback I think if aol wants to compete with broadband and keep their price they should try and join up with a company like artera turbo and get higher speeds with data compaction and picture compaction similar to netzero high speed or try and push their...
[November 6, 2003, 13:38]
VoIP providers collaborate to promote services
News The latest entrant to the VoIP services party is dial-up Internet access provider NetZero. But unlike Skype, AOL, EarthLink, Microsoft and Yahoo, which only work over broadband, NetZero's service will work over a broadband line as well as a dial-up...
[November 3, 2005, 15:40]
FBI investigating 911 virus
News The NIPC advisory said the virus script was "disseminated" via source computers, which scanned "several thousand computers through four Internet service providers" -- America Online, AT&T, MCI and NetZero.
[April 3, 2000, 8:25]
The Day Ahead: PeoplePC faces stiff odds
News Mix rivals eMachines and NetZero together with a dash of Buy.com and you get the idea. People say hindsight is always 20/20. Given that fact, you shouldn't find any reasons to buy into the PeoplePC initial public offering Thursday.
[August 8, 2000, 12:04]
US Report: Can free-access ISPs defy gravity?
News Companies such as Tritium, @bigger.net, or the newly-launched NetZero give users unlimited, lifetime access to the Internet in exchange for allowing an advertising window to remain on their desktops while they are online.
[October 29, 1998, 9:55]
AOL plans cheap Internet under Netscape brand
News For the past two quarters, AOL has watched the number of its core dial-up subscribers slip as members have defected to faster broadband services or to cheaper discount ISPs such as United Online's NetZero and Juno.
[October 14, 2003, 16:45]
Rumours of ISP industry tryst for EarthLink and MSN
News The struggle in recent years between second-tier ISPs, such as EarthLink, MSN, Juno Online Services, AT&T WorldNet and NetZero, a free provider, has done little to establish a clear-cut challenger to AOL's supremacy.
[February 13, 2001, 10:30]
Free-PC.com sets off 'sales' frenzy
News Citing the latest ISP to turn to the ad-supported model, Westlake, Calif.based NetZero, which has signed up 300,000 users since its Oct.launch, Shaffer said there's theoretically no reason the same model couldn't work with increasingly-cheap PCs.
[February 11, 1999, 10:31]
Will Yahoo!'s fee plan set a precedent?
News They include pure plays like NetZero, which announced it's going to start charging some of its users who surf more than a certain number of hours a month. The first likely candidate is auctions, with many portals expected to follow Yahoo!
[January 4, 2001, 8:38]
New.net finds ally for domain effort
News Other partners include EarthLink, United Online's Juno and NetZero services, and Prodigy Communications. New.net on Thursday plans to announce a new partner in its long-shot challenge to the official domain system, adding Europe's Tiscali to a...
[December 20, 2001, 14:30]
The Day Ahead: Ready, set, rollup
News Luckily, NetZero, which had been a free Internet services provider, is starting to offer for-pay services, a move that makes it just another ISP. NetZero trades at a buck and change, but it has a decent amount of cash.
[February 9, 2001, 12:08]
