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Five years ago: ISPs unfazed by Prestel's 'fastest' claims
News Prestel's claim was made on the back of an independent study by BDO Stoy Hayward, measuring the access speeds of six big-name ISPs. The data shows Prestel's rivals averaging 58 per cent slower performance and awarded only AOL and Prestel with 100...
[July 30, 2001, 7:30]
ISPs unfazed by Prestel's 'fastest' claims
News Prestel's claim was made on the back of an independent study by BDO Stoy Hayward, measuring the access speeds of six big-name ISPs. The data shows Prestel's rivals averaging 58 per cent slower performance and awarded only AOL and Prestel with 100...
[July 30, 1996, 18:05]
Who needs pay per use computing ?
Talkback Anyone remember Prestel ? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prestel Before launching an anti microsoft polemic, perhaps we should consider the need for pay-per-use computing (PPU). As someone who routinely runs complex finite element simulations, it...
[December 30, 2008, 7:17]
NASA hacker ready for a long battle
News His most famous exploit was in the 1980s and became known as the "Great Prince Philip Prestel hack". Schifteen hacked into the Prestel system (a public bulletin board system using character-based graphics) while the Queen’s husband was watching a...
[May 2, 2006, 12:45]
Hackers Rule OK
News Ribert Schifreen and Steve Gold break into BT's prehistoric Prestel messaging system and gain unlawful access to the personal account of beloved royal patriarch Prince Philip. Estimated to have cost Prestel customers a grand total of £11, Schifreen...
[December 27, 1999, 6:05]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
News It has a Java Prestel terminal emulator. As for me.somewhere, I've got my ancient history as one part of MicroMouse (*800651#) and the, er, Buck Fusby fanclub (which got me thrown off Prestel under suspicion of having a sense of humour).
[August 9, 1997, 8:00]
Quotes of the Week
News Prestel isn't a service we come across much. Pipex's David Barret is unimpressed by Prestel On-Line's performance claims. "Psion is not really talking about why or what. Having got all the information, we decided the deal wasn't in the best...
[August 2, 1996, 17:47]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog It has a Java Prestel terminal emulator. As for me.somewhere, I've got my ancient history as one part of MicroMouse (*800651#) and the, er, Buck Fusby fanclub (which got me thrown off Prestel under suspicion of having a sense of humour).
[August 9, 1997, 9:00]
E-love, how about it?
News A sample survey conducted by UK ISP Prestel On-line has found 42 percent of its users had either met a partner on the Internet or knew someone who had. Dateline, the world's biggest introduction agency reports 8,000 hits a day on its Web site...
[February 12, 1999, 15:56]
A Year Ago: E-love, how about it?
News A sample survey conducted by UK ISP Prestel On-line has found 42 percent of its users had either met a partner on the Internet or knew someone who had. It's time for love with Valentine's Day fast approaching and technology has an increasingly...
[February 14, 2000, 6:02]
Demo '97: Sound Blaster to get software metering chip
News Software rental has been a dream for years, dating back to the days of Prestel, and it's never worked, says Stephen K. Your sound card could be watching you, in less than a year, counting the times you use your software, and charging you.
[February 13, 1997, 12:02]
Online Planets collide
News Planet Online, which provides the Internet access for dial-up users on the Prestel Online system plus business solutions for companies such as Channel Four and Cadbury, will also be offering an ISDN deal from late September.
[September 12, 1996, 16:44]
Home PCs need thinning out
Talkback For successfully introducing this appliance, the service vendor must keep aside such words like "computer" or "install," also they should have the answer to this question: "What is the difference between your service and Prestel?
[December 9, 2004, 19:55]
The monarchy and technology through the ages: Part one
News The Windsors, like many of their historical antecedents, have been heavily involved with the cutting edge of many technologies -- just look at Charles I -- and while the public might just note the odd Web site here, the occasional Prestel mailbox...
[June 3, 2002, 7:32]
Q&A: Software Warehouse's Steve Bennett
News We want it to be service-oriented so we're using the Prestel Online service with a 25:1 modem ratio.per cent of sales calls are answered with in 30 seconds; tech support won't be much less. With the launch of the softNET ISP division, the Software...
[September 16, 1996, 10:05]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog But even if you could patent that basic idea, there is prior art stretching back to at least the days of Prestel in the early 1980s. Wednesday 22/02/2006 There's only one thing that makes me madder than somebody trying to blackmail an entire...
[February 24, 2006, 16:10]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog There are any number of people ready to testify that they were doing much the same sort of thing well before BT got its patent granted, and in any case the idea that BT's Prestel system -- wherein BT's ideas were used -- had any effect on the...
[February 18, 2002, 9:25]
Goodwins' Hot Dates: The Diary top ten for 2002
News There are any number of people ready to testify that they were doing much the same sort of thing well before BT got its patent granted, and in any case the idea that BT's Prestel system -- wherein BT's ideas were used -- had any effect on the...
[December 25, 2002, 6:24]
BT sues over hyperlink claim
News The patent application was made in 1976 by Post Office researchers working on information services called Prestel and Viewdata. British Telecommunications (quote: BT) has taken a large US ISP to court over its patent for hyperlink technology.
[December 18, 2000, 12:41]
NASA hacker to speak at security show
News Schifreen broke into the BT Prestel network at system manager level and accessed an account belonging to HRH The Duke of Edinburgh. Gary McKinnon faces the prospect of an indefinite stay in Guantanamo Bay, but this won't prevent him from appearing...
[April 13, 2006, 18:05]
