Another ISP bites the dust. Prodigy Networks in Administration
Blog We've been using Prodigy Networks as out ISP for over 4 years at both business locations, but last week, BT pulled the plug on the service. The thing is, ISPs are in effect being squeezed from all sides and it wasn't a real supprise when Prodigy...
[April 6, 2009, 9:45]
Reversi Prodigy
Downloads Play a multi tiered Reversi on an 8x8x8, 7x7x7, 6x6x6, or 5x5x5 board. This Java game has many features including multiple reversi sets, multiple backgrounds, create your own starting position (and save), timed games, suggest a move, and move history.
[November 15, 2006, 9:48]
BT loses hyperlink patent case
News BT has lost its controversial bid to sue Prodigy Communications over a patent that it claimed covered the use of hyperlinks. US District Judge Colleen McMahon awarded Prodigy its motion for summary judgement to have the case dismissed, saying that...
[August 23, 2002, 10:23]
Date set for BT hyperlink patent case
News BT's court case against ISP Prodigy Communications over the hyperlink patent will begin on 11 February 2002 in New York. Prodigy was the first commercial ISP when it launched in 1984, the first consumer online service to offer World Wide Web access...
[November 23, 2001, 13:55]
BT sues over hyperlink claim
News The lawsuit, filed against Prodigy Communications Wednesday in a New York federal court, follows BT's claim in June that it owns the intellectual property rights to hyperlinks. BT contacted Prodigy and 16 other ISPs, including America Online, in...
[December 18, 2000, 12:41]
BT suffers blow in hyperlink patent case
News BT suffered a blow in its bid to charge royalties for hyperlinks on Wednesday when the New York judge hearing the case brought against Prodigy Communications issued a ruling on the first phase of the proceedings.
[March 14, 2002, 16:57]
Early ruling close in BT hyperlink case
News Legal experts predict that a preliminary ruling in the case of British Telecommunications vs Prodigy could arrive as early as this week. BT then launched its case against Prodigy, one of the largest US ISPs.
[March 11, 2002, 14:10]
Unified messaging not so unified
News The IMUnified alliance consists of Prodigy, Microsoft MSN, Yahoo! Bill Kirkner, chief technology officer for Prodigy Communications - once one of its fiercest rivals in the US -- sent an open letter to AOL in July 1999 urging it to embrace...
[July 26, 2000, 12:04]
BT to press ahead on hyperlink case
News BT is suing US Internet Service Provider Prodigy Communications for unspecified damages, on the basis that it was issued with a patent for the hyperlink in 1989. BT first contacted 17 ISPs, including America Online and Prodigy, in June 2000, asking...
[February 7, 2002, 16:50]
News Schmooze: Gizmos galore at CeBIT
News BT saw its first setback in its hyperlink case against Prodigy, after a judge ruled that many of the claims in its test case against Prodigy were spurious. Strolling about the packed, sweaty show floor this year, the Schmoozer's eyes were...
[March 15, 2002, 16:41]
Collaborative Online/Offline Sales & Marketing: Enhancing Brand Equity, Decreasing Customer Defection, Diminishing Channel Conflict
White Papers As a marketer, the brands you represent depend on you for strategies that protect and enhance them.eCommerce can present peril or prodigy to brand equity & positioning. Brand control is at great risk in this Internet age where the lines of...
[December 14, 2005, 23:00]
Exclusive: Microsoft's Brad Chase on AOL row
News We want to get beyond the cat and mouse game of AOL blocking customers and folks like Microsoft, Yahoo and Prodigy having to decide whether to respond. Chase: We sent AOL two letters last week, asking them to join with the rest of the industry...
[August 2, 1999, 14:50]
Political correctness puts disk drives in a spin
Talkback Master - Prodigy We should offer alternative suggestions: Master - Pupil Parent - Child Lead - Understudy Primary - Secondary Major - Minor of course using: Boss - Suboridnate would only confuse the users as the general understanding is that the...
[November 30, 2003, 4:23]
RSA weighs in on teen's 'breakthrough'
News But to prove she's a real prodigy, her work must still endure the test of time. She's young, she's brilliant, and she knows what she's talking about. Or so say encryption experts who gathered for the RSA Data Security Conference in San Jose...
[January 20, 1999, 13:33]
Sun's Java jive lacks openness
Leader Old Mother Sun, jealously guarding the honour of her young prodigy, still forbids marriage. The delicate courtship between Java and open source has taken another twist. Java is of respectable stock, sniffs Sun.
[March 17, 2005, 12:05]
AOL Blocks MSN... again
News Inc.and Prodigy. Microsoft last week introduced its MSN Messenger tool with the ability to exchange instant messages with of AOL Instant Messenger users, but AOL last Friday changed its system to lock out Messenger and other competing applications...
[July 30, 1999, 9:31]
AOL not invited to IMUnified alliance
News The IMUnified alliance consists of Prodigy, Microsoft MSN, Yahoo! This week saw the creation of a new Instant Messaging (IM) consortium, which promises to break the barriers between rival networks and create one massive messaging service.
[July 26, 2000, 10:19]
Lone file-swapper takes on recording industry
Talkback Senior Unlimited Nudes (SUN) of San Francisco http://pages.prodigy.net/seniornude] SUN [Senior Unlimited Nudes] applauds "Jane Doe". The recording industry should have created iTunes (and similar low-fee services) YEARS ago, when file-sharing...
[October 3, 2003, 17:16]
Goodwins' Hot Dates: The Diary top ten for 2002
News It announced that it was taking US ISP Prodigy to court a while back: BT said that a patent it holds that covers sending routing information along with text, thus hyperlinks, and that it was looking for licensing payments from everyone who served...
[December 25, 2002, 6:24]
Internet innovation may be under threat
News But with venture capital drying up, it may now be up to the big corporations to continue innovating in the online world.will be the year the term 'new economy' disappears," predicts Mark Casey, managing director of Prodigy, a public relations...
[January 16, 2001, 10:49]



