Screaming Net: Localtel Who?
News While a Virgin Net spokeswoman admitted the screaming.net service sounded attractive, she was sceptical people would be happy about changing their telco: "That would be akin to changing your bank and is sure to put people off," she said.
[May 4, 1999, 8:22]
IT's Like This: Cost Is Gone, Get On.
News If it doesn't word'll spread that CallNet 'ain't upto it' and customers will have to endure the same level of non-service that shot Screaming.Net to fame (oh congratulations Screaming.Net on admitting you made mistakes.
[November 1, 1999, 10:48]
ZDNet UK's Mail Room
News Story: Screaming net: Localtel who? Noticed your ZDnet article ref Screaming Net/Localtel. Send your comments to The Mailroom Please remember to tell us if you don't want your letters to be published in the mailroom which appears every week.
[May 11, 1999, 11:29]
Critics: Net Dialup Price Cuts Mean More In BT Coffers
News Even with deals like screaming.net BT is still behind it, making money". Screaming.net is already offering free weekend and evening calls and on Monday both AOL and Freeserve announced lower tariffs. Cheaper Net calls negotiated between large ISPs...
[September 28, 1999, 17:23]
Unmetered Access To Benefit Techno-phobes Most
News Unmetered Internet access will drag the last of Britain's uninitiated techno-phobes kicking and screaming into the online world according to observers. The advent of fixed rate Internet access will lead to a massive increase in online gaming and...
[December 7, 1999, 13:44]
Unmetered Access To Shake Up Free ISPs
News A spokesman for screaming.net -- a free ISPs which offers free dial-up time on weekends and evenings -- is confident it will survive but is not so sure about Freeserve. The effect on screaming.net will be minimal but I would be interested to hear...
[December 8, 1999, 10:58]
COBOL Keeps On Rolling Along
Blog Its latest morsel is called Net Express with .NET and is reportedly designed to bring COBOL application development kicking and screaming into the 21st Century via use of Microsoft Visual Studio 2008.
[July 9, 2008, 16:21]
Jane Wakefield: BT Admits It's Good To Surf
News Localtel's ISP, Screaming.net would be the first to admit that taking over a service from BT is not easy. BT will be dragged kicking and screaming into a new model for Internet access. Free 24-hour Net access in the UK has finally arrived as...
[October 29, 1999, 13:26]
Unmetered Access Critical To The UK
News Eibisch believes the myriad of alternatives to BT's pay-per-minute scheme -- from AOL's one pence per minute charges to screaming.net's free weekend and evening calls -- have confusing consumers but he is not sure the alternative would be any better.
[October 21, 1999, 17:41]
A Year Ago: Unmetered Access Critical To The UK
News Eibisch believes the myriad of alternatives to BT's pay-per-minute scheme -- from AOL's one pence per minute charges to screaming.net's free weekend and evening calls -- have confusing consumers but he is not sure the alternative would be any better.
[October 21, 2000, 7:03]
Ntlworld - Industry Gasps At Truly Free Model
News Customers have to switch to ntl as their telecoms provider, which is similar to Screaming.net's deal with Localtel, but on a bigger scale. More importantly, Daum, who has been a fierce critic of British Telecom's (quote: BT) failure to bring down...
[March 7, 2000, 12:51]
Lacey's Paper Round
News Bertelsmann dragged kicking and screaming into electronic future -- Wall Street Journal The fact that such heavyweights as Barnes & Noble and Toys 'R' us are responding to rivals a fraction their size speaks to the levelling power of the Net.
[November 10, 1998, 12:55]
Chairman Admits BT Is An Endangered Species
News It is said that BT stands between the UK and the brave new world of the Internet and that it will have to be dragged kicking and screaming into that world," he said. Highlighting problems of privacy, viruses and legality on the Net, Vallance...
[November 30, 1999, 10:49]
Start-up Aims To Crack Laptop Encryption Market
News Everyone's screaming for it. Peter Trei, an experienced engineer who works for a large encryption vendor, says, "At the moment, the vast majority of the people on the Net don't use crypto, see no need to, and aren't going to lift a finger to do so.
[July 18, 2002, 13:13]
Security Experts: Botnets Biggest Threat On Net
News I think we're all screaming for help. Botnets are the biggest global threat facing the internet today, according to security experts at the RSA security conference in San Francisco this week. Ira Winkler, president of the Internet Security Advisors...
[April 11, 2008, 9:32]
Creative Focus: V98 Festival Embraces The Net
News This year, with the likes of Robbie Williams and All Saints promising to fill the venues with the usual horde of screaming devotees, Cronin is making sure the Web site doesn't buckle under the strain: "We've come to arrangements for bandwidth with...
[August 12, 1998, 15:13]
MP3 Use Goes BOOM - Part 1
News He clicks on the song and, sure enough, the sounds of angry, screaming, blaring guitars soon fill the room. To see how kids these days keep up with the latest bands, enter the dark but tidy bedroom of an American high-school senior named Brendan...
[June 15, 1999, 12:57]
