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World Online goes head to head with Freeserve
News World Online comes to the UK next Tuesday with a huge marketing campaign and an aggressive plan to build itself up as Europe's leading ISP. World Online's UK CEO Laurence Alexander issued a warning to Freeserve Monday.
[January 24, 2000, 16:18]
World Online wavers on unmetered
News Despite promises to stick with its unmetered Internet service, fledgling telco World Online has sent a letter to customers this week claiming it is to "review its products and prices". While the majority of unmetered ISPs have already gone bust or...
[September 8, 2000, 11:06]
World Online faces legal action
News Private investors are to take Dutch ISP World Online to court following allegations that the flotation infringed Dutch securities rules it is reported Monday. Dutch lawyer Bob van de Goen -- acting on behalf of the 1,000 private investors -- will...
[May 15, 2000, 15:36]
World Online raided in IPO insider trading probe
News Dutch-based Internet service provider (ISP) World Online said Monday its headquarters had been raided in connection with allegations of insider trading around the company's disastrous initial public offering in March.
[November 14, 2000, 10:03]
World Online leaves Internet customers in the lurch
News Dutch ISP World Online has withdrawn its fixed line telephony service from consumers, leaving thousands of Internet users with less than a month to find a new telephone service. Customers who were subscribing to the World Online joint Internet and...
[June 29, 2001, 16:31]
World Online becomes a telco
News World Online transformed itself Wednesday from ISP to telecommunications company in an effort to make the most out of the Internet. The change in direction -- announced as part of the firm's Q2 results -- will see World Online concentrating its...
[July 27, 2000, 10:11]
World Online expands European empire with Bun.com
News Pan-European Internet service provider (ISP) World Online swallowed up The Sun's Bun.com on Thursday in a acquisition that has made it one of Britain's five largest ISPs. According to an World Online spokeswoman, for the time being, Bun.com will...
[March 3, 2000, 16:32]
World Online goes freeish
News World Online, the Dutch ISP which burst onto the UK scene in January, launches an unmetered service Monday. Since coming to the UK with an aggressive marketing strategy and plans to go head to head with the UK's number one ISP Freeserve, World...
[April 10, 2000, 12:40]
World Online buys Localtel
News Pan-European ISP World Online continues its shopping spree Thursday with the acquisition of telecommunications firm Localtel -- parent of Screaming.net -- in preparation to launch yet another unmetered Internet access deal in Britain.
[March 9, 2000, 18:05]
World Online hikes unmetered prices
News Only 24 hours after AOL announced its unmetered Internet access package, ISP World Online has raised the cost of its own flat rate offering. World Online Freedom 24 and Freedom Lite have been capped at 100 hours and 50 hours respectively, with...
[September 20, 2000, 16:16]
News Burst: World Online buys Localtel
News World Online CEO Simon Preston claims its unmetered service will be competitive. A spokesman says that WorldOnline is currently thrashing out the details of its own service and that an announcement is likely to be announced within the next few weeks.
[March 9, 2000, 11:57]
Sony sees 90 percent of its world online
Blog The world is going online in a big way and Sony believes it can see just how much. According to the company's chief executive, Sir Howard Stringer, 90 percent of the products made by Sony, including cameras, video players, televisions, will be...
[January 9, 2009, 11:00]
Quarter of world online as internet turns 40
News In 1990, Berners-Lee also created the world's first web server, known as Cern httpd, which ran on NeXTSTEP, and in 1991 the first website was put online: info.cern.ch. The system became publically accessible as the World Wide Web in 1991.
[October 29, 2009, 15:59]
Oftel investigates World Online
News The telecommunications watchdog Oftel is investigating the World Online takeover following over 50 complaints from disgruntled screaming.net customers. World Online has been swallowing ISPs such as screaming.net and bun.com as well as telcos...
[May 8, 2000, 10:10]
Ericsson WAPs World Online
News An agreement with Ericsson, announced on Tuesday, will see World Online rolling out a pan-European WAP service in the next few months. World Online looks forward to offering mobile Internet to both its business and consumer clients, who will be...
[March 21, 2000, 14:04]
Tiscali clinches World Online for $5.1bn
News Italian Internet Service Provider Tiscali on Thursday threw down the gauntlet to Europe's largest ISP T-Online with a 5.9bn euro (about £3bn) all share takeover of Dutch peer World Online to create Europe's second-largest ISP.
[September 8, 2000, 9:38]
Reliable and Scalable Technology Becomes Mission-Critical Tool for World Leading Online Grocery Retailer
White Papers Tesco.com is the world's largest online grocery retailer. When Tesco launched the online service, as a pilot in 1997, it wanted a technology infrastructure that didn't require huge investment and scaled as the operation grew.
[May 1, 2007, 1:00]
Will 'Sims Online' alter gaming world?
News This time, the whole world is paying attention as Wright -- creator of "SimCity" and "The Sims", the biggest selling computer game of all time, prepares to offer up "The Sims Online". To date, the top-selling online subscription-based game has been...
[December 16, 2002, 7:55]
Protest fears force World Bank conference online
News By holding the conference -- which was supposed to take place next week in Barcelona -- online, the World Bank is hoping to avoid the kind of disruption that took place at last week's European Union summit in Gothenburg.
[June 20, 2001, 14:29]
BBC to show World Cup games online
News A recent survey suggested companies could lose around £100 per head in lost productivity during the World Cup as staff keep up with matches online during the four-week footie-fest and many businesses are attempting to mitigate this risk by...
[June 2, 2006, 15:00]
