Excite@Home Outage Hits Thousands In US
News But some Excite@Home subscribers told a different story in a series of emails sent to ZDNet News. Email and Web connectivity were lost to many of Excite@Home's 2.1 million North American customers from Tuesday until Thursday due to a corrupted...
[December 1, 2000, 9:58]
Excite@Home Snoops On User Downloads
News Excite@Home Australia users are up in arms over the telco's random raids on their broadband accounts in search of pirate activity, with many saying it's an invasion of their privacy. A message posted on a public newsgroup service from Cable...
[August 22, 2001, 12:36]
MSN Goes Free With BT Deal
News It sees Yahoo and Excite as its main competitors, not other access providers. Yahoo and Excite already have deals with BT to provide Net access and email facilities. It will appear on ZDNet News by midday.
[May 20, 1999, 8:00]
AOL Turns Up The Heat In Browser Wars
News Last year, Apple switched the default home page for Mac to Netscape.com from Excite.com, following the bankruptcy of Excite parent Excite@Home. For everything Internet-related, from the latest legal and policy-related news, to domain name updates...
[May 17, 2002, 8:32]
Excite Moves To Halt Password Hack
News We are currently disabling the password hint feature of our Excite UK mail service and in addition are taking further measures to ensure that this type or any other breach does not occur," the statement to ZDNet UK said.
[September 3, 1999, 12:19]
Yahoo!- GeoCities Merger Depends On 'pooling Of Interests'
News The Californian company also voiced concern that the recent mergers and investments of Disney-Infoseek, AOL-Netscape, USA Networks' Ticketmaster-CitySearch-Lycos, AT&T-TCI, At Home-Excite, and NBC-CNet's Snap could make it more difficult for Yahoo!
[February 26, 1999, 16:39]
LineOne's Future On The Line
News BT's stake in Internet portal Excite UK is also understood to be a likely sale in the next few months. For complete business coverage, see ZDNet UK's Enterprise Channel. Click on the TalkBack button and go to the ZDNet News forum.
[November 27, 2000, 15:59]
'Refresh' Button Could Become Obsolete
News A surfer on Excite, for example, would load a full page from the original source, but then the site would establish a direct connection between Bang's network and her browser. Bang, which managed to win $18m in funding during last autumn's venture...
[April 2, 2001, 9:51]
Sun Aims At Peer-to-peer Search With Acquisition
News Companies using the technology could be able to return search results that are updated in real time, a difficult or impossible prospect with the models used by companies like Yahoo or Excite, the creators contend.
[March 7, 2001, 9:42]
The Day Ahead: Sizing Up The Internet Incubators
News Also profited when MatchLogic sold out to Excite and Tradex Technologies sold out to Ariba. Creative is trying to become Korea's version of Softbank, which owns stakes in Ziff Davis and ZDNet, the parent of ZDII.
[February 7, 2000, 11:56]
Motorola Unveils Its Latest Models
News When Motorola started 75 years ago with the car radio, we had a product that could excite consumers, allowing them to drive and listen to music at the same time," said Redsun. With this new portfolio, we have shown that we can still excite.
[January 8, 2003, 16:18]
Startup Spotlight: UK Plus
News and Excite, as it is specifically a search directory. Startup Spotlight is a weekly feature on ZDNet UK News and ZDNet techTrader, featuring the bright sparks of the UK's high-tech startup industry. While some portals -- particularly Yahoo!
[March 2, 2000, 14:55]
Nokia Taps Replacement Handset Market With 6610
News We need the developers to create the wide variety of applications that will excite consumers," he said. See ZDNet UK's Mobile Technology News Section for the latest news, reviews and price checks on mobile phones, PDAs, notebook computers and...
[June 17, 2002, 13:33]
The Day Ahead: Portal Earnings Preview
News Excite@Home -- The benign neglect of Excite.com will continue in the fourth quarter. Analysts expect traffic and users to slip again for Excite. Does Ma Bell even want or need to deal with Excite@Home?
[January 8, 2001, 14:03]
Lacey's Paper Round -- The Week's Best IT Coverage In Print
News This week the money-obsessed have been writing about At Home's take over of Excite, and sturdy profit performances by bellwether stocks IBM, Intel and Microsoft.Did I miss something? Excite @Home deal "as usual, reality lags far behind reality...
[January 22, 1999, 15:38]
The Day Ahead: Drkoop.com Goes Critical
News CNet and Excite@Home. Beyond.com recently terminated a host of marketing deals with ZDNet, publisher of this site, Yahoo! Drkoop.com made a big splash last July when it inked a four-year, $89m (£56.42m) alliance with America Online.
[April 26, 2000, 12:07]
Excite UK Has 30 Days To Avoid Closure
News Internet portal Excite UK is likely to close at the end of this year unless it can find a buyer, following the slump in online advertising spending. Excite UK is jointly owned by BTopenworld and Excite@home, which recently filed for bankruptcy.
[November 13, 2001, 15:46]
Excite Owns Up To Gaping EWS Security Hole
News The EWS system is available from Excite as unsupported software that Web site adminstrators can install on their sites to provide local search facilities. The Excite announcement was e-mailed directly to registered EWS users early this morning...
[January 15, 1998, 10:48]
US Report: McAfee Online - Next-generation Portal?
News Excite, Infoseek and Lycos started off as popular search engines, McAfee Online started off hawking PC-management software, including a popular anti-virus line. and Excite, Network Associates -- McAfee Online's parent company -- has millions of...
[December 9, 1998, 10:05]
Jane Wakefield: The Day The Internet Went Free
News And then Virgin, and then Excite (although I have to say their announcements are about as solid as jelly and seem to owe more to PR than to product). Then Excite. Which is exactly what US firm AltaVista did on Monday (reported exclusively on ZDNet...
[March 7, 2000, 16:11]
