Internet Service Provider News

Optus off Telstra DSL
Australian IT - OPTUS has begun shifting its 200,000-plus DSL customers across to its new copper wire based broadband network in a move that could help wipe more than $1 billion a year from Telstra's revenues. Optus, Australia's second-biggest internet service

Raid that triggered shares slide
Times Online - THE offices of Livedoor, the online media empire run by Japan s most controversial entrepreneur, were raided last night as part of an investigation into alleged market-rigging. The inquiry could destroy the reputation of Takafumi Horie, Livedoor s

Consumer Watch | Congress can fix cable problems
Philadelphia Inquirer - No doubt about it. It's tough keeping up with all this technology stuff. You can be sitting on a train, minding your business, when "Waltzing Matilda" oozes out of somebody's cell phone. The guy next to you taps e-mails on his BlackBerry. Across the

'Martha Stewart, not Enron'
Times Online - Leo Lewis, who writes for The Times in Japan, explains how an investigation into the Livedoor online media company run by Takafumi Horie, the Icarus of Japan's internet industry, has panicked the markets into meltdown What is Livedoor? It is the

People Telecom hastens ADSL2+ upgrade
ZDNet Australia - Jan 18 6:23 PM
NEC Australia's NEXTEP DSL wholesale division will speed up the ongoing upgrade of its broadband infrastructure to the ADSL2+ standard as part of an access agreement announced today with Internet service provider People Telecom.Save to My Web

European stocks suffer sharp sell off
FT.com via Yahoo! UK & Ireland Finance - Jan 18 1:09 AM
European stocks fell sharply on Wednesday after a number of US technology companies reported disappointing results, while Tokyo equities fell sharply for a second-straight session.Save to My Web

Business joins paper and pencil drive for rural schools
Business Day South Africa - PUPILS in rural schools often have to share stationery, reducing their ability to complete schoolwork, a nongovernmental organisation said yesterday. Stationery is critical. When you have two to three kids sharing a pencil, the class may end

Privacy Policy
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Gadgets: getting social software talking
Tectonic - Africa Source II , a gathering of free software developers from around the world, is being held this week in Kalangala, Uganda. One of the participants is Douglas Hunter who specialises in social software. Doug describes his project: "It's called

Amp'd Mobile Chooses L2C for Applicant Credit Evaluation
[Press Release] Market Wire via Yahoo! Finance - Jan 17 5:00 AM
L2C, Inc. announced today that its Link2Cell intelligent credit-decisioning solution has been selected by Amp'd Mobile as the company's credit-decisioning platform. Amp'd, the first mobile entertainment company created specifically to bring next-generation broadband wireless to 18- to 35-year-olds, will use Link2Cell to get wireless service into the hands of qualified mobile subscribers.Save to My Web

Business Joins 'Paper And Pencil' Drive for Rural Schools
AllAfrica.com - Jan 12 6:54 AM
PUPILS in rural schools often have to share stationery, reducing their ability to complete schoolwork, a nongovernmental organisation said yesterday.Save to My Web

Clinton firm awarded $11.2 billion in anti-spam suit
The Des Moines Register - Jan 05 10:11 AM
Clinton, Ia. A Clinton-based Internet service provider was awarded an $11.2 billion judgment against a Florida man for sending millions of...Save to My Web

DSL.net Receives Listing Status Update From American Stock Exchange
dBusinessNews.com - Offering comprehensive Web design services to new economy enterprises across a wide range of platforms and technologies, Web Design Studio takes pride in delivering big-business Internet solutions to small and medium-sized businesses. Hartford -- DSL

Strencom in 500k MAN deal with E-Net
Silicon Republic - 12.01.2006 - Cork-based internet service provider Strencom has signed a deal worth 500k with E-Net, the company responsible for managing the Government s 70m network of metropolitan area networks (MANs), to enable site-to-site gigabit

Legal Decisions Bolster CAN-SPAM Act
E-Commerce Times - Citing its anti-solitication policy, the university asked White Buffalo to stop sending the e-mails after it received complaints from students and its network began to experience overload. When White Buffalo refused, the university blocked it from

Andy Oram Reports
American Reporter - Cambridge, Mass. CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- The Internet was the great non-commercial success story of our time. Commissioned by the government, built on open-source software, promulgated initially through research and academic facilities - the Internet was