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ISP Spy :: Top Internet New Stories for August 2007 |
| BT Retail hits 4 million users | | BT Retail has become the first UK ISP to top 4 million customers. Over the last 5 years roughly 1 person every 40 seconds has subscribed or about 2000 a day. Not bad really.
The last million ..... | | |
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| | | Fri 31st Aug 2007 19:17 | Source: BT | |
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| Orange has an email tidy-up | | Orange, formerly Wanadoo and before that Freeserve has mounted a cleanup operation of its pay-as-you-go dial-up accounts.
Before once you stopped using their services, provided you made a co..... | | |
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| | | Fri 31st Aug 2007 09:26 | Source: Press Release | |
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| Bloggers battle Viruses | | Bloggers are urged to be wary of web links in comments posted on their blogs following the discovery of fake entries containing weblinks that lead to booby-trapped downloads that could infect a Window..... | | |
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| Ace Internet and EntaNet dispute | | As seems to be the way with the Internet Service Providers (ISPs) these days one small dispute about a missing or late payment can escalate into a huge blown out war.
That is what appears to ..... | | |
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| Top 500 firms hit by typosquatting | | The world`s 500 biggest companies have all fallen victim to typosquatting. OUT-LAW research has found that the fast-growing trend of making ad money from web domains similar to famous brands affects a..... | | |
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| | | Wed 29th Aug 2007 15:56 | Source: OUT-LAW | |
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| Rumour: Sky to launch Picnic Broadband | | Rumours are circulating that Sky are set to launch a non-Sky broadband service, targeted at the 10million plus FreeView homes.
Rumours say it is going to be called Picnic and launching in Nov..... | | |
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| | | Tue 28th Aug 2007 11:11 | Source: Rumour Mill | |
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| Monster.com hacked - 1.3million details stolen | | The BBC is reporting that popular Jobs website Monster.com has been hacked.
The report continues: Monster.com said confidential details of more than 1.3 m..... | | |
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| 90% of home connections are now Broadband | | The Office of National Statistics (ONS) have released their figures for upto June 2007 - which shows that nearly 90% (ok 86%) of all home Internet access is via Broadband.
Dialup has fallen t..... | | |
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| | | Fri 24th Aug 2007 09:53 | Source: Office of National Statistics | |
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| Datanets hosting centre offline | | Datanet has suffered a major power outage at their data centre racks - causing all their servers to lose power. Upon reboot further errors were discovered leading to an outage that has lasted most of ..... | | |
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| Its all gone runny over at Egg.com | | Egg.com, an online bank ewas taken offline today by its Network Provider - C&W. Egg claim there is nothing they can do aboout it. A visit to the site just brings up the usual for this situations "..... | | |
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| | | Thu 23rd Aug 2007 12:32 | Source: Press Release | |
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| Email? What email...? | | PlusNet aiming for the record of the number of different ways they can lose customers emails - have managed to do it again. We`re losing count of how many times it is..... | | |
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| BB4G launched by freedom2Surf | | | | Mon 20th Aug 2007 12:13 | Source: Freedom2Surf | |
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| Its boomtime for online traders | | According to research from the "Interactive Media in Retail Group" July was a bumper month for online sales - up 80% on 2006.
In July 2006 an impressive £2.34bn was spent online, however thi..... | | |
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| | | Mon 20th Aug 2007 10:00 | Source: Press Release | |
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| Free laptop with Broadband offer is finished | | As quickly as it came - its over. The draw of a free £300 laptop from PCWorld if you took up Orange`s broadband for 24 months has been too much for 10,000 or so people - and now there are none l..... | | |
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| OFT clears Tiscali to purchase Pipex | | Today the Office Of Fair Trading (OFT) has cleared Tiscali`s purchase of Pipex.
Their statement is as brief as the line above - so to add a bit of substance to this story. The rumoured purch..... | | |
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| | | Fri 17th Aug 2007 10:15 | Source: OFT | |
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| ISPs profiting from problems | | According to research carried out by uSwitch, most of the UK`s ISPs are profiting from Technical support call charges.
although 0845 and even free-phone support is becoming more common the ma..... | | |
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| | | Fri 17th Aug 2007 09:55 | Source: uSwitch | |
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| 186k troubled by MS Patches | | ISP 186k has blamed Microsofts routine patch tuesday for congestion and glogging up of its network. And they were not alone, Ian Wild of PlusNet also commented: "W..... | | |
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| 8mbps Broadband £7.99 a month? | | Thats what Supanet are now offering. But as ever - there are catches - you must have migrated in from another provider to them, and switch Other packages your lan..... | | |
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| | | Wed 15th Aug 2007 09:27 | Source: Press Release | |
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| Tiscali now includes Setanta Sports | | Tiscali have today announced they are expanding their Tiscali TV platform (formerly HomeChoice) to include Setanta Sports. Setanta have the rights to a number of Premiership football games and is avai..... | | |
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| ISPs warn BBC about iPlayer | | Some of the UK`s leading ISPs are threatening to block access to the BBCs iPlayer service unless the BBC coughs up cash to cover the cost of their networks.
"The internet was not set u..... | | |
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| | | Mon 13th Aug 2007 08:43 | Source: FT.com | |
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| Gambling websites face UK ban | | Upto one thousand gambling websites (think online casinos and betting sites) will be barred from advertising within the UK from September.
Advertising includes banner adverts on other website..... | | |
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| | | Fri 10th Aug 2007 16:12 | Source: FT | |
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| Internet is a "Wild West" industry | | According to a Government report, published today - the House of Lords is calling for more regulation and control over what it descbes as the "Wild West" Internet industry.
The report states ..... | | |
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| | | Fri 10th Aug 2007 13:23 | Source: Government Report | |
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| Which? asks OfCom to investigate Broadband speeds | | Which? calls on Ofcom and Trading Standards to investigate why there is a huge gap between advertised broadband speeds and the actual speeds users can achieve.
In a recent Which Survey involv..... | | |
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| | | Tue 7th Aug 2007 10:29 | Source: Which? | |
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| Evesham Technolgy goes belly up | | bit of a sad news story, Evesham Technology the much respected but struggling PC manufacter has announced that it entered Administration on Friday 3rd August 2007...... | | |
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| | | Sat 4th Aug 2007 09:02 | Source: Press Release | |
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| O2 to delay the launch of their Broadband service until October | | The headline says it all really, on the back of declining new subscribers and increasing costs in extending their Broadband footprint, O2 hjave announced the planned launch of their Broadband service ..... | | |
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| | | Thu 2nd Aug 2007 11:44 | Source: Press Release | |
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