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EarthLink big plan to make dial-up faster: Use mobile sites
EarthLink is using a novel way to boost dial-up access speeds: Ignore the fancy graphics and go right to the mobile versions of Web sites.
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Dial-up Internet access: A fine business to milk?
There are few things less hip than dial-up Internet access. Most folks don't even remember what a dial-up modem sounds (or looks) like. Nevertheless, there are millions of people that use pokey...
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Survey reveals favorite ISPs around the United States. None of them is Comcast.
The heart of any wireless network is its Internet connection, since sharing Web access among multiple computers is one of its most (if not the most) important tasks. While its best known for...
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AOL's dial-up business: Is there a (minor) bidding war brewing?
AOL's dial-up business may be worth a little more than expected--especially if Liberty Media and EarthLink get into a bidding skirmish for Time Warner's most unloved asset. Let's be clear: AOL's...
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City walks away from $17m network
Who wants a free Wi-Fi network? Not Philadelphia. After Earthlink pulled out of Philly Wireless Tuesday, the city wants no part of the network. Apparently Earthlink had been negotiating with the...
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Earthlink finally pulls out of Wireless Philly, but all is not lost
The final nail in the coffin of municipal Wi-Fi was hammered today as Earthlink pulled the plug on Philadelphia's wireless program, as the Wall Street Journal reports. "This was about a business...
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No Brotherly Love: EarthLink will pull its Wi-Fi network from Philly
EarthLink on Tuesday threw in the towel on its Philadelphia Wi-Fi project, which the ISP was trying to transfer to a non-profit or the city's operating group. Now EarthLink is trying to pull out...
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Citywide Wi-Fi isn't dead yet
Even as EarthLink is scaling back deployments, some cities and regional networks are pushing forward with plans to build citywide Wi-Fi networks.
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Week in review: EarthLink woes eclipse Wi-Fi plans
EarthLink's financial concerns imperil muni Wi-Fi projects, and Microsoft readies Vista's first major update. Also: Piracy versus privacy.
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EarthLink's woes put free muni Wi-Fi in peril
EarthLink says it can't afford to foot the bill to build citywide Wi-Fi networks, jeopardizing cities' plans to provide low-income residents with affordable broadband.
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Podcast: Vista SP1, Acer + Gateway, Earthlink's woes and more...
This week on the Dan & David Show my Between the Lines colleague Larry Dignan fills in for the vacationing David Berlind. We discuss the news this week about Vista Service Pack 1 coming out in...
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Earthlink cuts 900 jobs, tries to transform muni wireless biz
EarthLink -- formerly the name in municipal Wi-Fi -- has been signaling its exit from the business of building wireless networks for cities without getting paid upfront. Tuesday, CEO Rolla P. Huff...
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Thoughts on the decline of EarthLink- and a way for them to come back
Colleague Larry Dignan is the first on our block to run with the story that ISP EarthLink is laying off 900 people, closing several offices, and so forth. After running excerpts of an EarthLink...
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News to know: Vista hot fix; GPL drama; MSN Messenger flaw; Google
Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft releases two Vista hotfix packs via Windows Update Free Software Foundation: No GPLv3 exemptions for Microsoft Ed Burnette: GPLv3 Myth #4: GPLv3...
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EarthLink's Wi-Fi dreams may be fading
Layoffs signal a major setback in the company's effort to break free of its dying dial-up business and become an Internet player.
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EarthLink restructures, cuts 900 jobs
Amid declining subscribers for its Internet services EarthLink unveiled a restructuring that will shutter a handful of locations and eliminate 900 jobs. The restructuring, outlined in a statement...
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Muni Wi-Fi in trouble unless cities cough up some (big) bucks
Not that long ago, municipal Wi-Fi was the talk of the town, so to speak. These days the latest rendition of the information superhighway is getting a bumpy ride, or plenty of static (choose your...
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Ten free security utilities you should already be using
Here's a list of ten free security tools you can and should be using to help protect, disinfect and manage your Windows computer.
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Newsome takes SF Wi-Fi plans to the voters
With the city's Wi-Fi initiative seemingly stuck, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom is trying to turn up the heat by putting the proposal for an ad-based free Wi-Fi network to the voters, the...
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SF Wi-Fi slows down as EarthLink changes its muni biz plan
EarthLink's once-bold plans to build out municipal wireless networks is on hold as new CEO Rolla Huff said the old business model simply doesn't work. "Until we're confident that we can build new...
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