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Search Engine Watch
January 7, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
Excite Goes To Overture The death of the old Excite search engine happened in December, when new owners InfoSpace dropped results from the Excite crawler in favor of a page heavily dominated by paid listings from Overture...   |
Wired
January 2002
Cory Johnson |
Tools of Self-Destruction What pushed Excite@Home into ruin? Blame it on carelessness -- or something even worse. But don't be confused: It's clear that certain financial decisions made by company board members and executives helped drive Excite@Home to destruction... |
PC World
August 22, 2001
Tom Mainelli |
Excite@Home's Money Trouble Won't Disrupt Service Even if firm folds, broadband cable service is poised to continue... |
Search Engine Watch
May 2, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Excite Next To Go? Excite@Home may be the next to depart the portal playing field, given the signals it has been sending out recently... |
Search Engine Watch
September 4, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Excite May Be Out; FAST Has Further Layoffs The future looks dim for Excite@Home, which operates the Excite search engine. The company has creditors calling in their loans, putting it into possible bankruptcy. Meanwhile, FAST Search has had its second round of layoffs this year... |
PC World
December 3, 2001
Tom Spring |
Severed Broadband Customers Cry Foul Customers aren't happy about being cut off in Excite@Home outage, but AT&T claims service... |
PC World
March 2002
Tom Spring |
Ease Broadband Jitters Wary that your broadband provider may suddenly evaporate? Here are some steps you can take to protect yourself... |
InternetNews
December 23, 2005
Jim Wagner |
China's Broadband Growth Expected to Top U.S. By next year high-speed Internet line growth in China could surpass that in the U.S. |
CIO
July 15, 2005 |
They Want Their DSL While broadband users in the US prefer cable, DSL services are more popular worldwide. |
InternetNews
May 20, 2005
Colin C. Haley |
Cox Broadband Blacks Out An Internet backbone problem leaves Cox Communication's high-speed data customers disconnected. |
Search Engine Watch
October 2, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Excite@Home Goes Bankrupt; AltaVista Cuts Staff Two of the web's oldest search engines had more bad financial news, with Excite@Home filing for bankruptcy last Friday and AltaVista also announcing a new round of layoffs last month... |
PC World
March 30, 2001
Tom Spring |
DSL Hell: NorthPoint Strands Thousands Customers scramble for access as company unplugs network and service providers seek alternatives... |
Search Engine Watch
February 6, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Excite, NBCi Reduce Workforce Along with other search-oriented services, Excite and NBCi also cut staff in January... |
InternetNews
August 10, 2005
Jim Wagner |
Excite@Home To Sell Domain Portfolio The holding company put in charge of the remains of Excite@Home is selling its 119 domain names to the highest bidder. |
PC World
May 15, 2001
Frank Thorsberg |
Does Your PC Harbor Zombies Waiting to Attack? Unprotected broadband connections can leave your PC open to raids by malicious hackers... |
InternetNews
April 30, 2009
Alex Goldman |
Comcast's Internet Grows While Cable Stalls The market appears to be pleased with growth in Comcast's broadband and digital phone businesses. |
InternetNews
August 30, 2004
Roy Mark |
FCC Sends Cable Dispute to Supreme Court Agency wants high court to overturn decision forcing cable companies to share high-speed lines with other ISPs. |
PC World
May 2, 2001
Tom Spring |
Broadband Users Still Sing the Blues High-speed access to the Internet was supposed to be everywhere by now. But financial and technical problems dog the industry... |
InternetNews
May 20, 2005
Tim Gray |
Jeeves Heads to Europe Search engine Ask Jeeves announced Friday it has purchased Excite Italia, the operator of Excite Europe, from Tiscali. |
Wired
January 2002
Frank Rose |
The $7 Billion Delusion Excite@Home promised to merge the search geeks and the cablecos to become the AOL of broadband. Then the tragedy of reality set in... |
PC World
May 2, 2001
Tom Spring |
Verizon Joins Broadband Price Hike Parade AT&T Broadband boosts cable prices as well; other DSL rates have already jumped... |
InternetNews
December 6, 2004
Roy Mark |
Supreme Court to Hear Broadband Access Case Justices will review the 9th Circuit decision that overturned the FCC on cable modem providers sharing their fiber optic lines with ISPs. |
InternetNews
December 23, 2003
Roy Mark |
Broadband Growth Slightly Cools High-speed connections increased 18% during the first half of 2003 to put 23.5 million lines into service. |
InternetNews
October 17, 2005
Jim Wagner |
Yahoo, BellSouth Become Portal Partners The Internet portal giant adds another co-branding partner to its broadband access portfolio. |
IEEE Spectrum
October 2005
Willie D. Jones |
United States Establishes "Level Playing Field" in Broadband--Or Does It? Reversing a longtime stance, the FCC no longer maintains that offering consumers broadband services on attractive terms requires there to be competing providers of digital subscriber line, or DSL, service. |
InternetNews
April 21, 2005
Colin C. Haley |
Comcast, Time Warner to Carve Up Adelphia Adelphia's 5 million subscribers will be divvied in $17.6 billion deal as cable consolidation rolls on. |
InternetNews
June 2, 2005
Colin C. Haley |
Broadband Subs Pull Into Passing Lane The number of U.S. households with high-speed Internet connections is about to pass dial-up. That's welcome news for more than just ISPs. |
InternetNews
July 21, 2004
Colin C. Haley |
Comcast, Disney Patch Differences Months after Disney rebuffed Comcast's takeover bid, the companies ink an online content/distribution pact. |
InternetNews
March 19, 2009
Alex Goldman |
Will the Stimulus Cash Flow to ISPs? With the government planning to spend billions on Internet infrastructure, decision makers face a conundrum. |
InternetNews
September 27, 2004
Colin C. Haley |
Comcast, TW Mull Joint Adelphia Bid The companies may team to buy the bankrupt cable provider to maximize the chances of success. |
InternetNews
December 23, 2004
Colin C. Haley |
U.S. Broadband Lines Jump 15 Percent The number of home and business broadband lines in the United States jumped 15 percent to 32.5 million during the first half of 2004, according to new data released by the Federal Communications Commission. |
InternetNews
April 19, 2004
Robyn Greenspan |
The Broadband Tipping Point Propelled by a surge in DSL subscriptions, more than half of American Internet users have high-speed access. |
InternetNews
July 30, 2004
Colin C. Haley |
Broadband Battles Bring Benefits Consumers see high-speed access rates drop as cable and DSL companies look to lock-in subscribers. |
InternetNews
August 17, 2009 |
U.S. Broadband Growth Slowest in Eight Years A new report finds the pace slowing even beyond seasonal norms - while the stimulus won't help soon, and may never fix the problem. |
InternetNews
January 29, 2004
Ron Miller |
Broadband Poised for Takeoff The U.S. broadband market is set to double by 2008, according to a new Jupiter Research report. |
Search Engine Watch
November 5, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Excite Closes NewsTracker, Search Voyeur Excite is closing its NewsTracker service as of November 15, while its Search Voyeur live display feature closed last month... |
InternetNews
April 1, 2004
Roy Mark |
Court Refuses to Review FCC Modem Rule Ninth Circuit upholds decision saying cable broadband is subject to common carrier rules. |
InternetNews
January 30, 2006
Ed Sutherland |
AOL Tempts Dial-Up Users American Online turns to cable modem and DSL carriers to help encourage dial-up subscribers to adopt its broadband service. |
InternetNews
February 10, 2006
Roy Mark |
Video Competition Boosting Broadband Penetration High-speed Internet service is riding on the battle between Bells and cable companies. |
InternetNews
June 17, 2009
Kenneth Corbin |
Study Finds Broadband Adoption Up 15% Americans say broadband is more valuable than cell or cable service, according to Pew research. |
Search Engine Watch
June 4, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Excite Kills Magellan; WebCrawler Remains Excite@Home's Magellan search service, long abandoned by users and Excite itself, was finally put out of its misery and quietly closed about two months ago... |
Home Toys
August 2003
Mike Wolf |
Catching Customers with Home Networks, Part 1 Cable companies are getting into the business of home networking -- offering equipment, as well as installation and management services. |
InternetNews
May 10, 2005
Colin C. Haley |
Comcast Guns For AOL's Spot Comcast's COO thinks bundles and broadband apps will help it eventually displace AOL as the top U.S. ISP. |
PC World
September 2005
Jeff Bertolucci |
Proposed DSL Rules Threaten Small ISPs FCC may release phone companies from obligation to let other ISPs lease DSL lines, leaving small ISP companies are worried about their future. |
The Motley Fool
April 28, 2004
Phil Wohl |
Comcast Is a Cash Machine The big immediate news was Comcast's withdrawal of its $48.4 billion hostile takeover bid to acquire Disney. The other quieter but just as important news from the cable giant was its first-quarter earnings announcement. |
InternetNews
April 30, 2010 |
ISPs Urge FCC to Resist Broadband Regulation A band of cable and telecom firms and their lobbying organizations issue a warning to Federal Communications Commission telling it to keep broadband unregulated. |
InternetNews
June 27, 2005
Roy Mark |
Court Backs Cable in Brand X Case The Supreme Court ruled that cable broadband providers do not have to share their lines with independent Internet service providers. |
BusinessWeek
March 1, 2004
Rosenbush et al. |
Broadband: What's The Holdup? The U.S. lags far behind global leaders such as Korea and Japan, where broadband is far faster and cheaper, thanks to more focused national policy, less cumbersome regulation, and more densely populated regions. What's holding up the US with broadband? |
InternetNews
February 7, 2006
Roy Mark |
No New Laws For Net Neutrality? The cable and telephone industries again insisted Tuesday they have no plans or intentions to block either Internet content or applications over their high-speed broadband networks. |
The Motley Fool
September 22, 2008
David Lee Smith |
Comcast Adds a Second Gear Comcast may have arrived at a broadband management plan that could both satisfy the Federal Communications Commission and set a standard for other Internet companies trying to deal with heavy bandwidth users. |
