General Motors could build a powerful wireless data network with its OnStar satellite system, but it says OnStar will remain ISP-neutral for now.
The company sees a day when any company--soapmaker, shoe marketer, airline, bank--can act as an Internet service provider (ISP). 1stUp's angle: The marketers pay 1stUp to provide the behind-the-curtain ISP service they offer, giving it away to gain an intimate, ongoing relationship with customers.
About three-quarters of the respondents said their ISP should regulate spam, and one-third of them said their ISP was doing a poor or very poor job, the survey showed.
Tiscali, based in Soru's hometown of Cagliari, Sardinia, will serve 6 million people in 15 European countries, making it the second-largest European ISP behind Deutsche Telekom's T-Online.
Juno is equipped with a Leros-1b apogee engine prepared by Moog-ISP of Westcott.
Europe's leading internet service provider (ISP) T-Online has surprised analysts by reporting better-than-expected profit in the third quarter, putting it on track for its first profitable year.
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The membership of The American Association of Inside Sales Professionals ( AA-ISP) boasts companies like IBM, ADP, 3M, Abbot, Cisco, Dupont, EMC, FedEx, Hershey, HON Company, Level 3, LexisNexis, McGraw-Hill, McKesson, Oracle, Pfizer, and salesforce.com to mention a few.
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And when they do, the age of the mom-and-pop ISP shop will be gone for good.
Shares of the Singapore-based ISP have more than doubled since the beginning of January.
More recently, French President Nicolas Sarkozy unveiled a plan that would mandate country-wide ISP filtering of copyright infringing content.
Upload speeds also varied, with DSL again dipping the lowest at 95-percent of what's advertised -- might be time to ask your phone-based ISP for a partial refund, no?
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Netherlands-based ISP XS4ALL has one of the Freedom servers, and although it does not sell the Freedom software to its users, it offers all 70, 000 of its users an extended four-month trial version.
Since the beginning of 2003, Kennedy has had long positions in Indian portal Rediff.com (nasdaq: REDF - news - people ) and Israeli ISP Internet Gold (nasdaq: IGLD - news - people ).
The firm envisions a day when any company, from soapmaker to shoe marketer to airline or bank, can act as an Internet service provider. 1stUp's angle: The marketers pay 1stUp to provide the behind-the-curtain ISP service they offer, giving it away to gain an intimate, ongoing relationship with customers.
Despite the intimate nature of those searches, privacy advocates have remained silent--if suspicious--about Hitwise's co-opting of ISP data.
Richard Li needs HKT for its half-a million ISP customers, for its fiber optic cables that circle every narrow Hong Kong alley and for some of its broadband ventures, like Star TV.
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The truth is the ISP business is characterized by wafer-thin margins, low barriers to entry, flat-rate pricing, intense national competition and high customer support costs.
As I understand the new agreement and subsequent comments, which are about as cryptic as a copy-protected DVD, ISP's have agreed to implement a standardized "graduated response plan" through which offending users are warned, restricted and eventually cut off from the Internet for successive violations.
My friends are paying for an anti-virus subscription when their ISP will give them one for free.
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This did not help LineOne - even though both the ISP and its telecom partner Quip were 50% owned by BT.
Until a year ago, most European web surfers had to pay twice for their internet access - a fee to their ISP and the cost of a local telephone call each time they logged on.
Rather than adopting broad-brush regulations that place ISP practices that may benefit consumers off limits, the FCC could adopt a simple rule prohibiting ISPs from engaging in practices that constitute an abuse of significant and non-transitory market power that harm consumers.
Granted, the monthly amount is roughly what you'd pay for unlimited dial-up access from a major ISP anyway.
Under Swedish law, all military exports have to be regulated by the independent Swedish Agency for Non-Proliferation and Export Controls (ISP).
Data shared with the BBC by one ISP which wished to remain anonymous showed that peer-to-peer traffic dipped when the Pirate Bay block initially happened but returned to normal levels within a week.
Virgin Media has become the latest UK ISP to block access to Newzbin 2, a members-only site which provides links to pirated films and music.
FreedomPop, the free Wi-Fi company that is looking to disrupt the ISP and broadband markets, is now planning to get into tablets.
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