AOL wants to slash 2,500 jobs Nov 20, 2009
He built AOL and sold it to Time Warner at the height of its overinflated value and then bailed out to his Hawaiian pineapple plantation before the dimwits at Time Warner realized the company was based on an unsustainable business plan ($24/month dialup) ... He built AOL and sold it to Time Warner at the height of its overinflated value and then bailed out to his Hawaiian pineapple plantation before the dimwits at Time Warner realized the company was based on an unsustainable business plan... (New York Post -- News)
Net nomads of the electronic age Oct 8, 2009
It was a pattern of life that had emerged for me over years of being freelance, as I put more of my work on a laptop and found that I could generally rely on being connected to the internet when I needed to be, initially over dialup lines 'borrowed' from amenable friends, then via open wireless networks, and now through my 3G dongle. I also benefited greatly from the workings of Moore's Law (which describes the trend that the number of transistors in a chip roughly doubles every two years), as... (BBC News -- Technology)
AOL Seeks New Identity as Publishing Hub Oct 2, 2009
I, like a lot of other people used AOL when I had my first PC. Back then we all used dialup. The internet sure has come a long way from those days. (CBS News)
Obama: Health Mandate Not a Tax Increase Sep 21, 2009
Before DSL and cable I had dialup service and ISP cost was going up every quarter. It got as high as 60 dollars per month for dialup ... With DSL and cable dialup cost returned back to normal because, we have competition. (CBS News)
Central Montana producers discuss farm bill priorities (30) Aug 10, 2009
cannot do it on the computer because I am on dialup and by the time I get through the application, it has all gone away or timed out Also, the payment limitation sustains and substantiates small farms. In my experience, the payment limitation pays more than if you turn the programs loose. (Great Falls Prairie Star, MT)
Net IP Addresses Growing, More Broadband Jul 12, 2009
On a global basis, Akamai reported a 39 percent decline on a year-over-year basis in the number of narrowband connections, which it defines as dialup Internet connections at speeds of 256 Kbps or below. Not all those lost narrowband connections end up as high-speed broadband connections, either: Some users trade up to faster connections that still rank below Akamai's cut-off. (Datamation)
Hanford mulls council chamber renovation May 22, 2009
Alihandero wrote on May 21, 2009 4:02 PM:" Families don't gather around the computer monitor to watch internet programs like on the TV, do they?Besides, for the internet you need a COMCAST cable or AT&T telephone service and modem for dialup or DSL so that makes the cost of watching an internet broadcast just as expensive for the most part, Mr. Chin.Isn't there a public access channel or band for the new digital broadcasts? We used to have public access UHF channels almost everywhere in the U.S.... (Hanford Sentinal, CA)
'Odd incidents' surround Specter switch... May 8, 2009
I've been posting online since the days of dialup BBSs. You jackholes have been predicting a big "backlash" the entire time. (The Drudge Report)
Conficker a Fake, Mafiaboy Claims Apr 17, 2009
He also noted that back in 1999 and 2000, most people were also on dialup Internet connections, which meant there wasn't as much always on-bandwidth to exploit. Nowadays, however, fledgling hackers can readily avail themselves to premade tools and scripts to launch all manner of attacks. (eSecurityPlanet)
Digital tax filing grows in popularity Apr 6, 2009
In a 1986 test, 25,000 refund only federal tax returns were processed by the IRS, sent via dialup modem from special transmission centers in Ohio, North Carolina and Arizona. From such small and slow speed beginnings, electronic tax filing officially went nationwide in 1990. (Bismarck Tribune, ND)
Keep watching the skies Mar 27, 2009
The computing cloud was created when the old internet, the one that supported dialup users and file transfer, went supernova with the arrival of fast broadband and smart devices. The sun of Web 2. (BBC News -- Technology)
Tell them to come to my house i'll show them what "UNSERVED" means...26,400 KBPS... Mar 21, 2009
NTIA Seeks Definition Of Unserved, Underserved Broadband Areas - ACA Polka's Says Support For Long-Distance Fiber Lines Will That Ensure Small Ops Can Provide Customers With Speedy Service. John Eggerton -- Multichannel News, March 20, 2009. (Multichannel News)
Speeding up broadband Mar 21, 2009
Web search enhanced by. Saturday March 21, 2009. (The Star Online, Malaysia -- Business)
Netbooks, Linux and the Lenovo S10 Mar 19, 2009
Netbooks, if they had existed, would have been perfect for the geekbeard Internet: plain text over slow dialup connections doesn't need much computing power or high-tech displays. Monochrome LCD displays have been with us since the early 80s, and color in the late 80s, so I wonder if, in a truly innovative and competitive computing marketplace, we could have had netbooks and other portable computing devices way back when. (Datamation)
Distance Education's Frequently Ask... Mar 6, 2009
This is why dialup Internet access is typically too slow to handle distance education. How do I interact with course instructors. (Suite101.com)
New combined 3G/ADSL2+ broadband service Feb 24, 2009
To date, telcos haven't been willing to offer a 3G broadband service as part of the same plan as the home broadband, instead trying to extract a separate hunk of cash for the 'additional' 3G service -- even though ISPs have been offering free dialup with broadband accounts for years ... Gotalk's Sabin also told APC about a new service for all existing customers at no extra cost -- a "reserve tank" of gigs that lets people keep downloading at full speed when they'd otherwise have been slowed to... (Australian Personal Computer)
Data recovery sought on BuffNET servers Feb 20, 2009
On Jan. 20, just 12 days after Hovey s e-mail to clients regarding the discontinuation of dialup and DSL services, Prigg and network specialist Mark Harris drove to BuffNET and returned with 17 hard drives and nine computers. We re not sure whether all the Web sites are on them, or what percentage we have, said Stives. (Buffalo Business First, NY)
TouchTunes Announces Nationwide Availability of Wireless Broadband Service Feb 13, 2009
While TouchTunes has always offered operators both broadband and dialup options, wireless broadband will bring the benefits of high speed connectivity to those operators for whom it has not been a cost-effective option or has not been available. About TouchTunes Corporation. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
