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- EarthLink big plan to make dial-up faster: Use mobile sites
- Dialup . . .It's been forever since I've heard any news about dialup . . .10 to 12 mil? Still that many people?I suppose it's still the cheapest.I suppose for them, the mobile sites is the best way to go.
- Tags: Advertising & Promotion, mobile, EarthLink Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-09-29
- 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. by Larry Dignan
- Tags: EarthLink Inc., Mobile, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-09-29
- Earthlink Access Numbers (Mobile)
- Now you can carry all U.S. Earthlink access numbers wherever you go! This database contains over 1200 earthlink access numbers current as of 3/1/00. You'll need MobileDB Lite freeware or MobileDB (Shareware, $14.95) to access this database so download it here or at www.mobilegeneration.com
- Tags: EarthLink Inc., Mobile, MemoWare, Storage, Databases, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- Software downloads 2009-07-08
- 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 dial-up access and some are staying amid a weak economy. Bottom line: Even though these dial-up customers...
- Tags: EarthLink Inc., Operational Accounting, Personal Finance, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-04-28
- 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 conducting user surveys among car buyers, J.D. Power also measures user satisfaction with broadband ISPs around the...
- Tags: J.D. Power Associates, EarthLink Inc., Comcast Corp., Internet Service Provider, Survey, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Cable, Network Technology, Internet, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Networking, Sean Portnoy
- Blog posts 2008-11-02
- 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 dial-up business is dying, but it still throws off cash and still has 8.1 million subscribers....
- Tags: EarthLink Inc., Time Warner Inc., America Online Inc., Liberty Media Corp., Asset Management, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-12
- 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 city and nonprofits groups to to hand the $17 million network over but couldn't come to...
- Tags: EarthLink Inc., City, Network, Networking, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-05-14
- Earthlink finally pulls out of Wireless Philly, but all is not lost
- Earthlink finally pulls out of Wireless Philly, but all is not lostStuff and nonsense>From day one, the purpose of Philly's network is to increase digital inclusion and economic development. The measure of their success should be how lives and businesses are being helped in disadvantaged communities.The city to stick to...
- Tags: Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Wireless Philly, wireless, EarthLink Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-05-14
- 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 model that simply didn't work," said Rolla Huff, chief executive of the Atlanta-based Internet services...
- Tags: EarthLink Inc., City, Network, Municipal Wi-Fi, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-05-13
- No Brotherly Love: EarthLink will pull its Wi-Fi network from Philly
- No Brotherly Love: EarthLink will pull its Wi-Fi network from PhillyNo surprise there[u]EX[/u] Mayor John Street did very little beyond appointing unqualified friends and family to high paying posts in the city, many times leaving under corruption charges or the like.I guess whoever he put in place to run this...
- Tags: Wireless LANs, WIRELESS, Brotherly Love, Philly, Wi-Fi network, EarthLink Inc., Wi-Fi, network
- Discussion threads 2008-05-13
- 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 its gear. EarthLink says in a statement: After months of negotiations with...
- Tags: EarthLink Inc., Network, Wi-Fi Network, City, Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Networking, Wireless, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-13
- The summer that Muni Wi-Fi died
- The summer that Muni Wi-Fi diedSelective reading.The failure of municipal wifi was in part the result of agreements in which private companies agreed to make the investment necessary and municipalities agreed to let them. Mr. Wu calls the companies "underqualified". The word "foolish" is an alternative.The reason more...
- Tags: Wireless LANs, WIRELESS, EarthLink Inc., municipal Wi-Fi, Wi-Fi
- Discussion threads 2007-10-03
- EarthLink Uncovers the Right Marketing Messages and Product Offers to Keep Customers Coming Back
- EarthLink has capitalized on the mantra that it's cheaper to keep existing customers than acquire new ones. So when it decided to expand from a traditional ISP into new lines of business, it wanted to make sure that it kept its existing base of customers engaged. The challenge was to...
- Tags: EarthLink Inc., Customer, SAS Institute, Marketing Research, Marketing
- Case studies 2007-10-01
- EarthLink's woes put free muni Wi-Fi in peril
- EarthLink's woes put free muni Wi-Fi in perilunlicensed Wi-Fi signals; no No NOContinuing with the message. In the USA every resident has a RIGHT to FREE UNIVERSAL WIRELESS BROADBAND ACCESS to Web 2.0. The air waives that will be used are the < 1Ghz band that is currently under utilized...
- Tags: Web 2.0, Wireless LANs, WIRELESS, EarthLink Inc., U.S. Government, Wi-Fi, municipal Wi-Fi
- Discussion threads 2007-08-31
- 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 beta soon. There are enough fixes and changes to make you wonder if...
- Tags: EarthLink Inc., Podcast, Gateway Inc., Microsoft Windows Vista, Acer Inc., Microsoft Windows Vista SP1, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-08-30
- 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 dropped the axe, announcing a restructuring and the layoff of 900 employees. "While we...
- Tags: Job, EarthLink Inc., City, Network, Health Care, Wireless Network, Wireless, ZDNet Government
- Blog posts 2007-08-29
- 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 corporate statement citing reasons and intent for the downshift, Larry casts doubts...
- Tags: EarthLink Inc., Colleague Larry Dignan, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2007-08-29
- EarthLink restructures, cuts 900 jobs
- EarthLink restructures, cuts 900 jobsIt's no surprise...I was a loyal Earthlink subscriber from 2000 to 2005. Once they outsourced the tech. support to India and the Philippines, it was simply a matter of time before people would get frustrated and leave.That's certainly not to say anyone from those regions...
- Tags: Recruitment & Selection, DSL, Outsourcing, language barrier, signal quality, job, EarthLink Inc.
- Discussion threads 2007-08-29
- 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 undercuts the Microsoft/Novell deal Ryan Naraine: MSN Messenger vulnerable to 'highly...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., EarthLink Inc., GPL, Larry Dignan, MSN, MSN Messenger, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., GPLv3, Flaw
- Blog posts 2007-08-29
- 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 on Tuesday, comes as the company is repositioning for the future. Rolla P. Huff, EarthLink President and CEO, said: "These changes get...
- Tags: Job, EarthLink Inc., Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2007-08-28
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