Overwhelmed users ditch broadband for dial-up
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Also: Microsoft plans new BizTalk release for this year. [News.com Extra]
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Having an always-on, fast net connection is changing the way Britons use the internet, research suggests.
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Plans to lay an undersea fiber-optic cable off eastern Africa could be the beginning of the end of crackling long-distance calls, slow dial-up Internet connections and universities without e-mail.
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First person: What's a telecommuter to do when the Web telephony service vanishes?
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More than 300 communities consider launching local high-speed Internet service.
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Jon Oltsik says the explosion in broadband use forces a rethinking of Internet security. But a lethargic vendor response is not a promising harbinger.
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Early Internet entrepreneurs envisioned a day when consumers would devour short bites of entertainment on their computer screens delivered over the Internet by fat broadband pipes. When the companies failed, executives blamed it on ...
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More phone and cable companies promise high-speed Internet access, but how is a consumer to know?
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AOL's significant upgrade of AOL News launched today, but some new features had to be turned off so that the site could handle a heavy flow of users.
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Ouranous follows Aramiska into silence Users of the Ouranous satellite broadband service found themselves cut off last Wednesday without explanation or warning. Ouranous took on many of Aramiskaâs customers when that company unplugged itself in January.â¦
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By the end of the year, broadband Internet use in the U.S. will cross the 50 percent mark, according to market research firm Parks Associates, with more than 60 million households connecting to the Internet at 200 kilobits per second or faster.
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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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Hoping to extend wireless internet access to people without broadband, a Texas company is introducing a base station that works with any dialup connection. But don't expect it to make pages load any faster. By Elisa Batista.
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Internet decisions aren't always made at Internet speeds.
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Broadband users are less happy with customer service and more ready to switch than ever, says a survey.
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Social-networking sites are using up such huge amounts of bandwidth that ISPs, universities, and businesses struggle to keep pace.
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Advertisers are struggling to adapt to the migration of millions of highly sought after young consumers who are being drawn away from conventional TV and print to a new form of TV, video and social networking on the Internet.