On Friday, Google and Earthlink came to finalized terms on the contract to build infrastructure for a free wireless network for the city of San Francisco. The city’s Board of Supervisors must now approve the deal in order for the companies to move forward with construction.
Earthlink Catches Rubel In Its Closet
Earthlink learned a valuable lesson about this here Internet thingy: if you have a new product you don’t want people to know about yet, keep it off the Web and the hell away from Steve Rubel. The ISP best known for being ancient and for quirky cross-eyed girl commercials “quietly” launched an RSS reader and social bookmarking site.
Google, EarthLink Win S.F. WiFi Deal
The City of San Francisco finished its review of proposals to create a city-wide wireless broadband network, and chose the EarthLink/Google submission out of the six finalist proposals they considered.
Google/Earthlink Wins San Francisco Wifi Contract
San Francisco’s city panel has chosen a Google/Earthlink partnership to build a free municipal wifi network for the city.
EarthLink Saves Big Easy From BellSouth
EarthLink will continue to provide free wireless access in New Orleans by assuming management of the city’s WiFi network and investing some $15 million over three years to improve and build out that network.
Earthlink Versus Microsoft: Phishing Contest
Microsoft announced yesterday the launch of the first ever add-in phishing protection, currently in a beta version. It helps provide “powerful dynamic protection” against the phishermen of the net. Earthlink has a bone to pick with the Seattle slew however. They say they’ve had a free tool available for over a year.
EarthLink Start Page Available to All
Building on the success of its Personal Start Page, EarthLink, the nation’s next generation Internet service provider, today announced that its free, customizable gateway to the Internet – the myEarthLink start page – is available for non-EarthLink subscribers.
EarthLink and SK Join Forces
EarthLink and SK Telecom are forming a joint venture to market wireless voice and data services in the U.S.
Earthlink To Try Out Yahoo Spam Plan
EarthLink plans to become the first major ISP to test DomainKeys, a cryptographic e-mail authentication solution introduced by Yahoo designed to fight e-mail forgery and phishing.
America Online, EarthLink, Microsoft and Yahoo! Sue Over Spam
“Today is a red-letter day for big-time spammers, and the letters they should remember from this day forward are ‘CAN-SPAM,'” said AOL Executive Vice President and General Counsel Randall Boe.