| There is a lot to be had for free on the internet | | Posted Wednesday, January 25, 2006 6:27:33 PM by Rose Martins | In an attempt to capture a large piece of the internet service market, internet service providers are offering free internet for new customers. Some are offering free internet connections, some free internet access and others are offering free broadband internet. 
Other internet service providers are offering free broadband upgrades to existing customers, to prevent them from changing to another internet service provider that is offering a better free deal.
Once you have your internet connection, especially with a broadband connection, the world of free internet opportunties is open to you. There are free internet radio, free internet music, free internet TV, free internet phones, free internet faxing and almost all internet browers are also free. And it doesn't end at that………..for those of you who love to play computer games, there are free games being offered continuously on the internet.
Whether you prefer poker, cards, word games or a virtual casino………the internet has it all and often for free. And so you might be asking yourself, how exactly do all these businesses make money if everything they offer is for free? Firstly, not everything that appears to be for free on the internet, is actually for free. And secondly, revenue is generated by means of advertising. Most of the pop-ups, banners and sponsored links, are paid for by the company or product being advertised.
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| | | TFN to surf into Internet sunset | | Posted Thursday, February 01, 2007 2:57:01 PM by Blog57 Team | | After nearly 17 years, Tallahassee Free Net (TFN) will soon turn off its servers, shutting down one of America's Internet pioneers. In the spirit and tradition of the always-free information link, the announcement came at the organization's final board meeting. There are still plenty of users, board members said, but the service has now accomplished its original goals and is becoming antiquated. .... | |
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| | | Chris Bosh Q & A | | Posted Sunday, January 21, 2007 12:58:36 PM by Blog57 Team | | Q: It has been reported that your mom Freida has made a point of discussing a book you read every month since you left college? Do you actually still do that? I don't have to. It's just something we do sometimes. We haven't done it in a while. But I always read books, that's one of the things I love. We've just kind of been slipping on the book club thing. Maybe we'll try to start it back up. Q: Do you have a best book or best author? Not right now. Once I get up in the 100 range, I'll have a favourite. .... | |
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| | | Free Wi-Fi for Tempe until Jan. 9 | | Posted Saturday, December 30, 2006 2:56:37 PM by Blog57 Team | | Tempe's only provider of wireless Internet is offering its services free throughout the city through Jan. 9 to promote itself to the thousands of visitors in town for yesterday's Insight Bowl and Sunday's Insight Fiesta Bowl Block Party. Any resident or visitor in Tempe with a Wi-Fi equipped computer can click on the WAZtempe Web site and get free service. Normally, it costs $4.95 an hour, $9.95 a day or $29.95 a month, although some areas in downtown Tempe are free all the time. "It's kind of an exciting thing to offer a city," said Alan Crancer, vice president of sales and marketing for the provider, Kite Networks Inc., of Ridgeland, Miss. .... | |
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| | | Wellstar Partners with Wandering WiFi to Offer Patients Free ... | | Posted Friday, December 01, 2006 12:58:45 PM by Blog57 Team | | Wandering WiFi, a wireless technology solutions provider, has successfully integrated its high-security solution with WellStar Health System's existing wireless network to offer patients and visitors free Internet access at all five of its hospitals. Using the virtual local area network (VLAN) technology already in place and integrating a virtual private network (VPN), Wandering WiFi was able to add an encryption layer to WellStar's existing secure network to separate official hospital information from traffic generated by hotspot users. With the additional Wandering WiFi technology now in place, WellStar also has the ability to track and monitor all traffic from a central location, prioritize bandwidth utilization and restrict access to sites with objectionable content. WellStar Health System includes five not-for-profit, community-based hospitals and more than 11,000 healthcare professionals that deliver healthcare for a community exceeding 600,000 people.... | |
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| | | Sun to offer Java code for free on the Internet | | Posted Tuesday, November 14, 2006 3:00:25 AM by Blog57 Team | | Sun Microsystems said Monday that it would make its Java software a free product in a move that represented one of the largest additions of computer code to the open- source community. Java will be distributed under a licensing plan that lets developers view and modify the software and also distribute it for free with other open- source technology, Sun said. Sun created the Java programming language in 1995 to give developers a way to write software once and have it run on different devices and operating systems. Until now, Sun has kept a protective hold on Java to ensure that implementations remain compatible, and it even won $20 million from Microsoft in 2001 after challenging Microsoft's modifications to the program. "The current licensing had made it difficult to package and redistribute the Java platform by Linux and open-source developers," said Stephen O'Grady, a technology analyst with RedMonk in Denver.... | |
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| | | Google CEO sees free mobile phone future | | Posted Sunday, November 12, 2006 3:09:22 AM by Blog57 Team | | Google Inc.'s chief executive, Eric Schmidt, sees a future where mobile phones are free to consumers who accept watching targeted forms of advertising. Schmidt said on Saturday that as mobile phones become more like handheld computers and consumers spend as much as eight to 10 hours a day talking, texting and using the Web on these devices, advertising becomes a viable form of subsidy. .... | |
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| | | Yahoo, Linksys roll out phone that can call Internet | | Posted Friday, November 10, 2006 7:03:19 AM by Blog57 Team | | SAN FRANCISCO -- Yahoo and Linksys rolled out a new telephone in the United States on Thursday that lets people make free Internet calls as well as traditional analog calls. The dual-mode cordless telephone made by Linksys, a division of Cisco Systems, used Yahoo Messenger software to access Internet services including digital online calling. "Yahoo Messenger and Linksys are giving consumers the flexibility to make and receive free Internet calls from the same phone they use for their home line," said Yahoo Real Time Communications director Jeff Bonforte. The telephone also lets people search the Internet for the telephone numbers of local restaurants or businesses using their US Postal Service zip codes and then get instantly connected. Internet calls between Yahoo Messenger voice service users anywhere in the world are free, which has been the standard for Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) services from industry stalwarts including Skype, Google and Microsoft.... | |
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| | | Input / Output | | Posted Wednesday, November 08, 2006 1:00:00 PM by Blog57 Team | | Shaw announced its High-Speed Nitro Internet service, which will let you download at 25 Mbps and upload at one Mbps. The service, available in Edmonton, Calgary, Saskatoon, Winnipeg, Vancouver and Victoria starts Nov. 15 and includes a 150 GB per month download limit and all the goodies of its other lower speed settings rate plans. - Touted by Shaw as the fastest in Canada, Viper will cost $99.95 per month, with a purchased modem. Too much? Not if you want fast ... like five times faster than Shaw's regular service. "I downloaded my wedding DVD movie faster with Nitro than it took to copy it from disc to computer," said Peter Bissonnette, president of Shaw Communications. But Peter, are you not encouraging customers to download illegal music and movies? "The Internet is made of all sorts of apples and potatoes and vegetables and every kind of person and usage you can conceive of," said Shaw.... | |
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| | | Taiwan market: Nearly 87% of Internet surfers have used on-line audio/video services | | Posted Wednesday, November 08, 2006 2:58:27 AM by Blog57 Team | | Of Internet surfers in Taiwan, 86.6% have used on-line audio/video services, according to a survey of 3,817 surfers conducted by Taiwan-based research company InsightXplorer on October 8-10 of this year. Out of those using the services, 79.7% used the service on a free basis while the remaining 6.9% paid. Of the Internet surfers who have used on-line audio/video services, 17.3% uploaded self-produced or self-edited films onto blogs or vlogs (video blogs). .... | |
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| | | Voluntary program begins Internet sales tax for Vermonters | | Posted Monday, November 06, 2006 3:01:32 AM by Blog57 Team | | The days of tax-free Internet shopping are fading. Starting Jan. 1, 2007, state residents will pay Vermont sales tax on Internet purchases if the transaction is made with one of the 1,047 companies that have signed on to the "streamlined sales tax project," said Michael Wasser, a policy analyst for the Vermont Department of Taxes. The tax project adds local and state sales taxes to the cost of the Internet sale -- assuming the shopper lives in one of the 21 states participating in the program. "Internet sales continue to grow year to year. ... It's creating a problem because our tax base is eroding over time," Wasser said. The voluntary program is projected to have a 15 percent compliance rate from online retailers and send $3.1 million to Vermont's coffers in fiscal year 2007, said Sara Teachout, a fiscal analyst with the Legislative Joint Fiscal Office.... | |
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