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EarthLink Will Shutter Philadelphia Network, Company Says

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2008-05-13 09:48:07 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
...EarthLink that they announced via press release today The company plans to pull all its gear from the poles starting 12-June-2008. The company's press release said it offered to give the network at no cost to an unnamed non-profit, as well as to the city, but claimed that "unresolved issues" led to the effort falling apart. EarthLink offered...
 
Tags: network, wi-fi, philadelphia wi-fi network, earthlink, network provider, philadelphia, public access network, company, earthlink filed
 
 
 
 
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Corpus Christi Cuts EarthLink's Cord

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2008-04-14 15:46:27 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
...EarthLink of its Wi-Fi network: The network was originally built by the city to support municipal purposes, such as meter reading, and was sold to EarthLink for $5.3m plus $340,000 in other revenues, the local paper reports. The sale was reported back in March 2007 as a way for the city to gain better coverage without investing their own...
 
Tags: support municipal purposes, municipal purposes, earthlink, municipal, municipal networks based, corpus christi, network, wi-fi network, city council
 
 
 
 
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EarthLink Shutters New Orleans, Staunches Own Losses

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2008-04-25 15:52:07 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
...EarthLink's pullout: InformationWeek reports that EarthLink attempted to sell the network, get the city to buy it, and then to simply give the network (and its obligations) away, but had no takers on any front EarthLink announced its most recent quarter's earnings a few days ago, and they managed to turn a GAAP profit, while staunching the...
 
Tags: earthlink, slightly lower churn, slightly, lower, loss, increasingly poor access, earnings, drop, noticeable drop
 
 
 
 
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EarthLink Powers Down Anaheim

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2008-07-30 21:56:51 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
...EarthLink municipal efforts shuts down: Forgot about Anaheim, Calif.'s EarthLink Wi-Fi network? Me, too. It was once the showcase, with a several sq mi buildout, the largest in the EarthLink system, and a place where VoIP over Wi-Fi was in heavy testing. The network's equipment will be pulled from poles no later than Sept. 30, the Orange...
 
Tags: earthlink wi-fi network, wi-fi, network, earthlink system, anaheim, sept, buildout, heavy, poles
 
 
 
 
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EarthLink redirect service poses security risk, expert says

2008-04-19 13:00:00 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
A redirect service deployed by EarthLink and other ISPs to handle mistyped Web-page requests may have given attackers an opening with which to launch undetectable phishing attacks
 
Tags: redirect service, earthlink, launch undetectable, web-page requests, isps, attacks, attackers, handle
 
 
 
 
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EarthLink redirect service poses security risk, expert says

2008-04-19 00:00:00 by Robert McMillan in Network World on Security
 
A vulnerability in servers used by EarthLink to handle mistyped Web page requests may have allowed attackers to launch undetectable phishing attacks against any Internet site, according to a noted Internet security researcher
 
Tags: web page requests, internet site, earthlink, launch undetectable, attacks, attackers, handle, vulnerability, servers
 
 
 
 
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Phila. Gives Up on EarthLink

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2008-05-14 20:55:06 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
...EarthLink network up and running: The last paragraph is quite classic: Without going into details, city spokesman [Douglas] Oliver said there clearly were maintenance and upgrading challenges that came with the free infrastructure. "How many times has someone not taken $17 million worth of something without there being a pretty good reason?"...
 
Tags: free infrastructure, earthlink network, million worth, challenges, reason, details, efforts, pursue, pretty
 
 
 
 
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Earthlink and the devil's spam filter

2008-08-20 00:00:00 by HASH0x8b80764 in Network World on Security
 
Breaking away from the traditional Q&A format today, I'd like to offer a small piece of advice to Earthlink customers
 
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MetroFi Plans Market Exit: Sale or Shutter

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2008-05-15 21:47:12 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
...EarthLink's municipal wireless division as a separate operation, and Kite Networks, which was a subsidiary of a larger telecom firm. Each company had made a unique network hardware choice--MetroFi, SkyPilot; Kite, Strix; and EarthLink Tropos plus Motorola--and each had a sort of specialty. Interestingly, a fifth firm, BelAir powers Toronto (a...
 
Tags: metro-scale wi-fi, wi-fi, large-city wi-fi network, wi-fi providers, wi-fi network, york wi-fi plan, city, city dollars, super-fast wi-fi network
 
 
 
 
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Hacking ISP Error Pages

2008-04-24 06:43:52 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...Earthlink instead intercepts that Non-Existent Domain (NXDOMAIN) response and sends the IP address of ad-partner Barefruit's server as the answer. When the browser visits that page, the user sees a list of suggestions for what site the user might have actually wanted, along with a search box and Yahoo ads The rub comes when a user is asking...
 
Tags: server, dns server tells, official google site, site, dns, real paypal page, paypal, google, logged-in user