File TalkTalk Business.png 150px company type Subsidiary company slogan foundation 1990 as Pipex br ... business divisions of telecommunications companies that have been taken over including Pipex, Opal Telecom, Freedom2surf, Nildram and Tiscali. PipexPipex was the UK s List of UK ISPs by age first ... ISP in the UK . ref http www.e consultancy.com news blog 362844 oldest uk isp pipex on the block.html ... in 1990 as The Public I.P. Exchange Ltd PIPEX , founded by Peter Dawe. ref name autogenerated1 http ... 1994, Keith Mitchell, then chief technical officer of PIPEX, initiated a meeting with British Telecom BT to discuss the creation of a London based Internet exchange. Pipex donated a Cisco Catalyst ... ref Unipalm Pipex was sold to UUNet in November 1995 for Pound sterling 150 million, where it became UUNet Pipex. ref name autogenerated1 ref http www.scitech2007.com speakers.html SciTech 2003 ref ... Cambridgeshire area East Cambridgeshire On Line News ref The brand became known as Worldcom Pipex ... by Verizon Communications . ref http www.gtnet.gov.uk corporate news GTNet News ref Pipex retains ... Managing Director, when the PIPEX business was transferred to Highway Ltd . ref http www.advfn.com stocks pipex communications plc gxn networks 5422759.html PIPEX Communications plc gxn networks ref In January 2002 Pipex invested 2 million to get 40,000 DSL users online. ref http www.theregister.co.uk 2002 01 25 pipex invests 163 2m Pipex invests 2m to get 40,000 DSL users online ref In October 2003 Pipex was acquired by GX Networks plc, who retained the Pipex name, renaming itself to Pipex Communications plc . ref http www.theregister.co.uk 2003 10 03 gx networks to buy pipex GX buys Pipex theregister.co.uk 2003 10 03 ref ref http www.pipexgroup.com pg.asp?p 1163 FREEDOM4 Group ref Pipex remained a strong brand, and an internet service provider market leader. Tiscali UK acquired the Pipex ... buys pipex ref Pipex Business was rebranded as Vialtus and was spun off as a separate company ... more details
daisygroupplc.com Daisy Group plc formerly known as Freedom4 Group plc and Pipex Communications plc ... 2003 acquisition of Pipex by GX Networks , to create Pipex Communications plc. ref http www.theregister.co.uk 2003 10 03 gx networks to buy pipex GX buys Pipex theregister.co.uk 2003 10 03 ref The following month Firstnet Services changed its name to PIPEX Communications Business Solutions . ref http www.pipexgroup.com components download.asp?id 11 Home Page ref Pipex purchased Alternative ... 04 02 pipex acquires host europe Pipex buys Host Europe theregister.co.uk 2004 04 02 ref Pipex acquired ... 08 09 pipex nildram Pipex buys Nildram theregister.co.uk 2004 08 09 ref In 2005 the company purchased Donhost ref http www.theregister.co.uk 2005 04 28 donhost pipexPipex buys Donhost theregister.co.uk 2005 04 28 ref and freedom2surf. ref http www.theregister.co.uk 2005 10 18 pipex f2s Pipex buys ... which traded as Homecall in March 2006. Homecall then began trading as Pipex Homecall. ref http www.theregister.co.uk 2006 03 23 pipex caudwell Pipex buys Homecall theregister.co.uk 2006 03 23 ref In 2006 Pipex bought Supanetwork for 2.1 million in cash. ref http www.sjberwin.com events news practice sj berwin llp advises on acquisition of supanetwork limited 2006 07 20.html Pipex buys Supanetwork ... toucan information Pipex buys Toucan ref and the customer base of Bulldog Broadband ref http www.bulldoglounge.com announcement.asp Pipex buys Bulldog www.bulldoglounge.com 2006 07 09 ref ... Pipex puts itself up for sale Times Online ref Tiscali UK announced in July that year that it would purchase the Pipex voice and broadband division for 210 million ref http investors.tiscali.com tiscali FinancialPress disclaimer2.jsp?ref 538&cat 9&sub &type html Tiscali to acquire Pipex ... and Voice Division of Pipex Communications plc ref The sale completed in September. ref http www.theregister.co.uk 2007 07 13 tiscali buys pipex ref The remaining assets not sold to Tiscali UK were put ... more details
Notability Companies date March 2008 Unipalm specialised in networking different computers together using TCP IP technology. History Unipalm Ltd was founded as a software reseller in Cambridge in 1986 by Peter Dawe , later forming PIPEX in 1990, as the first commercial Internet service provider ISP in the UK . ref http www.inovatech powerline.com content.asp?ContentId 925 InovaTech PowerLine Network access at every power socket Bot generated title ref In March 1994 Unipalm Group Plc floated on the London Stock Exchange , the purpose of the flotation was to expand the growth of The Public I.P. Exchange Ltd Pipex . In July 1995 the company changed its trading name to Unipalm Pipex. Unipalm PIPEX was sold to UUNet in November 1995 for GBP150 million, where it became UUNET PIPEX . He became Head of European Operations for UUNet Inc., with over 400 staff. Peter left UUNet in July 1996. ref http www.scitech2007.com speakers.html SciTech 2003 Bot generated title ref In December 1996, Mark Norman led a successful management buy out of Unipalm. This re established Unipalm as a separate company, moving location to offices in Newmarket, Suffolk. The company focussed on IP software distribution and services. In May 2000, German based company COMPUTERLINKS acquired 100 of the shares of Unipalm. ref http www.computerlinks.com about management board management board.cfm COMPUTERLINKS Management Board Bot generated title ref The company maintained a high level of independence until 2003 when the Unipalm name was dropped and began trading as COMPUTERLINKS UK. Notes http news.bbc.co.uk 1 hi uk 190310.stm UK Pipex founder to build a town references Cite book first Neil last Costello authorlink Nail Costello year 2000 title Stability and Change in High Tech Enterprises Organisational Practices in Sme s publisher Routledge isbn 0415231213 Category Software companies of the United Kingdom UK company stub ... more details
2011 ref October 2003 GX Networks plc became Pipex Communications plc to maintain the PIPEX brand after a buy out for 55m. ref http www.theregister.co.uk 2003 10 03 gx networks to buy pipex ref 2006 Pipex Communications acquires Supanetwork, better known as SupaNames. March 2008 Due to Pipex Broadband being sold to Tiscali last year, the company known as Pipex Communications UK Ltd is now known as GX Networks Ltd. ref http www.techwatch.co.uk 2008 03 05 pipex renamed gx networks Pipex renamed ... more details
Orphan date February 2009 unreferenced date March 2008 Oleane was one of the first ISP s in France, created in 1990, from UUCP technology. First connected to PSINet , with Telebit modem s, international connectivity moved to UUNET UUNet in 1991. Real IP connections arrived in 1992, with a direct PIPEX UK 64 kbit s link. Oleane was created by Jean Michel Planche, with the help of Paul Rolland, Jean Pierre Le Couedic, Christophe Wolfhugel and Benoit Grang . Oleane was sold in March 1998 to France T l com France Telecom , and ceased to exist as an independent IP services provider around June 2006, being fully renamed as Orange Business services. Category Internet service providers of France ... more details
Unreferenced date January 2009 Following is a history of UK Internet Service Providers ISPs , in order of the date they started trading. 1990 Pipex 1992 06 01 Demon Internet 1993 Pavilion ref http www.shotsmag.co.uk interviews 2009 p james p james.html ref Sold to Easynet from 1st January 2001, but web sites and e mail addresses remain extant under the pavilion.net domain 1994 10 13 Zetnet ref cite web last Smith first Marvin title Fishing The Net........ publisher Shetland Fishing News url http www.users.zetnet.co.uk sfn old internet.htm archiveurl http web.archive.org web 20000226104655 http www.users.zetnet.co.uk sfn old internet.htm archivedate 2000 02 26 ref ref cite web title Zetnet Internet Service publisher PC Home date January 1997 url http www.zetnet.co.uk zetpages pchome accessdate 2007 05 31 ref 1994 Easynet 1994 Dungeon Networks 1995 Flexnet 1995 Power Internet Ltd 1995 Zen Internet 1996 Lumison 1996 Claranet ref cite web url http www.uk.clara.net why claranet international capabilities title International Capabilities, Claranet UK publisher Claranet accessdate 2009 09 15 ref 1996 11 Entanet 1997 Larknet 1998 Freeserve 1999 Fast24 Notes and references references Category Internet in the United Kingdom ... more details
Thomson Local is a local business telephone directory published in the United Kingdom by Thomson Directories Ltd., from its head office in Thomson House, Farnborough, Hampshire . It is the principal rival and for the 1980s and some of the 1990s the sole rival to the Yellow Pages published by Thomson as the Thomson Yellow Pages until it was sold off to the privatised BT Group BT . Thomson Local is a focused local area directory which has continually innovated with features such as colour and knock out white advertisements. It was the first such directory in the UK to contain added value features such as local maps, local guides, and additional useful information beyond the actual business listings themselves. Thomson Directories Ltd was originally formed to publish the Thomson Local in 1980 by The Thomson Corporation after it had sold off its Thomson Yellow Pages business and Dun & Bradstreet , in partnership. After trials in several areas, the Thomson Local was first published throughout Great Britain in 1981. After a series of sales and buyouts over subsequent years, as of 2005 Thomson Directories Ltd is owned by Seat Pagine Gialle S.p.A. of Italy . The directory is still distributed without charge to households in printed form. In the 1990s the company expanded its operations to include its own online directory in the shape of ThomsonLocal.com and a range of partner implementions supplying classified and keyword based listings to companies such as MSN, StreetMap, Pipex and many others and many others. In July 2010 Thomson Local signed a multi year agreement to become the UK s first reseller of adCenter, the Pay Per Click Platform for Microsoft s search engine Bing. ref Media Week, Microsoft nets deal for Thomson Local to sell Bing ads ref . Later that year, the company launched ref Mobile Marketing Magazine. Thomsonlocal.com launches Local Business Search App http www.mobilemarketingmagazine.co.uk content thomsonlocalcom launches local business search app ref the ... more details
About the author and journalist the cellist Nathaniel Rosen Citations missing article date July 2010 Nick Rosen is an author, campaigner and award winning documentary maker. His latest book Off the Grid Inside the Movement for More Space, Less Government, and True Independence in Modern America is published by Penguin Books and was released July 27, 2010. His series of short films about Chinese Billionaires went out on BBC World, and is on the BBC web site at bbc.com oneinabillion His book How To Live Off Grid , published by Doubleday publisher Doubleday June 2007, is a guide to escaping the rat race part of an ecological campaign to change the rules on planning permission via his website http www.off grid.net Off Grid.net started in 1996. He is making a documentary series based on both the books, featuring off grid households around the US and the UK. In the early nineties, Nick became a freelance journalist, primarily writing for The Times and The Guardian . It was during this period that he met Katharine Hamnett and co founded the short lived eco magazine TOMORROW . In 1992, Rosen formed a TV production company, Vivum, and began to make documentaries for the ITV First Tuesday series. In 1992 3 he produced Brezhnev s Daughter , a documentary about the way the Nomenklatura were coming to terms with the new order in Russia. It won Best International Production prize at the NY Film and TV Festival . Rosen wrote The Durlacher Report which became the base document in many of the early Internet IPOs, such as Demon, Pipex and Easynet Citation needed date July 2010 , and followed this with The Net Head Handbook , a satire about the dawning of the internet. In 2004, Rosen produced Sacred Ground, the fight for Ground Zero , for PBS and Channel 4 a film about the battle to build a meaningful memorial at Ground Zero , and in 2006 he produced Britain s Commuter Nightmare , a one hour documentary for Channel 4 Dispatches. His other ventures as start ups was Online Research Agen ... more details
Daily Internet is a web hosting company based in Nottingham, UK and selling virtual private server s, domain names , shared hosting , reseller hosting , online shops and website builder s. History Daily Internet was founded in 2006 by Abby Hardoon, who was previously responsible for establishing and running web host Host Europe PLC incorporating 123 reg, WebFusion, Magic Moments Internet and Dedicated Servers , in 1996. Having grown Host Europe to become the UK s market leader with almost 1 million accounts by 2004, Hardoon sold Host Europe PLC to Pipex for a record 31 million. ref name Netcraft200407 From 2006, he concentrated on developing a new web hosting company from scratch, working with key members of the 123 reg, WebFusion and Dedicated Servers teams to launch Daily Internet in early 2007. ref name Tophosts200704 In early 2009, Michael Edelson became Chairman of the company. The eShop Online Shop building system was added to the range in 2008, ref name Download2008 and the company s Linux shared web hosting and reseller hosting range was augmented through the addition of Windows variants in 2009. ref name Hostsearch200907 ref name Whir200909 Also during 2009, Virtual Private Servers VPS were added to the product range, ref name Hostsearch200912 with further expansion of the range occurring in August 2010. ref name WHG201008 During early 2011, the company continued its expansion into business hosting with the addition of Hosted Exchange ref name PRQuick2011 to its product range. External links http www.daily.co.uk References Reflist refs ref name Netcraft200407 http news.netcraft.com archives 2004 07 23 host europe to rebrand as european hosting consolidation continues.html ref ref name Tophosts200704 http www.tophosts.com articles 005054.html ref ref name Download2008 http www.download3k.com Press Sell sell sell Daily.co.uk launches eShops.html ref ref name Hostsearch200907 http www.hostsearch.com news dailycouk news 8847.asp ref ref name Whir200909 http www ... more details
Inc places a takeover bid against Unipalm Pipex . ref cite web url http www.highbeam.com doc 1P1 3213074.html title UUNET MOVES TO ACQUIRE UNIPALM PIPEX ref 1996 UUNET Technologies agreed to a merger ... nws9605.html X6 title Pipex part of another merger ref 1996 Metropolitan Fiber Systems MFS acquires ... more details
name pipex Alfred had marched into the valley of the Deverills in 878, on his way to victory at the Battle ... Charles Thynne, rector of the parish. ref name gent ref name pipex Monkton Deverill King Alfred ... name pipex The parish register s are now held in the Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre and cover ... more details
Advert date July 2009 Refimprove date July 2009 Thomson Directories , more commonly referred to as Thomson Local is a local business search company based in Farnborough, Hampshire Farnborough , Hampshire , England . They are a subsidiary of Seat Pagine Gialle , and a competitor to the Yellow Pages . Today, business listings are available both in print and online following the launch of ThomsonLocal.com in 2003. 174 editions of the Thomson Local are produced and delivered free of charge to over 22 million homes and businesses throughout the UK. Following the partnership formed in 2006, Thomson Local is the only classified directory that rewards people with Nectar points for calling businesses listed in either its online or printed directory. ThomsonLocal.com is powered by a comprehensive database with over 1.8 million businesses listed and additional content provided. With a variety of online advertising options, as well as being a Google Qualified Company, Thomson Local s tailor made packages help promote businesses to an online audience that makes over 275 million searches a month across its partner network, which includes MSN, Pipex and Skype With its head office in Farnborough, Hampshire, Thomson Local is an Investors in People Champion, with 10 regional sales offices throughout the UK. The head of Thomson Directories Ltd is Chief Executive Officer, Elio Shiavo ref CEO http www.answers.com topic thomson directories 1 ref . Although best known for publishing the Thomson Local Directories and ThomsonLocal.com, Thomson Directories also provide database products through a variety of online and new media products and services. The data is also licensed to a variety of businesses for use in their products and services. Thomson Local also operates a Direct Marketing Services team ref http directmarketing.thomsonlocal.com Direct Marketing Services ref giving small to medium sized businesses the ability to promote their services through direct mail, email and mail shot. D ... more details
primary sources date September 2011 advert date September 2011 Notability date September 2009 Infobox company company name Piccadilly Ticketline LTD company logo company slogan vector logo company type Private company limited by shares Limited Company genre foundation 1968 as Piccadilly Box Office br 1993 bought by current owners br 2000 ticketline.co.uk launched br 2004 name changed to Piccadilly Ticketline LTD founder location 21 31 Oldham Street, Manchester , England origins Moss Empires Stoll Moss Ticketing , Way Ahead Group key people area served industry Live Entertainment products Ticketing technology, Ticket Sales, Ticketing Services, Marketing, Distribution of event tickets and information revenue operating income net income num employees parent subsid owner homepage http www.ticketline.co.uk www.ticketline.co.uk footnotes Ticketline is a primary ticket sales and distribution company based in the United Kingdom which service connects clients to customers by providing a secure platform which can process payments, produce tickets and distribute worldwide. Capability The ticketing solution is hosted at one of Vialtus Solutions formerly known as Pipex state of the art data centres. The data centre is heavily protected against infiltration, fire and power outage. This is an environment where access is restricted, 24 hours a day and 7 days a week. All of Vialtus s Serverbank data centres are carefully constructed with UPS Uninterruptible Power Supplies and stand by generation systems, raised floors, cable management and air conditioning to ensure a resilient location. Vialtus s sites have a minimum of 2 diverse routes entering the data centres at either end of the facility. They have a failsafe full nightly backup procedure in place to Ticketline s data centre environment ensuring that all data is recoverable. Ticketline s core ticketing system also has redundant servers in place which enable them to recover data at any point in time therefore no transaction will ... more details
91 Class diesels to provide it commercial freight services. ref name Pipex The revived PSACR became ... s No.151 and 127 plus an ex sugar estate 0 4 0T, SAR NG UVE2. ref name Pipex http ds.dial.pipex.com ... more details
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