Re: UKNM: Currant Bun

[Sajid Mohammed]

If anyone read the 12-page pullout in yesterday's super soaraway Sun,

they will have seen that The Sun are trying to dumb down this Internet

thing as much as possible, hence the emphasis on the CD installation -

they even went to the trouble of explaining what a CD-ROM is as they

assume that most of their audience have never clapped their eyes upon

one.


A quick whois on currantbun.com reveals that the nameservers belong to

Telinco, a telco/ISP who have been offering free ISP access for some

time - albeit discreetly. I guess that they are none too confident

about hordes of net-savvy Sun readers downloading the software at work

and getting online at home which is why they've gone down the CD route

to manage demand.


Assuming that Telinco are the prime movers behind this, what does this

say for the coherency of NewsInt's online strategy? ISP/Telco service

from an obscure company that conspicously isn't BT (or

Energis/NTL/C&W) and content partnerships from EMAP (doesn't Rupe own

any mags then, publishing people?) Whatever happened to NewsInt

Interactive/Delphi/LineOne? ;)


I guess this smacks of a kneejerk reaction to competitor activity in

this area...let's just hope the thing doesn't blow up in their faces...


Sajid Mohammed

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