Topic: Coming Up

As a follow-up from releasing the Hero and Villain awards, the Internet Services Providers’ Association (ISPA UK) have now revealed the rest of the nominations for it's gala dinner which will be held on the 14th March 2008 at the London Marriott Hotel in Grosvenor Square.

• Best Consumer ISP
  TBA
   
• Best Consumer Broadband
  Entanet
  NewNet
  Seriously Internet
  Virgin Media
  Waitrose
   
• Best Business Broadband
  Claranet
  Datanet
  Lumison
  NewNet
  PlusNet
   
• Best Business ISP
  Claranet
  Datanet
  Eclipse
  Entanet
  PlusNet
   
• Best Wireless ISP
  BOZII
  Kijoma
  South West Internet
  T-Mobile
  Vodafone
   
• Best Consumer Email
  Entanet
  NewNet
  Pipex
  Vispa
  Waitrose
   
• Best Business Email
  Datanet
  Eclipse
  Lumison
  NewNet
  Zen
   
• Best Dial-Up
  Datanet
  Entanet
  Exa
  Vispa
  Waitrose
   
• Best Internet Telephony
  Entanet
  Keen Computers
  Lumison
  Tesco
  Zen

The Internet Services Providers’ Association (ISPA UK) Hero and Villain nominations for 2008 been released.

These are given to those who, in the ISPA council's view have either helped or hindered the internet industry as a whole. The winners will be awarded their titles at a gala dinner held at the London Marriott Hotel in Grosvenor Square on the 14th March 2008, along with 14 other categories.

This year’s ‘Hero’ nominees, sponsored by UKFast, are:-

• Facebook
  "For respecting peoples’ browsing privacy by retracting the Beacon service, a system which automatically records user’s online spending habits, by making it an opt-in not opt-out service."
   
• Financial Services Authority (FSA)
  "For keeping a keen eye on the promotional websites of financial services and warning that they are not fair or clear enough. A quarter of 77 sites reviewed "failed to present information in a fair, clear and not misleading way", the FSA said."
   
• The Rt. Hon. Stephen Timms MP, Minister of State for Competitiveness
  "For leading the push to increase Internet access speeds, paving the way for services such as high-definition Internet TV."
   
• Peter Robbins OBE QPM, Chief Executive, IWF
  "For his continued leadership of the IWF and approach to fostering extensive partnerships with the Internet industry, the government and law enforcement agencies to tackle illegal online content."
   
• Derek Wyatt MP
  "For a decade of support promoting the Internet in the UK Parliament as chairman of the All Party Parliamentary Internet Group since 1997."

This year’s Villain nominees are:-

• BPI
  "For its heavy handed approach against consumers rather than engaging in constructive dialogue with the Internet industry when dealing with filesharing."
   
• BT Wholesale
  "For changing the whole engineering plan for 21CN only six months before the launch date."
   
• David Cameron MP
  "For buddying up with the music industry and trying to appeal to a younger audience."
   
• HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC)
  "For failing to take the protection of peoples’ personal data seriously and highlighting bad practice in protecting data by loosing computer disks containing confidential details of 25 million child benefit recipients."
   
• Nicolas Sarkozy, The French President
  "For his proposed new tax on Internet access and mobile phone use to fund France's two public television channels, which would be free of advertising."

On a more serious side The Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) Award is given to an organisation created to combat child abuse images and criminal material online.

The nominations for the IWF Award, sponsored by Orange are:-

• Brightfilter
  "For commitment to consumer e-safety by offering ISPs, free of charge, the opportunity to deploy the Brightfilter filtering solution to protect their customers from accidentally stumbling across indecent images of children."
   
• Childnet International – Know IT All
  "For producing a range of excellent multi-media interactive learning resources for children, parents and teachers aimed at enhancing the online experience of children."
   
• Professor Sonia Livingstone and Dr Leslie Haddon - EU Kids Online project
  "For their work to develop a flexible policy framework and further the academic research agenda into how people, especially children, use new media to assist in the formulation of recommendations for child safety, media literacy and risk awareness."
   
• Rt. Hon. Alun Michael MP
  "For his longstanding contribution extolling the virtues of good practice, at home and abroad, of a self-regulatory approach to combating criminal content on the Internet."
   
• Richard Swetenham - Head of the eContent and Safer Internet Unit at the European Commission
  "For his involvement with the issue of Internet content since 1996, drafting the first Communication on illegal and harmful Internet content. He has been the driving force behind a variety of very successful EC Safer Internet Programmes, in particular the development of the INHOPE association of Hotlines."

The Internet Services Providers' Association (ISPA)  has launched this year’s search for the UK Internet industry’s top performers, in association with Epitiro.

2008 marks the tenth anniversary of The ISPAs and will be made up of two divisions, the ISP division and the Special Awards division.

This year’s awards will feature two new categories which were introduced in response to feedback and to give a more accurate reflection of the industry. Best Dedicated Hosting and Best Shared Hosting are replacing Best Business Host and Best Consumer Host.

Entry is open to all ISPs and is free even if they are not members of the ISPA, The online registration is set to close on  the 31st August, so ISPs should go to www.ispaawards.org.uk to select which categories they wish to enter.

The winners will be announced at a gala dinner and award ceremony held in February 2008.

It's that time of year when the Internet Service Providers Association (ISPA) reveals it's Internet Hero, Villain And Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) Awards nominees for 2007.

Ofcom, the EU and Vodafone's Annie Mullins have all been nominated for the Hero award, along with the Home Office's Simon Watkins and ex-Ofcom chief executive Stephen Carter.

For the Villain award those chosen are the US Government, for its online gaming measures, and the British Phonographic Industry (BPI), who forced information from two ISPs about customers who were believed to be illegally file-sharing.

Tne Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) nomination goes to Vodafone's Annie Mullins, who has been commended for her work in the area of child protection online. Bt has also been nominated "for developing and implementing the world's first internet system to block URLs of websites that were publishing potentially illegal child abuse content.�

The winners will be announced at a ceremony in London on 15 February at the Marriott Hotel in Grosvenor Square.

This Sunday is the second annual 'International Internet-Free Day', where people are encouraged to stay offline and get in touch with the 'real world'.

And the strangest thing about the Global Ideas Bank idea is it's supported by an ISP, Bulldog!

So why do we need an International Internet-Free Day? Global Ideas Bank say the world needs the day for several reasons, including;

• Because it's all too easy to miss out on face-to-face interaction with your family, friends and neighbours.
• Because blogging doesn't provide your daily vitamins and minerals.
• Because you've got RSI coming on in your mouse arm.
• Because the real world is a wonderful place.

So there you have it, but somehow we think Sunday won't be that quiet....

ISP Finalists Announced For The 8th Annual UK Internet Industry Awards

The Internet Services Providers' Association (ISPA UK) today revealed the finalists in the ISP Division of The 2006 ISPAs - The 8th Annual UK Internet Industry Awards to be held next month.

The 2006 ISPAs’ judging panel will meet to select the winners in each category.

The long list of finalists are:

Best Dial-Up sponsored by Brightfilter

BISCit Internet
NTL
PlusNet
Tesco
Waitrose

Best Hosting Provider sponsored by VeriSign

Donhost
Entanet
FreeNetName
Keen Computers
UKFast

Best Portal sponsored by mnet

Blueyonder Broadband
Bulldog
Tesco
Tiscali
UK Online

Best Streaming Service sponsored by Bulldog

Global-Mix
Groovy Gecko
Mydeo
RealNetworks
Streaming Wizard

Best Uncontended Service sponsored by Alcatel

Affiniti
Blueyonder Broadband
Internap
mnet
Zen Internet

Best Light Business Broadband sponsored by BT Wholesale

Exa Networks
Kingston Communications
Lumison
Nildram
Zen Internet

Best Light Consumer Broadband sponsored by Caudwell Logistics

Entanet
Karoo
NTL
Tesco
UK Online

Best Heavy Business Broadband sponsored by Huawei Technologies

Demon
Lumison
mnet
PIPEX
Zen Internet

Best Heavy Consumer Broadband sponsored by Axiom Systems

BISCit Internet
Madasafish
NTL
Seriously Internet
Waitrose

Best Sumo Business Broadband sponsored by Hostopia

Be Unlimited
Blueyonder Broadband
Kingston Communications
mnet

Best Sumo Consumer Broadband sponsored by F-Secure

Be Unlimited
Blueyonder Broadband
Karoo
UK Online

Best Business ISP sponsored by Cisco Systems

Entanet
Exa Networks
PIPEX
UKFast
Zen Internet

Best Consumer ISP sponsored by MasterCard

BISCit Internet
NTL
PIPEX
Tesco
Wanadoo

This compliments the  finalists in the Special Division categories which were announced in December.

The winners in all categories will be announced at a ceremony to be held at the London Marriott Hotel in Grosvenor Square on  23rd February 2006.

After the categories were announced back in August, we all wondered who the villain of the year would be in The Internet Services Providers’ Association awards.

Now the nominees have been revealed, and there are no real surprises, but or money is on Sony BMG with it's hacking attempts.
The finalists in the ISP Division are due for release at the end of January 2006 with the awards being presented in a gala dinner on the 23rd February 2006 at the London Marriott Hotel in Grosvenor Square.

As for all the winners in these and all the other categories, we will reveal them when they are announced.

It's that time of year again so The Internet Services Providers' Association (ISPA)  has launched this years' search for the internet industry’s champion performers with it's 8th annual awards.

The 2006 ISPAs will be made up of two divisions; the ISP division and the Special Awards division, it features six broadband categories and this year introduces three new award categories:-

• Best Dial-Up
• Best Uncontended Service
• Best Streaming Service.

The participants in the ISP division will be tested and monitored on criteria including connection time, connection speed, upload and download speed, and DNS response. An independent judging panel of industry experts will then select the winners based on entrants’ value added services such as levels of customer support, the presence of service restrictions and online safety features.

The ISPA Council will select the shortlists and winners of the Internet Hero and Internet Villain categories again this year, but with recent events between some ISP's the villain could be a close run event!

The competition closes  on the 16th September with the winners (a losers) being announced at the awards ceremony and gala dinner will be held in London on 23rd February 2006.