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IBM RS/6000 ramps up scalability, service and speed for Quik Internet
ISP leverages IBM UNIX® platform for maximum reliability
Technology challenge
Quik Internet, a worldwide franchise of individually owned Quik
Internet ISPs, needed to provide franchise operators with a powerful,
high-performance platform upon which to provide Internet access
to their communities.
http://www.rs6000.ibm.com/solutions/success/quik.html
Surfer's Paradise
Now open: the greatest marketplace of all time. Here's how to
become a Netpreneur.
By G. David Doran
February 2000
http://www.entrepreneur.com/Magazines/MA_Seg
Article/0,1539,267983----1-,00.html
Monday July 10, 9:05 am Eastern Time
Quik Internet Franchise Opens in Central Virginia To Improve
Quality of Internet Services
COSTA MESA, Calif., July 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Quik Internet, the worldwide
franchise of Internet service providers (ISPs), announced today
the opening of Quik Internet of Central Virginia to provide residents
and businesses throughout the area with quality Internet services
through the new local office in Lynchburg.
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/000710/ca_quik_in.html
IBM, Compaq solidarity
By Sonia R. Lelii, eWEEK
July 10, 2000 12:00 AM ET
IBM and Compaq Computer Corp. have signed a pact they claim will
finally make open standards in storage a reality. But observers
and corporate customers aren't so sure.
http://www.zdnet.com/eweek/stories/general/0,11011,2600298,00.html
New Choices For Enterprise Servers
Intel's forthcoming Itanium processor attracts some interest as
a platform for Unix apps
By Tom Farre
May 15, 2000
http://www.informationweek.com/786/unix.htm
Brand-Spanking
The nation's top 50 new franchises
Compiled By Liza Potter
Entrepreneur magazine - February 2000
http://www.entrepreneur.com/Magazines/MA_Seg
Article/0,1539,232777----1-,00.html
Fired Up With 100 million people surfing the Web, there's never
been a better time to get connected.
By Jesse Hertstein
Entrepreneur International magazine - July 1998
http://www.entrepreneur.com/Magazines/MA_Seg
Article/0,1539,228892----1-,00.html
Best Of The Best
You're young. You're fired up. You want a…franchise? We help
you find one that's made just for you.
Todd D. Maddocks
Business Start-Ups magazine - June 2000
http://www.entrepreneur.com/Magazines/MA_SegArticle/
0,1539,274715,00.html
(click on the "ISP Franchise Made Easy"
section of the "In this Article" category or use the following
link for the section of the main article that features Quik Internet.)
http://www.entrepreneur.com/Magazines/MA_SegArticle/
0,1539,274715-4,00.html
Internet Week
Jury Is Still Out On Monterey
March 14, 2000
By MIKE KOLLER
As vendors get ready to release a beta version of
Monterey, which will combine versions of Unix from IBM and SCO,
it could face a cool reception enlisting customers to move to the
operating system.
http://www.internetwk.com/story/INW20000314S0001
Copper chips boost IBM hardware
By Dan Neel
IBM IS HOPING to turn copper into gold with the introduction
of the first entry-level servers to utilize Big Blue's copper-wiring
technology at this week's PartnerWorld 2000 conference, in San Diego.
...Quik Internet, an Internet service provider and Web-hosting company,
recently adopted the model 270 servers, scaling outward from its
IBM H70 enterprise server network.
http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/
00/01/24/000124hncreditcards.xml
IBM: IBM expands relationships and programs to enable differentiated
solutions for service providers; Relationships with Cintech, Cisco,
Red Hat & Chili!Soft to help service providers differentiate
services on both Linux & UNIX platforms
May 31 2000 06:40
http://wl.office.com/search.oc?Path=/document/view&docid=1.tnews.
CMTX152U1772&database=Comtex+Business+Customwire&licensor=
Comtex&words=null
Quik Internet Reopens in South Central Indiana To Improve Quality
of Internet Services
May 09 2000 10:04
COSTA MESA, Calif., May 9, 2000 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Quik
Internet, the international franchise of Internet service providers
(ISPs), announced the reopening of Quik Internet South Central Indiana
(SCIN) today to provide quality Internet services to Bedford, Mitchell,
Orleans and surrounding areas through its new local office in Bedford.
http://wl.office.com/search.oc?Path=/document/view&docid=1.tnews.
CMTX130P7746&database=Comtex+Business+Customwire&licensor=
Comtex&words=null
September 27, 1999, Issue: 782
Low-Cost Servers Invade Enterprise
Mitch Wagner
When it comes to servers and storage systems, small
is getting big. Really big.
IT managers are benefiting from new features being packed into small,
one- or two-processor systems that were once available only on multiprocessor
enterprise systems. They include on-board diagnostics and redundant,
hot-swappable disk drives, power supplies and other components.
http://www.techweb.com/se/directlink.cgi?INW19990927S0002
McService Providers
May, 1999 7.03
No one doubts the success of franchising when it
comes to fries. Now Quik International is testing the Golden Arches
model for the fast-growing ISP biz.
- Ilan Greenberg
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/7.03/mustread.html?pg=12
May 1999, Vol. XIII, Issue 5
Sell Internet Access With a Drive-thru Window - Todd Judd
Erickson
Through its Internet access operation, Quik Internet,
Quik International has Internet access franchises throughout the
U.S. and 14 countries. In 1998 alone, Quik added 63 franchisees.
As of March 9, 1999, Quik added eight more franchises, including
businesses in New Zealand, Australia, Mexico and Puerto Rico, and
planned to announce the addition of its 100th franchise by the end
of March. Quik is projecting to open a total of 100 franchises in
the states and 150 abroad in 1999 alone.
http://boardwatch.internet.com/mag/99/may/bwm100.html
LAN service to save users money
By MARC SONGINI
Network World, 11/22/99
SOMERS, NY - IBM wants to help its enterprise server
users trim a little budgetary fat as the holiday season arrives.
http://www.nwfusion.com/archive/1999/81253_11-22-1999.html
IBM pursues Web, ERP with souped up RS/6000s
By Ed Scannell , InfoWorld Electric
May 10, 1999
IBM accelerated its drive toward the Web and enterprise
resource planning (ERP) server markets by rolling out two four-way
RS/6000 servers, including a clustered, prepackaged model that company
officials claim has less than 6 minutes of downtime per year.
http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/99/04/05/990405hnrs6000.xml
IBM primes RS/6000 for Web serving
New model boasts up to four 64-bit processors.
By MARC SONGINI
Network World, 04/12/99
SOMERS, N.Y. - IBM is readying a new RS/6000 server
that runs Web programs up to 70% faster than its predecessor.
http://www.nwfusion.com/news/1999/0412h70.html
Servicing servers
When the stakes are high, customers expect plenty of support from
hardware vendors.
By Lynn Haber
June, 1999
That difference is key to understanding the high
level of customer service and support IT managers expect from their
server vendors. We're talking the difference between PC file and
print server and a mainframe-class server running an ERP application,
for example.
http://www.datamation.com/PlugIn/workbench/mainframes/stories/
9906DTMserv1.html
Quik's Jack Reynolds Nets Franchise Success
TechWeb News , April 30, 1999
By Mo Krochmal, TechWeb
Quik International began offering Internet connections
in San Juan, Puerto Rico this week -- the newest of its 112 franchises
and the 11th different location internationally.
http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB19990430S0025
April 19, 1999, Issue: 408
Section: Service
Selling Out -- Some ISPs Discover The Benefits Of Franchising
Tyya Turner
…"I don't think you can offer good customer
service unless you're working locally," Reynolds says. He believes
Quik customers value the personal touch that Quik offers them, and
they also like meeting other businesspeople and personal users in
these classes…
http://www.techweb.com/se/directlink.cgi?TLC19990419S0019
April 5, 1999 (Vol. 21, Issue 14)
IBM goes after Web, ERP markets with souped up RS/6000s
By Ed Scannell
…"We bought three H70s to expand our Internet
infrastructure. We did so because we have used the H50 servers since
they were introduced and are pleased with their performance,"
said Jack Reynolds, president of Quik International, in Carson City,
Nev., one of the world's largest Internet service franchisers…
http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayArchive.pl?/99/14/t15-14.14.htm/
Business StartUp's Magazine
March 1999 Issue
Catch The Wave
Grab your boards! Surf reports show the Internet
is where the profits are breaking. These franchise companies can
help you get a toehold for the big swells to come.
By G. David Doran
http://www.entrepreneur.com/Magazines/MA_Seg
Article/0,1539,230005----1-,00.html
FEATURES
Entrepreneur International Magazine
July 1998 Issue
Fired Up
With 100 million people surfing the Web, there's never been a
better time to get connected.
…The franchise's patented software system simplifies the process
of signing up for Quik Internet service; it also operates a data
transmission network that consolidates all the Internet traffic
from its franchises into central servers and maintains the equipment
supporting individual providers. Quik's franchisees share time on
computer equipment that provides user authentication, DNS software,
e-mail, Internet access, Usenet and billing services…
By Jesse Hertstein
http://www.entrepreneurmag.com/page.hts?N=6630
Business Opportunities
Business StartUp's Magazine
January 1999 Issue
Top This
By Chieh Chieng
Nothing But Net
Years spent working as a manager for electronics retailer The Good
Guys gave Kurt Davey the one insight he needed to jump into entrepreneurship
as a franchisee for Quik Internet, an Internet service provider.
http://www.entrepreneur.com/Magazines/MA_Seg
Article/0,1539,229777----1-,00.html
Wednesday June 21, 5:44 pm Eastern Time
Correction -- DAG Media
In NYM028, DAG Media Signs Contract with Quick.com
to Rebuild its Website, moved Monday, June 12, we are advised by
a representative of the company that the contract was signed with
"Quik Internet" rather than "Quick.com" as originally
issued. Complete, corrected release follows:...
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/000621/ny_dag_med.html
Wednesday December 15, 12:15 pm Eastern Time
Company Press Release
SOURCE: Quik International
Quik Internet Bus to Deliver Gifts and Donations to Foster Homes
COSTA MESA, Calif., Dec. 15 /PRNewswire/ --
Quik Internet today announced it will be the primary
transporter in the delivery of donated goods to over one hundred
foster homes in Southern California. Quik is contributing its company
bus to the charity event by The Celebrity Foundation for Children
on Sunday, December 19.
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/991215/ca_quik_in_1.html
Franchises flourish despite long hours, low pay
Many are cashing in stock portfolios to join the growing industry.
BY SUZANNE MARTA, Statesman Journal
Chris Lindgren didn’t set out looking to become
an Internet service provider. The owner of Quik Internet, 3898 Commercial
St. SE, had been thinking of one day opening his own business.
http://news.statesmanjournal.com/single_article.cfm?i=2793
NEWS
RIDING THE INTERNET WAVE
INTO THE 21ST CENTURY
Maple Ridge, B.C. — The Internet is the biggest
revolution in 250 years. B.C. entrepreneur Donald Tuck recognized
its explosive business potential. He also sensed a bold opportunity
with US based Quik International, a privately held and debt free
company providing franchised Internet access services.
http://www.press.quik.com/news/can.html
April 3, 2000
Dick Smith, Quik in Net pre-pay deal
By HEATHER WRIGHT
PREPAID Internet access has hit the market with Quik
Internet and Dick Smith Electronics combining to offer the Web counterpart
of pre-paid mobile phones.
http://www.press.quik.com/news/nz.html
ISP franchises will 'grow'
SIMON HAYES
AFTER years of tipping consolidation in the internet
access provider market, analysts have predicted a growth in the
number of ISPs over the next year.
http://www.australianit.com.au/common/storyPage/
0,3811,1103819%255E1285,00.html
Tuesday, July 27, 1999
ISP invaders stir up market
CONNECTIONS By KATRINA NICHOLAS and KIRSTY NEEDHAM
Two foreign companies, a Singapore company cashed
up with $US50 million ($77 million) raised on the Nasdaq stock exchange
and a US Internet franchiser, have separately made moves into the
crowded Australian Internet Service Provider market..
http://www.smh.com.au/news/9907/27/business/business1.html
Quik off the mark with ISPs
By SIMON HAYES
27jul99
INTERNET franchiser Quik Internet has announced it
has signed its first five ISP franchises, and hopes to add several
more in the next few weeks.
http://technology.news.com.au/techno/4313953.htm
May 24, 1999
Quik franchisee is fighting for visibility
BY MICHAEL CLARK, The Virginian-Pilot
Copyright 1999, Landmark Communications Inc.
VIRGINIA BEACH -- While everyone else is looking
for the next big thing on the Internet, Ned Griffith believes he's
found it.
http://www.pilotonline.com/business/bz0524isp.html
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