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Alastair Crawford

Alastair Crawford is CEO and founder of i-CD Publishing, the precursor to 192.com.

An internet entrepreneur, he founded i-CD Publishing (UK) Ltd in 1997, which published the UK-info Disk range.[1] He was the first person to publish the electoral roll on CD ROM, which led to a legal dispute with Royal Mail, settled in 2004.[2] The case was mentioned in the book Silent State, by Heather Brooke.[3]

Crawford was also the first to publish a UK directory enquiry site (192.com), and the first to challenge BT's monopoly of directory enquiries.[4]

Alastair lives in London and is an ex-Harrow School student.

References

  1. ^ Fleming, Sean (26 April 2000). "Is this CD the kidnappers' friend?". The Register. Retrieved 18 January 2011.
  2. ^ "Royal Mail loses database claim in 192.com dispute". Out-Law. 17 February 2004. Retrieved 18 January 2011.
  3. ^ http://heatherbrooke.org/books/silent-state/
  4. ^ Cross, Michael (8 November 2007). "192.com's founder raps 'pure greed' of data re-use system". The Guardian. Retrieved 18 January 2011.
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