Beth Cox

Robert Heyman, the founder of Cybernautics, is joining MSH Entertainment Inc. in Los Angeles to help create what the company calls, “a children and family advertising supported network of sites including a central e-commerce hub.” Jonathan Stathakis, president of MSH, also said the company will leverage its existing technology and assets by taking a leading […]

General Motors is planning a nationwide Internet ad blitz for early next year to roll out its own online car-buying service to go head-to-head with Autobytel.com and Microsoft’s CarPoint, according to an Adweek report. The new service is expected to be called GM BuyPower. Zentropy Interactive in Los Angeles was hired to help with the […]

Real Media Inc. delivered an improved version of its Open AdStream ad server software featuring more than 20 upgrades, including its recently announced Privacy Proxy. The Privacy Proxy acts as an intermediary between Web visitors and third party ad servers. The Privacy Proxy blocks third party ad servers from tracking visitors across multiple sites and […]

Veronis, Suhler & Associates released the 12th annual Communications Industry Forecast, which predicts that advertising spending growth will be paced by a ramp-up in online advertising, from $906 million in 1997 to $6.5 billion in 2002. The forecast does not expect that 1997’s robust growth in communications spending can be maintained, but does not anticipate […]

Seznam (The List), the most successful Web venture in the Czech Republic, is set to launch Server Novinky (The News), a new project that promises to become another popular destination as well as the premium target for Web advertisers. Twenty-two year old college dropout Ivo Lukacovic founded Seznam in 1996. Now owner and CEO of […]

The Amdahl SmartCard Group has enabled what it is billing as “the world’s most technically advanced Mondex electronic cash implementation” in Israel. In a test of the system, Israeli citizens in Rehovet, south-west of Tel Aviv, are using the Mondex electronic purse to withdraw and deposit cash via their own personal ATM machines over normal […]

Valu-net International has partnered with five Canadian Internet service providers and AOL Canada on a cooperative branding, marketing, and revenue program for its recently launched Web-this-Week. The ISPs in the program include GlobalServe Communications, Interlog Internet Services, Internet Direct, i-STAR/PSINet, and TotalNet. Web-this-Week, which was launched earlier this month, is a portal site that works […]

NorthWord A/S, a Danish company that helps Web sites make their content accessible in foreign languages, was acquired by Bowne Global Solutions, a division of Bowne & Co., New York, NY. Bowne Global Solutions specializes in localization of software, CD-ROM, and technical documentation. It currently has offices in 18 countries, including Thailand, China, France, the […]

Entrust Technologies Inc. said it entered into an exclusive distribution arrangement with SECOM Ltd., a $2.4 billion information systems company and leader in the security services industry in Japan. Entrust’s product and technology offerings provide security for electronic interactions through digital certificates and the software to manage those certificates, called public-key infrastructures (PKIs). With its […]

Blue Cross of Atlantic Canada launched a database-driven bilingual Web site built by Internet development company Bowne Internet Solutions. The initial launch is to be followed this Fall by three private sites for the company’s health care providers, group plan administrators, and agents. The site is powered by ME! 4.0, Bowne’s flagship relationship software. A […]

Air Canada customers equipped with Nortel’s Vista 350 telephones can now access up-to-the-minute information on flights, cargo shipments, and frequent flyer accounts from their phone screen. The Vista 350 telephone has a large 5 x 9 cm screen display with audio prompts and feedback. It uses WebConnect technology to provide Internet services through Air Canada’s […]

Internet use among Canada’s small- and medium-sized businesses continues to grow rapidly, according to the most recent survey conducted by the Canadian Federation of Independent Business. “In the two and a half years that we’ve been tracking this issue, Internet access among small firms has more than quadrupled,” said CFIB’s Director of Research Ted Mallett. […]