Beth Cox

The recent Bell Canada announcement of free Internet connections for its 650,000 business customers seems like a good deal, but Toronto’s ISPs are not so sure. “Maybe Bell would be better off to focus its efforts on providing better quality customer service to these customers, rather than yet again misusing their monopoly privileges in a […]

Bell Canada is offering up to one year of free dial-up Internet access for its business long distance customers. The offer, valued at up to $685, is available to any business that uses Bell Canada long distance services or switches back to Bell. The free Internet offer comes approximately two months after Bell introduced its […]

San Francisco-based e-commerce solutions provider INTERSHOP Communications Inc. opened sales offices in Sydney and Melbourne, Australia. Driven by growing demand for its e-commerce solutions, the company said it selected Australia as its first subsidiary in the Asia Pacific region. International Data Corp. projects the number of Australian Internet users to increase nearly seven-fold, to more […]

The Toronto-based Institute of Professional Webmasters, a non-profit association “committed to excellence in the Web profession,” has renamed itself The Association of Web Professionals. The newly appointed Executive Director is Dennis Kwasnicki, who announced the new name accompanied by a new mission statement this week. “Our mission is to be the industry-recognized association and certification […]

Toronto-based CYBERplex signed a Letter of Intent to pursue a business combination with Webworks Worldwide of Halifax, Nova Scotia in a stock transaction of 7.5 million shares. The transaction is subject to regulatory approval, shareholder consent, and the signing of a definitive agreement. By combining, CYBERplex will maintain its historical track record of at least […]

CMG Information Services and Sumitomo Corporation announced an alliance to tap into Japan’s burgeoning Internet marketplace via services including interactive advertising and direct marketing. “This collaboration marks a significant first step in expanding CMG’s affiliate businesses into the Asian interactive marketplace,” David Wetherell, CEO of CMGI, was quoted as saying in India’s Web Vision. “We […]

San Francisco-based INTERSHOP Communications, a provider of electronic commerce software, and AOL Bertelsmann Online, the European subsidiary of America Online, launched AOL UK’s first electronic shopping mall. Part of AOL’s Shopping Channel and currently hosting three stores, this solution marks the beginning of AOL UK’s aggressive expansion of electronic commerce in Europe, the companies said. […]

CMGI, Sumitomo In Tie-Up For Japanese Internet Advertising Network CMG Information Services and Sumitomo Corporation of Japan announced an alliance to tap into Japan’s burgeoning Internet marketplace via services including interactive advertising and direct marketing. CMGI’s brands include Planet Direct, ADSmart, Engage Technologies, Lycos, and GeoCities. Sumitomo, the ninth largest global corporation with revenues of […]

Microforum announced that Channelware, a business unit of Nortel (Northern Telecom) has chosen Microforum’s Internet Frontier (IFront) subsidiary to provide programming and hosting services for the Channelware Contract Desk as a Channelware Service Partner. The Channelware Electronic Software Activation (ESA) system is being rapidly adopted by major software publishers as an alternative method of distribution. […]

XcelleNet, a provider of systems management solutions for remote users, completed a project to help Reuters’ European Product Support Department distribute software applications to clients around the globe. “We first purchased XcelleNet’s RemoteWare Express Session Manager and then used their consultancy service to design a tailor-made solution to build a complete web shell around the […]

N2K Inc. signed an agreement with MSI of Miami Corp. to create a European distribution hub for its Music Boulevard online music superstore. Under the agreement, MSI will add up to 150,000 international titles to Music Boulevard’s catalog of offerings, which will then exceed 550,000. The move will make Music Boulevard’s online store the largest […]

February 11 Online Shopping Picks Up in Latin America Latin American companies are beginning to embrace the Internet as a tool for targeting shoppers. In the next two years, the number of Internet users in the region is expected to soar from 8.5 million to about 34 million, according to some analysts. The number of […]