Beth Cox

Santa Clara, CA-based 8×8, Inc. announced that its ViaTV Set-top Videophone will soon be available in the UK, and the product has also received regulatory approval in Sweden, Austria, Belgium, Italy, Germany, The Netherlands, Switzerland, and Spain. The first public showing of the ViaTV Set-top Videophone in the UK will be at the BBC’s Tomorrow’s […]

Royal Bank Action Direct, the discount brokerage subsidiary of Royal Bank Financial Group, has introduced NetAction, an Internet trading service. Investors can place equity, option, and mutual fund orders at a discount off regular commission fees. NetAction also enables customers to access up-to-the minute company news and information on over 10,000 Canadian and U.S. companies. […]

Sympatico and i/money have entered into an agreement to feature i/money as the exclusive full feature online financial services provider on the Money & Careers section of the Sympatico Web site. The Sympatico site is one of the most heavily traveled Internet destinations in Canada. Currently generating more than 30 million page views each month, […]

ClickThrough Interactive, a leading English-language Web advertising network, signed an exclusive alliance with Soussy.com and its network of French-language web sites, the first deal of its kind in Canada. The alliance will make it easy for ClickThrough’s clients to run national Web advertising campaigns in English and French. Clients now using ClickThrough and Soussy’s networks […]

Online music retailer N2K Inc. and StarMedia Network Inc., an online network in Latin America, signed a two-year agreement to create an online music retailing area for residents of Latin America. Under the terms of the agreement, N2K and StarMedia Network will develop Spanish- and Portuguese-language versions of N2K’s 200,000-title online superstore Music Boulevard, allowing […]

January 21 Entrepreneur Urges Singapore to Lead World in Free Internet Access Electronic commerce will define global trade in the next century, and Singapore can lead the world by making Internet access free of charge, according to Wong Toon King, managing director of Internet firm SilkRoute Ventures. “It will be the cyber-equivalent of our duty-free […]

Royal Bank of Canada is leading the way into a new era of “cyber-syndications” through its agreement with New York-based IntraLinks to offer Internet loan syndication services to clients and investors. Royal Bank’s syndications groups now have access to technology known as IntraLoans for the secure distribution of large loan transactions within countries and across […]

Totally Hip Software, a provider of multimedia software and animated Web content libraries, has signed a new contract with Microsoft to create original animated Hip Clip content libraries for inclusion in various Microsoft products. “This revenue agreement is a considerable extension to the original deal that we signed with Microsoft last summer, and it demonstrates […]

Industry Canada is offering a series of seminars on new media training at several locations across the country. Online learning and training is a rapidly growing industry, and Elliott Masie, president of the Masie Center industry think-tank, identified the following trends: 71% of major US corporations had a 1997 objective of using their intranets to […]

January 13 Japanese Companies Cash in on Internet Access, Hardware Japan’s markets for online access as well as computer network-related products continue to expand with the support of heavy investment in information technology by the private sector. ISP NTT’s Open Computer Network topped the 100,000 mark at the end of November, including roughly 9,100 corporate […]

Excite Inc., in conjunction with e-mail partner WhoWhere?, announced plans today to provide every schoolchild in Britain with a free e-mail address. Part of the UK government’s NetYear initiative, which aims to provide Internet connectivity to every pupil in the United Kingdom by the end of 1998, Excite reports that as many as 10 million […]

Industry Minister John Manley announced funding for over 1,000 new CAP (Community Access Program) sites, in more than 830 rural and remote communities across Canada, representing a federal investment of almost $15 million. The initiative is designed to bring Canada closer to the goal of connecting all Canadians to the Information Highway by the year […]