John Lewell

[London, ENGLAND] European mobile Internet company Aspiro announced Monday an agreement with Sweden’s LunarStorm Web community to provide services worth over half a million dollars. Run by LunarWorks, the LunarStorm community has over a quarter of million young members who meet and chat via the site. According to independent research company MediaMetrix it is Sweden’s […]

[London, ENGLAND] Fiber optic operator and Internet service provider Jazztel plc announced Monday its listing on the Spanish “Nuevo Mercado” (New Market). Jazztel completed its listing at the Madrid Stock Market ready for business Monday morning, trading under the symbol JAZ. It is also listed on both EASDAQ and NASDAQ, where it trades under JAZZ. […]

[London, ENGLAND] Global communications group Cable & Wireless announced Friday the acquisition of its twenty-sixth European Internet business in two years — this time Hyperlink Interactive Ltd., a U.K. agency that offers B2B digital e-commerce solutions. The Cable & Wireless strategy of buying small, specialist businesses has brought it a substantial number of experts in […]

[London, ENGLAND] According to an extensive study by ARC Group in the U.K., worldwide revenues from broadband wireless will be worth US $42 billion in five years time. One important finding is that the fixed wireless access market will rapidly expand beyond Europe and the United States to all regions of the world. In fact, […]

[London, ENGLAND] France Télécom announced Thursday it has reached agreement to sell its 50 percent stake in KPN Orange Belgium to KPN Mobile for EUR 500 million (US $440 million). The deal means that KPN Mobile will now own the whole of KPN Orange Belgium, although its right to use the Orange brand name does […]

[London, ENGLAND] The NATO Consultation, Command and Control Agency (NC3A) has awarded a basic order agreement to Manugistics Group, Inc. for intelligent supply chain and e-business solutions. As a result, NATO’s 19 member nations, 27 partner countries, and various governmental agencies will be able to simply issue a purchase order for the solutions, the contract […]

[London, ENGLAND] Unified communications software developer CyberTel, Inc. announced Wednesday it is taking its PURE-PLAY-IP telecom architecture to the U.K. and other markets in Europe. CyberTel has opened an office in London and has appointed Gregory Lee, formerly marketing director of Filter (UK) Ltd., as head of U.K. operations. The market for telecoms provisioning software […]

[London, ENGLAND] Online share distribution company EO plc announced Wednesday an agreement to acquire EPO.com, a similar European operation that enables individual investors to enter the market for primary equity capital. Exact terms of the deal were not disclosed, although EO says it was an all-share transaction that valued its own shares at £1.50 (US […]

[London, ENGLAND] The Web is displacing legacy B2B transaction technology Electronic Data Interchange (EDI), says research firm Forrester — and hybrid Web-EDI solutions will not survive either. Forrester spoke with 40 managers handling EDI activity at large European businesses, and found that a lot of them are putting their faith in hybrid Web-EDI systems. Yet […]

[London, ENGLAND] Software quality specialist Reasoning, Inc. has launched Softbugs.co.uk, a Web site that will act as a reference source on software errors. At Softbugs.co.uk, the focus is on applications built in C and C++ — and is the result of work that has entailed the examination of over a billion lines of code worldwide. […]

[Berlin, GERMANY] Gatrixx AG, Berlin, in cooperation with Multex Investor Europe, London, is launching a new stock information site on the Internet today. At gatrixx.multexinvestor.de, investors can register for free in order to see stock analyses from German and international research institutes, the company reported today in Berlin. Some of the studies can be retrieved […]

[London, ENGLAND] Pan-European business Internet service provider CityReach International (CRI) announced Monday the opening of an IP and IT exchange facility in Budapest, Hungary. The new, 8,800 square meter center will provide services to corporations in Central Eastern Europe. It represents a US $30 million investment for CRI. Dr. Sanjaya Addanki, CRI’s chief executive, said […]