John Lewell

[London, ENGLAND] European broadband telephone, TV and Internet operator NTL is seeing its shares trade on the New York Stock Exchange for the first time Friday. At the same time, NTL is withdrawing its listing on Nasdaq where it traded under the ticker symbol “NTLI.” The new ticker symbol on NYSE is “NLI” — an […]

[London, ENGLAND] In a report published Thursday, Swedish wireless communication advisory center Northstream has given its backing to EDGE technology, calling it a neglected opportunity for the mobile industry. Enhanced Data GSM Environment (EDGE) is a fast version of Global System for Mobile (GSM) and can deliver data at rates up to 384 Kbps, enabling […]

[London, ENGLAND] The European Commission, which has long coveted a top level .eu (“doteu”) domain, has now said it will be introduced in the middle of 2001. The Interim Steering Group responsible for the matter reconvened a few days ago and has announced a preliminary timetable, although many details remain to be resolved. There is […]

[London, ENGLAND] Neatly demonstrating the mixed attitudes to advertising in Europe, news and information service Ananova Ltd announced a major campaign for 2001 while Internet bank First-e has canceled its forthcoming campaign, according to reports Wednesday. Ananova, which replaced the PA NewsCentre on the Internet in April this year, was purchased by mobile operator Orange […]

[London, ENGLAND] Netscape co-founder Marc Andreessen has taken “intelligent hosting” across the Atlantic with the Wednesday launch of his Loudcloud venture in Europe. Formed by Andreessen with a group of former Netscape/AOL executives in September last year, Loudcloud offers a fully managed IT infrastructure service to support Fortune 2000 companies, application service providers and e-commerce […]

[London, ENGLAND] Fifty top banks and news agency Reuters announced Tuesday the creation of Atriax, a foreign exchange marketplace on the Internet for professional traders. The founders of Atriax account for over half of all foreign exchange dealing in the world, where the market volume now exceeds US $1.5 trillion dollars a day. An open, […]

[London, ENGLAND] Visa International announced Tuesday an electronic wallet service that will enable its issuing banks in Europe to provide secure authentication services to their cardholders. The aim is to cut down on fraud — a major problem in all credit card usage — as well as to build consumer confidence in electronic commerce. “By […]

[London, ENGLAND] Global telecoms group Cable & Wireless and security software specialist Baltimore Technologies announced Monday a worldwide agreement to develop and sell secure e-business solutions. Initially, the two companies will introduce a secure Virtual Private Network (sVPN) solution based on Baltimore’s Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) technology, rolling it out to large corporations in the […]

[London, ENGLAND] Supermarket group Sainsbury’s has announced it is entering a joint venture with wine retailer Oddbins Ltd to launch a direct-to-consumer wine service in the U.K. early next year. The two companies plan to use both digital and traditional channels to reach customers, and say they will leverage Sainsbury’s joint venture with Carlton TV […]

[London, ENGLAND] Autonomy Corporation plc announced Friday a strategic reseller agreement that will enable pan-European consultancy BLUE C to sell Autonomy’s portal technologies to telecoms, financial services and other markets in Europe. The deal comes after the two companies have been working together on various projects, the largest of which has been the creation of […]

[London, ENGLAND] Most U.K. companies have put plans for mobile commerce on hold, according to a new survey released Friday. The survery of 500 U.K. companies, conducted for e-business Expo 2000, Computer Weekly and Compaq, shows that no fewer than 62 percent of them are adopting a “wait and see” policy towards m-commerce, citing a […]

[London, ENGLAND] Translation specialist iLanguage.com is to turn all the content on Germany’s popular Internet events listing site teXXas.de into English and other languages, the new partners have announced. Founded in January 2000, teXXas.de currently lists over 5,000 Internet events on its site every week, in categories ranging from art and entertainment, to computers, Web, […]