John Lewell

The UK’s leading Internet company Freeserve plc has announced strong interim results, with the churn rate down, and the numbers of subscribers, page accesses and turnover sharply up. For the second quarter ending November 13, 1999, Freeserve reported an increase in the number of accounts by 12 per cent, reaching 1.575 million active registered accounts […]

E-services company ServiceWare has opened a subsidiary in the U.K. Already servicing many customers in Europe including Alliance & Leicester plc, ServiceWare intends the new subsidiary to give added to support its customers and partners. ServiceWare says that its new U.K. company, named ServiceWare Limited, is part of a continued expansion into the international marketplace. […]

European Radio Network (ERN) has launched EuroMix Online, a Web site that provides Internet radio listeners with full access to streamed audio from ERN’s multi-lingual radio station. ERN, part of London-based World Radio Network (WRN), is hosting the new site which has been designed by Adept Web in Ramsgate. Other features to be found at […]

E-mail outsourcer USA.net Tuesday said that it has signed four new Web portal customers in the U.K., Europe, Canada and Australia. The deal will enable the portals to offer e-mail services to their customers, and USA.Net claims the move will help its partners build customer loyalty. The four portals are the U.K.-based hub for mobile […]

Internet telephony provider Net2Phone Monday introduced an Internet Protocol-based phone-to-phone service in the UK. The new service, called Net2Phone Direct, is now available to both business and residential customers. After the UK launch, Net2Phone says it will introduce similar services to Canada, Germany, France, Hong Kong, Australia, and Japan in the coming months. “Net2Phone has […]

A new UK Web site called artrepublic.com launched this holiday period and has won the backing of top ISPs Line One and MSN. The brainchild of gallery owner Lawrence Alkin, artrepublic.com will be trying to gain the attention of art lovers of every description, from the “exhibition junkie” to those who know very little about […]

The UK government has launched the Millennium Centre, a Web site that will provide current information on the status of Millennium Bug problems in the UK and overseas. A round-the-clock information and media centre is being established in the Cabinet Office to keep government ministers, the media and public informed about bug problems and how […]

A new book titled The Age of E-Tail  tells established retailers to “e-tail or die,” but adds that few European retailers have grasped the challenge. “For established retailers, e-tailing is now the only major opportunity for survival and growth in the next decade,” says one of the book’s three co-authors Alex Birch. “The Internet and […]

Keynote this week opened its European headquarters and appointed two top-level executives. Roger Higgins is to lead Keynote’s expansion into Europe as VP of strategic and international sales, while Olivier Carron de la Carriere is to be VP of Keynote Europe. Keynote provides Internet performance measurement, diagnostic and consulting services to companies with e-commerce Web […]

According to the new Forrester Research report released Tuesday, Northern Europe will be alone in significantly closing the gap with the U.S. in the field of e-commerce. Forrester says that Europe’s online business and consumer trade will grow at triple-digit rates during the next five years, and will reach $1.6 trillion by 2004. However, only […]

Teltran International announced Tuesday that it has now fully acquired Internet Protocols Ltd. (IPL), an emerging service provider targeting ISPs in the UK. Teltran said it had paid approximately $17 million in a combination of cash and stock for the UK company. IPL operates the state-of-the-art facilities known as the “London Switch,” together with similar […]

Featuring over 70 retailers on one site, the SafeStreet Shopping Centre launched this week with the aim of helping small UK businesses sell their goods online. SafeStreet Ltd. is a subsidiary of Vicor Inc., a web hosting and consulting company in Redwood Shores, California. It is offering not only the shopping centre but also the […]