John Lewell

eFax.com announced this week that it has launched its unified messaging services in the UK. The move is the first step in a planned global expansion, says the company. First launched in the U.S. in February this year, eFax has signed 1.4 million users, a substantial base for an international launch. “The Internet is rapidly […]

France Telecom this week launched its highly successful international portal VoiLa in the UK, at www.voila.co.uk. VoiLa’s UK launch adds another major market to the 80 million page-per-month portal which has already been introduced to Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, the U.S. and Canada. It first appeared in France in July 1998. […]

Nortel Networks announced Monday that it has launched a single access platform that will enable service operators to deliver converged voice and data traffic to their customers over conventional copper telephone lines. Called Universal Edge, the new managed access product is being offered in Europe, Asia and Latin America, where it will let ISPs sell […]

Sir Iain Vallance, chairman of BT, Tuesday hit back at critics of the telco’s stance on Internet pricing and the introduction of broadband technology. It was time to face economic and commercial realities, he told delegates at the Telecommunications Managers Association conference in Brighton. Sir Iain’s comments were made just as the Office of Telecommunications […]

A new site promises to make moving homes much easier in the UK as of Monday. Named reallymoving.com, it claims its services will help people find properties, hire a solicitor, and choose a removal company among its many other useful services. Founded by managing director Rob Houghton and finance director James Barford, reallymoving.com intends to […]

AOL UK is sponsoring a new web site for child assistance organization ChildLine. The new site for Childline is intended to be the first port of call for children who want information and advice about issues of importance to them. “We believe the Internet is a vital way of helping even more children and young […]

The new e-business consortium business-incubator.com announced Friday that a start-up named nextweekend is the first to use its services. nextweekend aims to help individuals plan their leisure time in ways that were not possible before the Internet came along. It will be a direct competitor to the highly successful travel and leisure site lastminute.com. A […]

lastminute.com has announced that it intends to use student ambassadors to promote its services within universities. It says it will launch its “Student Brand Manager Programme” in January 2000. Students will not have to give up their studies to work for lastminute.com, but they will be expected to conduct research, run publicity campaigns, and organise […]

Energy Efficiency Minister Lord Whitty launched a new Web site Monday that aims to help consumers make decisions about which products are the most energy efficient. The site also contains a wealth of information for retail buyers and other business users. The new site, which can be reached at www.mtprog.com, comes from the DETR’s Market […]

Web currency provider beenz.com Wednesday announced it has inked a deal with Flooz.com, the online gift voucher company. “It makes complete sense for consumers to spend their beenz on Flooz,” said Philip Letts, chairman and CEO of beenz.com. “This deal should send a message to the world that beenz.com and Flooz.com are business partners, not […]

UK business information provider hemscott.NET has launched its new legal portal Hemscott Legal. The new service is intended to facilitate communication between commercial law firms and their major corporate clients. Headed by Pauline Lyle-Smith, founder of the legal DX postal system and a former editor of the Chambers & Partners legal directory, Hemscott Legal has […]

Nortel Networks has launched IP Aware Frame Relay, a technology that provides an integrated solution for carriers and providers who have to deal with many different IP-based applications. The new service from Nortel not only supports IP traffic over Frame Relay but is also Quality of Service (QoS) compliant. It will enable service providers to […]