John Lewell

CatchWord, the Oxford-based distributor of online journals, has announced a 30-day free trial of its service for librarians and faculty. Users will be able to receive the full text of over 300 journals from 22 publishers in PDF format. “A key requirement for many librarians is to try out a product before they implement it […]

BT and Boston-based Phase Forward have teamed to pioneer an Internet solution that will quicken the pace of the pharmaceuticals industry’s clinical trials process, the two companies announced Monday. Phase Forward’s Web-based solution InForm, which enables access to authorised users from anywhere in the world, will be the basis for the new service. In this […]

Internet intelligence solution provider Sagent Technology, of Mountain View, Calif., has acquired its distribution partner in the UK for approximately $2.3 million in cash and stock. At the same time, Sagent announced Thursday that it has established distribution partners in Benelux and Spain. Sagent Technology Benelux B.V.i.o will distribute the company’s products in Belgium, The […]

PlusNet, the Sheffield-based subsidiary of the U.S. company Insight Enterprises, has launched a new portal under the F9 consumer brand, while also releasing five new Internet services aimed at small- to medium-sized businesses. The new portal features live news from the Press Association, together with other information that may be customised by the user. The […]

The Wimbledon tennis championships, currently in full flow, are proving to be a showcase for the latest Internet video technologies, with searchable behind-the-scenes video highlights, net-cams and live feeds to entertain fans worldwide. The All England Lawn Tennis & Croquet Club announced this week that it had joined forces with FasTV.com to offer fans “unprecedented […]

An e-commerce survey published Thursday by UK research group NOP and Barclays Corporate Banking claims that businesses are well on the way towards achieving the paperless office, owing to a dramatic increase in intranet activity. During the last year, says the survey, intranet usage has grown by nearly a third, with 55 percent of businesses […]

A new European player in the Internet auction market appears to have global potential — and certainly has global ambitions. At its launch, Belgium-based auctioneer iBidLive N.V. acquired UK-based software developer Articulate UK Ltd and Dutch Internet auction company TAC Benelux B.V., and also owns London-based subsidiary iBidLive UK Ltd. In a statement issued late […]

Officials from H.M. Customs & Excise and the Inland Revenue met business organisations at the newly-formed Electronic Commerce Consultation Forum. The framework agreed at the meeting Tuesday included a plan to “move the discussion forward,” with government pledging that it would cooperate with business in formulating tax policy as it relates to e-commerce. The scope […]

Analysts at research company Datamonitor plc predict that companies will have spent $2.8 billion on e-commerce software by the end of 2002. In a new report entitled “Global E-Commerce Software Markets,” Datamonitor says that 78 percent of e-commerce software revenues will be coming from business-to-business solutions by that time. However, growth in business-to-business e-commerce will […]

PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) issued a warning to European banks in its new report, claiming that not a single institution is prepared for the impact of the Internet. Not since the 1930s has “such a widespread sense of unease swept through retail banks around the globe,” said the report. “Most banks mistakenly see the Internet as just […]

A new management report from UK research company Fletcher Research shows that free access is fuelling the growth of the Internet in the UK. In a biannual poll of 40,000 UK Internet users, Fletcher Research found that two-thirds of home users no longer pay for access. At the current rate of growth, 12.5 million adults […]

Stelios Haji-Ioannou, founder of the discount airline easyJet, Monday opened the world’s largest Internet cafe, named easyEverything, opposite London’s Victoria Station. The cafe, with 400 computer terminals within 10,000 square feet, is the first of a chain of five planned for central London. Apart from its size, the new cafe differs from the many other […]