Paul Nicholls

Chapters Online has concluded a joint marketing agreement with Canada Payphone Corp. (CPC). Canada Payphone is a public company providing services nationwide installing state-of-the-art AT&T Canada branded payphones, Grapevine Network Terminals, and Interactive Internet Kiosks. Under the agreement, all CPC public Internet kiosks installed across Canada now provide CPCs customers with free access to the […]

Indigo.ca, an online retailer of books, gifts, and flowers, today became the first Canadian retailer to offer wireless shopping capability to its customers. Indigo.ca’s new wireless service, in collaboration with Bank of Montreal, 724 Solutions and Bell Mobility, will be available in early April. “Indigo is committed to making online shopping easy, secure and enjoyable,” […]

IBM Canada President and CEO John Wetmore this week announced the membership and first meeting of the e-business Acceleration Team, a blue-ribbon panel of industry leaders and a follow-on activity for the Canadian E-business Opportunities Roundtable. The e-business Acceleration Team has taken on the mission of creating a sense of awareness and urgency for Canadian […]

According to a recent study by The Boston Consulting Group, Internet users are rapidly becoming Internet shoppers, but purchase failures, security fears, and service frustrations are rampant. Winning the Online Consumer: Insights Into Online Consumer Behavior discloses that 57 percent of Internet users have shopped for, and 51 percent have purchased goods or services online. […]

Nortel Networks and Koor Industries Monday jointly established Nortel Networks Israel in a deal that includes a $140 million asset transfer. As part of the deal, Koor Industries will acquire Nortel Networks’ 20 percent stake in Telrad Networks for US$45 million. Nortel Networks will also acquire Telrad’s business outside Israel in several markets including South […]

stox.com Inc. has unveiled its market data Web site www.stox.com. The new service is the result of 18 months work in building a private network that connects directly to the North American equities markets as well as information and analytic sources. The company will offer a free version of the site providing content from the […]

Excite Canada this week launched its online media property, Excite.ca. Excite Canada was created last June with a 50-50 joint venture partnership Canadian between Excite@Home (ATHM) and Rogers Media, a subsidiary of Rogers Communications. The venture is valued at $30 million. Excite.ca features 15 popular topic areas or “channels” such as automotive, careers, computers, health, […]

Look Communications this week rolled out Ultrafast Internet Service, its wireless high-speed Internet service, to homes and businesses across Ontario. The Ultrafast Internet Service is a 1.54 Mb wireless high-speed service delivering speeds up to 100 times faster than a regular telephone modem. The launch expands upon the service’s pilot availability in Toronto last year. […]

Rogers Cable has now passed the 200,000 figure for Rogers@Home high speed Internet access via cable customers. The growth of this product continues to gain momentum as the following numbers indicate. At the end of December 31, 1998, there were just over 54,000 Rogers@Home customers. Fourteen months later in February, the number stands at the […]

Electronic information provider CEDROM-Sni will provide online access to the entire editorial content of the National Post. This is the latest addition to a number of recent contracts signed by the company, bringing the total number of titles published to its Newscan, Eureka, and Europresse databases content to 50. This development makes CEDROM-SNi Canada’s largest […]

toronto.com, a local portal, has disclosed the results of a recent December 1999 study of greater Toronto area residents using the Internet. The survey results show that just over two million, or 51 percent, of all greater Toronto adults use the Internet each month. Just under half of these adults (47 percent) say they depend […]

Bid.Com International and Research In Motion Limited Wednesday entered into an e-commerce alliance. The companies confirmed plans this week to develop and market products and services that enable secure wireless interaction and e-commerce transactions utilizing Bid.Com’s (BIDS) online auction products and services and RIM’s (RIMM) wireless products and services. The partners will focus on developing […]