Paul Nicholls

The Ottawa, Ontario-based Canadian Payments Association (CPA) Thursday announced its intention of becoming a root Certification Authority (CA) for payments over the Internet in Canada. The CPA says that, as part of its mandate to plan the evolution of the national payments system, it is taking a leadership role to ensure that Canadians can have […]

Cyberplex Inc. has executed a share exchange agreement with the shareholders of Texas-based Saper Media Group, Inc. Cyberplex will acquire all of the issued and outstanding shares of Saper in exchange for approximately 3.5 percent of outstanding Cyberplex shares. The acquisition is expected to take place on or before April 23 and is dependant on […]

NCR Corporation has introduced Canada’s first fully-integrated, Web-enabled Automated Teller Machine (ATM). The new NCR Web ATM combines the features of the Automated Teller Machine with familiar Internet capabilities. The synergy is expected to dramatically change the way consumers use self-service. NCR says that by leveraging the same tools and technologies that are commonplace in […]

The Canadian Association of Internet Providers (CAIP) has filed a second application with the CRTC against Bell Canada. The application asks that Bell Canada file a tariff for the provision of 1 Megabit Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL) Access Service, including separate tariffs for each of the network components and services that form a part […]

More than 100,000 households in the province of Québec are now connected to the Internet through Bell Sympatico. The Sympatico site, whose clickthrough rate has grown by nearly 60 percent in the past year, is the most popular French-language Internet portal in Canada, with an average of 3.8 million page-views per week. According the the […]

Internet Direct, a major Toronto-based ISP, has filed notice seeking relief from the actions of a bulk e-mailer who has been using the company’s services for the unethical practice of sending bulk unsolicited commercial e-mail (BUCE, also known as “spam”). “Our policy is zero-tolerance to BUCE,” said Internet Direct President John Nemanic. “This individual was […]

Bell Canada has become the first telecommunications company worldwide to be awarded the prestigious Web Trust and Ernst & Young Cyber Assurance Seals. The WebTrust program is an internationally recognized e-commerce certification system managed in Canada by the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants (CICA). To obtain the WebTrust Seal, specific parts of Bell’s Web site […]

Cyberplex Inc. is reporting record revenue for 1998. Their 1998 revenue of $9,538,858 is more than triple the $ 3,147,011 logged in 1997. The Internet services company has tripled revenue every year since 1996 while remaining profitable. “We are extremely pleased with our growth,” said Geoffrey Rotstein, the company’s chief financial officer. “This growth in […]

iLogos Corp., an Internet research and consulting firm specialized in electronic recruiting, has published a new report on the state of Internet recruiting in Canada. Achieving Results with Internet Recruiting examines the growing “e-cruiting” phenomenon in Canada and its rapid transformation of Canada’s recruiting industry. According to iLogos, searching the Internet for work is now […]

MetroNet Communications Corp., in a joint venture with Providence Equity Partners, has inked an agreement to acquire a controlling interest in Netcom Canada from ICG Communications for $25.5 million in cash and stock. Netcom Canada is one of Canada’s five largest Internet service providers. Its ISP backbone networks about 40 points of presence (POPs) in […]

Marking its first anniversary, AltaVista Canada has introduced two major new specialty indexes for Canadian Internet users–Canadian News Index and Canadian Government Index. Canadian Government Index contains over a million Web pages from both the federal and provincial government sites and provides users with a single comprehensive source for government related information. Canadian News Index […]

The Canadian Association of Internet Providers (CAIP) wants the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) to make Bell Canada change its retail ADSL activities. “We are asking the CRTC to direct Bell Canada to immediately cease and desist from providing its affiliates with network facilities for ADSL Internet access service.” said Ron Kawchuk, president of […]