Paul Nicholls

[Oakville, CANADA] Ford Canada’s Ontario Truck Plant employee Madan Bhardwaj today became the first of nearly 17,000 eligible employees to receive a home computer under Ford’s global computers-at-home program, dubbed “Model E.” Bobbie Gaunt, president and chief executive officer, handed Bhardwaj boxes containing his home computer, complete with color printer, monitor, and internal modem. The […]

[Montreal, CANADA] BiblioMondo launched today after Canadian software company Best-Seller acquired the European company ALS International and renamed it BiblioMondo. The acquisition was financed by Investissement Desjardins, the Royal Bank of Canada, a European private investor, and TechnoCap of Montreal. “With over 19 million users and the largest library network in the world, BiblioMondo is […]

[Ottawa, CANADA] COM Satellite Systems (see: C-COM Launches First High-Speed Internet Cell Modem, November 7, 2000) launched iNetVu Fixed Edition today. The new service is a high-speed Internet service that offers access and corporate virtual private network (VPN) connectivity at ADSL, DSL, and cable speeds via satellite. “The market for high-speed Internet access based on […]

[Sydney, AUSTRALIA] Yahoo! Australia and New Zealand today launched Yahoo! store, an economical option for building, hosting and managing online stores. Yahoo! Store is a combination of an authoring tool and a hosting service where a merchant’s store is built on the Yahoo! server, using an easy point and click interface. There is no software […]

[Vancouver, CANADA] Globetech Ventures (OTC BB:GTVCF) opened TranslationWave.com for business today. TranslationWave.com offers real-time, global translation of 16 languages pairs. To handle anticipated increasing demand, TranslationWave will launch on two new Dell servers as well as a high bandwidth line. The new site provides an online venue that offers conversion of many different languages from […]

[Calgary, CANADA] OnSat.net Canada (CDNX:ONS) has inked a Memorandum of Understanding with Corporations At Work Technologies (C@W) to establish a joint venture, OnSat Hospitality JV, for wireless broadband services including high speed Internet access to the hospitality industry. Starting with Canada, OnSat’s Digital Equity Network and Avaya’s wireless AS 2000 Access Servers have been combined […]

[Ottawa, CANADA] The .ca registry has been successfully transferred to CIRA (Canadian Internet Registration Authority) and is now fully operational. CIRA is a not-for-profit organization mandated by the Canadian Domain Name Consultative Committee to operate the .ca top-level domain. It is responsible for setting policy, managing and operating the .ca domain database, and registering Domain […]

[Montreal, CANADA] Today, Quebec dailies La Presse (Montreal), Le Nouvelliste (Trois-Rivieres), La Tribune (Sherbrooke) et La Voix de l’Est (Granby) officially rolled out cyberpresse.ca. The current news site also includes content from USA Today. Staffed by 300 journalists, columnists, and contributors to the four principal dailies, along with a team of 25 new media specialists, […]

[Montreal, CANADA] Cenosis and Bell ActiMedia have signed an agreement by which KangaCom, a subsidiary of Cenosis, will offer a pay-per-use electronic document exchange service to members of the Bell ActiMedia B2B Bellzinc.ca portal. The commercial launch is scheduled for the beginning of 2001. The new KangaCom service will enable users to quickly, economically, and […]

[Ottawa, CANADA] Deloitte Consulting has been awarded the contract to develop the new City of Ottawa’s comprehensive e-government portal. The firm will join with National Information Consortium Company Canada (NIC Canada), a wholly owned subsidiary of Deloitte Consulting’s alliance collaborator, NIC, to build and manage the portal. The two partners will provide services and infrastructure […]

[Ottawa, CANADA] JetForm Corporation has joined the Siebel Systems Alliance Program as a Premier Software Partner. The alliance will let customers in the public sector and financial services industries extend their Siebel eBusiness Applications by allowing end-users to complete application processes and document fulfillment online. JetForm will apply its e-process technologies to build an integrated […]

[Vancouver, CANADA] Century 21 Real Estate Canada has unveiled a new online mortgage application that allows homebuyers to pre-qualify for a mortgage by simply visiting the company’s Web site. The service is the first of its kind to be offered by a major Canadian realtor. “Our application allows you to apply at any time of […]