Paul Nicholls

[Mississauga, CANADA] Hewlett-Packard Canada has introduced a complete offering of products and e-services for small- and medium-sized businesses (SMB) in Canada. Its new Business Center Web site connects entrepreneurs with other business professionals such as accountants, lawyers, technology experts, marketing gurus and investors for real-time collaboration. According to Evans Research, a Toronto-based market research firm, […]

[Markham, CANADA] Xfera has selected Nortel Networks as the primary supplier of Wireless Internet infrastructure and services for its third generation (3G) Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) network in Spain for an estimated US $935 million over three years. UMTS is designed to provide unconstrained access to information, e-mail, e-business, real-time video and other Wireless […]

[Toronto, CANADA] IBM Canada has unveiled its IBM Small Business WebConnections, a subscription-based, comprehensive Internet offering that provides the hardware, software and services a company needs to exploit the Internet through a single connection. Starting at $179 per month, the new product is enabled by the IBM InterJet, a toaster-sized appliance server that sits on […]

[Toronto, CANADA] Media Metrix Canada has released its latest Total Canada at Home Web Use Report. The monthly report on Canadian Web usage shows that over 12 million Canadians, including 2.8 million Francophones, accessed the Net from home during September. The 12,092,000 Canadians who visited Web sites or used digital media applications such as instant […]

[Toronto, CANADA] Nubase Technologies has released its Trading GoldCOIN Suite 2.1. The new product is a ready-built, brandable securities brokerage system delivering real-time investor-centric services for discount brokerage. Nubase also designed the products in the suite to augment existing full service systems. Trading GoldCOIN is a new class of e-business trading system for online retail […]

[Toronto, CANADA] Hummingbird announced today that its EIP 4 will ship at the end of this quarter. The new product is a next generation enterprise information portal that delivers scalability, administrative capabilities, application integration and collaboration, and an enhanced interface. “Hummingbird EIP 4 delivers on our vision of user-centric computing and enterprise wide deployment requirements,” […]

[Toronto, CANADA] PricewaterhouseCoopers has signed a letter of intent for a technology alliance agreement with PureEdge, a Victoria-based creator of secure, legally binding transactions for e-commerce and a developer of secure e-commerce standards. The alliance will allow PricewaterhouseCoopers to offer PureEdge solutions to potential government and private sector e-commerce clients. Under the proposed deal, PricewaterhouseCoopers, […]

[Burnaby, CANADA] TELUS Corporation and Clearnet Communications have created Canada’s largest wireless company. The companies announced today that all of the conditions of the TELUS Offers to Purchase have been satisfied and TELUS will take up and pay for the Clearnet shares that have been deposited. The TELUS Offers resulted in an overall tender of […]

[Calgary, CANADA] TCT Logistics (TSE: TLI) a Canadian transportation and logistics company, has rolled out its proprietary business to business and customer (B2B/C) Internet fulfilment solutions. The company has developed B2B/C strategies for manufacturers designed to facilitate sales of their products to the Canadian mid-market and direct to customers. It will provide connectivity to a […]

[Toronto, CANADA] The labor-intensive and costly process of finding talent to work in the competitive fields of advertising, marketing, public relations and special events will be significantly improved with the launch of thesixthdegree.com, according to Steve Carubba, the president and chief executive officer. The site is a specialized online recruiting Web site that combines the […]

[Richmond, CANADA] With MDSI’s new eService.com site, service companies can leverage Web and wireless technologies to sell, schedule, dispatch and manage services online. MDSI Mobile Data Solutions (NASDAQ: MDSI; TSE: MMD) is a worldwide solutions provider to the service sector. “With a strong team of partners and our company’s track record of supplying sophisticated mission-critical […]

[Toronto, CANADA] Yahoo! Canada has launched a safe and secure one- stop Internet shopping service that allows consumers to browse, buy, order and ship more than two million products and hundreds of major brands from leading Canadian merchants, all from a single Canadian Web location. Among the more than 25 well known merchants selling online […]